Makers Nite | Meet Amy Sadler, founder of Knitty

Amy is the editor of Knitty. She's also the publisher and founder of the magazine. In 2002, it came to her in a dream while sitting on her living room couch that she should start an online knitting magazine to feature the knitting talent she'd been seeing on blogs all over the world in one tidy, professional-looking website. And here we are 20 years later. Cool.

She loves really good keyboards, rabbits, quirky movies, tiny collectible vinyl toys and making one very good iced coffee to start every day. She's allergic to wool and sensitive to all animal fibers, so she's the non-wool knitter in the Knitty crew. Amy taught super-relaxing knitting on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for almost a decade, and now is enjoying staying put, saving her travelling for vacation-type relaxation. In 2021, Amy became a pandemic lemming and adopted a rescue dog from Turkey. Sky is Amy's first dog and she is over the moon with love for this magical being. That same year, Amy was finally diagnosed (at 59!) with ADHD which has explained much of her previously inexplicable nature. She blogs about navigating late-diagnosed ADHD and other probably too personal stuff at The Goal Is Now. To see the small collection of patterns she designed when her brain was on a good spell, or read about the lectures she'd love to share with your shop or guild, visit amysinger.ca.

She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, with her husband, Mark, and their two cats, Brody and Tasha, plus Sky, of course.