The New Editor of Crochet! Ellen Gormley joined Marly on the podcast today to talk about becoming the Editor of Crochet! Magazine.
Ellen began designing crochet when she became a stay-at-home mom after the birth of her first child. She had been crocheting most of her life and needed a way to turn her passion into a business. Since then she has become a contributor on the Knit and Crochet Now! TV show and is now the new editor of Crochet! Magazine. Keeping much of the same feel and tone for the patterns in the magaizine, one of the new things Ellen is going to start introducing is stitch diagrams to go with the patterns! Keep a look out for them starting with the August issue. Listen in below for more of her ideas for Crochet! and her encouragement for new designers (she knows where you are coming from, she was there too!).
Press Release from Annies:
Ellen Gormley, crochet designer, popular blogger and teacher will now oversee the planning and editing of Crochet! She will work closely with Carol Alexander, executive editor of Crochet! and Crochet World. With Carol’s creative vision and leadership, Crochet! continues its legacy as one of the most popular crochet magazines in the industry. “It has been my joy and privilege to work as editor of Crochet! magazine for the past decade. It has evolved into a highly regarded publication, and I’m proud of the respect and recognition it has gained in the needlecraft industry. I know that in Ellen’s hands it will continue to soar and be the best it can be,” says Carol.
Ellen brings a wealth of crochet knowledge and expertise to the magazine. She has been designing and teaching for eight years and is currently one of the crochet experts on the Annie’s television show, Knit and Crochet Now!, which is broadcast on PBS. “I have along history working with Annie’s, and it is a real honor and personal achievement to be coming on board as the editor of Crochet!,” says Ellen. Her debut issue of Crochet! will be the autumn 2014 edition.
Ellen’s designs have been published in Crochet!, Crochet World, Interweave Crochet, Crochet Today and Inside Crochet. Her creative passion for crocheting afghans inspired two best-selling design books: Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workshop and Learn Bruges Lace. Her next book, Crocheting Clothes Kids Love, co-authored with Shelby Allaho, will be released in February 2014. She is also a teacher of two Annie’s online classes: Learn to Crochet and Crocheting With Beads. Ellen Gormley earned a B.A. in art and socio-psychology from the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio, before earning her masters in community counseling from the University of Cincinnati. Ellen began her crochet career as a stay-at-home mom. She has built an active blog and online presence, while teaching at her local yarn store and traveling to speak at the Crochet Guild of America’s Professional Development Day. She served as the mentor coordinator for the CGOA for a few years before continuing to guide and mentor other aspiring crochet designers in the program. Ellen and her husband, Tom, live near Cincinnati with their two children. In her spare time, Ellen volunteers in the school library and enjoys staying fit by running each day.
You can find Ellen: on her blog GoCrochet, Ravelry, and her on-line classes with Annie’s Crafts (the direct links are on her blog). And if you haven’t listened to it already, you can also hear Ellen when she joined the cast and crew of Knit and Crochet Now! with Marly on the podcast in November 2013.
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So glad the podcast is back. Had a great time listening while in sitting home during mini blizzard we are having. One minute we can see out the next you can’t see past the windows. I may need a diagram to find my way to out. Some areas could get up to 5 feet of snow. Love Crochet! Magazine. So happy for Ellen. Looking forward to see what she has in store for the magazine.
Really enjoyed the podcast. I don’t crochet as much as I knit, but I find that diagrams (when clearly done), really make it a lot easier to follow the pattern; in particular when I crochet doilies.
Diagrams make both work and play so much easier.
Fun podcast. Diagrams make me cross-eyed. I have managed a few smaller knit diagrams, but crochet – not a chance.
I love diagrams in crochet – I make mine in Inkscape with Adri’s font. I haven’t learned how to use my crochet editor yet though.
So glad to hear Ellen is adding diagrams to the patterns. As an online subscriber I will find the changes exciting. Hope to see Ellen in NH in July.
I love that the magazine is going to offer both the diagram and the written instructions. I am just getting back to crochet after a long hiatus and just learning how to read diagrams. When I get confused it is nice to be able to fall back on the written instructions.
Diagrams will be a great addition!
Thanks for the podcast. I love learning diagrams, love to see Marly Bird in an edition!
Diagrams make crocheting so much easier. Love the show and glad it’s starting back for another year.
I haven’t crocheted much with diagrams, but I’m really looking forward to using them more; I recently joined CGOA and I just received my first issue of Crochet! a few days ago!
Diagrams make my math-loving brain very happy!
I’m so glad to hear a crochet podcast; they are far and few between sometimes. Thank you for this one!
I haven’t learned to crochet yet, but I do have a Craftsy class to learn. I’m not sure if the class will do anything with stitch diagrams, but I can find out more in the Crochet magazine issue. As always, the show was interesting, informative, and best of all- fun to listen to.
Diagrams are a great idea to help us crochet better.
I loved the show and love love the magazine! I however can not get either the sound to work or the chat room to work on blogtalk radio… I really need someone to draw me a diagram… its either one or the other that does not work for me and a lot of time both.
ahhh I do not know why it put my blog name.. I am Kim 🙂 the computer world is against me lately!
I can read basic crochet symbols, but I’m not sure about full diagrams for things like garments. I’m not sure if the diagram is always front side only or rotates with each row. They’re still a bit of a mystery!
Thanks, Marly and Ellen, for an enjoyable podcast. Diagrams are definitely a great bonus!
I am hoping Diagrams will make it easier for me to crochet. I basically free motion it as it is. Loved this and all the podcasts so far.
I have been crocheting for many years, but have never really learned how to use the charts and diagrams. I am hoping that I will be able to learn how to use them this year. I LOVE the podcast!!!! Thank you Marly!
Thanks for another interesting podcast! I love Ellen’s enthusiasm, and I know she’ll be great at Crochet! Magazine. I’m a big fan of stitch diagrams myself, and I love to find that patterns include them! Happy New Year!