Amy Herzog says You Can Knit That, and goes to prove it with a new book by that name, sharing it with us today on the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird.
Amy Herzog says she can’t remember a time she didn’t knit, it may have been in Kindergarten or a little before. She says the story goes that she was very active when she was little was taught as a way to slow down. As a kid, she did sweaters, hats, blankets, mittens and gave up all her making hobbies as a ‘cool’ teenager. She does say her family was a maker family, sewing with grandma, including her prom dress …. a Maker Centric Community. In her early twenties, she picked it back up again. She says she has a couple of knit challenges that make it more fun to create clothes than buy. Modifying patterns to fit herself was a short bridge to designing. Of course, with a technical and computer science background (good at math) it may have also contributed to her making that leap. Amy says she was a fan of Rowan Knits, she often found that she had to size things there to fit herself from those collections. [Read more…]
