If you’d like to continue following Kara Gott Warner, here are some helpful links to pick and choose your bookmarks. Kara says about 99% of her friends now are knitters, she hopes to draw from these friends the real stories of the yarn industry. This has 10 episodes up already with guests like Trisha Malcom in the first episode! (Trisha is the editor of Vogue Knitting.) Since then, she’s had Patty Lyons, Norah Gaughan, Stephen Be and Stephen West, Beth Whiteside, Jeanne Carver of Imperial Stock Ranch, which is an impressive list already. The website for the event is at this link, she whetted our appetite for the market place but also the events that are happening during the event like the Gala Dinner Friday night where Debbie Macomber will be speaking and the Crafts and Cocktails evening on Saturday that Kara herself will be hosting.Īs if, with all this, Kara Gott Warner was not busy enough, she began podcasting Power Purls earlier this month. This event is taking place in Ft Wayne, IN, the weekend of October 30th, through November 1st. (Not mentioned: There’s big changes happening there, too, with Deborah Norville stepping in to host.)Īnnies Craft Festival, the first ever event from Annies, hopes to encompass ALL craft as the Publication company does.
Knit and Crochet Now is a tv show that airs in most areas of the US on local PBS stations. In fact in just the knitting category, Patty Lyons, Kate Atherley, Beth Whiteside, Tabetha Hedrick and Kara herself have shared their knowledge with students. Many of the Yarn Thing podcast guests have mention being included in this educational opportunity. Later on, she attended a TNNA and met Michele Fortune, Executive Vice President of Annies, who has become her boss.Īs Editor of Creative Knitting, which is published by Annies, Kara focuses each issue on a central theme, puts out a call for submissions and approaches the designers they work with regularly, plus keeping up with trends in knitting, yarns, fashion.Īnnies also produces video as online classes. ‘Her peeps’ welcomed her, and she realized she wanted to learn more about knitting and design. Kara worked in the garment industry of New York City and found a yarn shop that drew her like Mecca. She lost interest as kids do, until about early 20’s.
Kara says she began knitting at about age 12, it was her grandmother that taught her. All About Annies Craft Festival with Kara Gott Warner made for a SPECIAL Wednesday episode of the Yarn Thing podcast with Marly Bird.
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