About
In Bryce Canyon, UT (photo by Lisa Brideau)
As the title of this site indicates, I’m Kim Werker. I’m a writer, editor, blogger, crafter, speaker and brainstormer. Though I do most of these things out of true love or compulsion, I like to get paid to do them, too.
My current passion is the Mighty Ugly project, through which I facilitate hands-on and discussion-based workshops that help people confront their creative demons, experiment with new approaches to creative expression, and build confidence in what they do. (It’s for all sorts of people, whether they identify as creatives or not.) Go on over to that site to learn more about it, and to see what kinds of awesome ugly creatures people have created in hands-on workshops.
Here on my blog I write about crafts, books I read, and books I write and edit. I like to explore aspects of creativity and creative life, and I have a tendency occasionally to totally geek out about some neat thing or another. So if you’re into these things, or if you’re a fan of crochet or crafts or books or creativity or, like, Buffy or Freaks & Geeks, you may enjoy yourself.
If short-form alerts to awesome stuff are up your alley, please subscribe to my newsletter, Kimagination Station Internet Funtimes. It’s a curated cornucopia of creativity, crafts and cleverness.
As for my past work, I’m proudest of having launched and run the online magazine cum social network CrochetMe.com until I sold the site to Interweave Press in 2008.
From 2006-2008 I was the editor of Interweave Crochet magazine. I’m currently freelance editing crafts books, which I enjoy immensely.
In addition to working on the magazines and co-hosting the first three seasons of Knitting Daily TV, I’ve also written or co-authored six books and I’ve contributed articles or designs to several magazines and books written by other people. And yes, as I’ve told more than one border guard while traveling between Canada and the U.S., these books are published by actual publishers and people buy them. For real.
I have a B.A. in linguistics from Binghamton University (SUNY), my honours thesis for which was about the creolization of pidgins. And I have an M.A. in educational studies from the University of Delaware, for which I performed research on babies regarding some particularities of language acquisition. You might surmise from my educational background that it’s possible to find work you love that has absolutely nothing to do with your past schooling. I love my schooling, and I love not working in the fields I studied.
I live in Vancouver, BC, with my partner, our kid and our dog. In addition to my work I enjoy knitting, eating sushi, dabbling in jewelry making, taking nice long walks in the woods with the dog (sans piña coladas, thankyouverymuch), the smell of clean laundry, and reading fiction of many sorts. I really want to learn how to skateboard, and I love (some) science fiction television.
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As the title of this site indicates, I'm Kim Werker. I'm a writer, editor, blogger, crafter, speaker and brainstormer. Though I do most of these things out of true love or compulsion, I like to get paid to do them, too. My current passion is the Mighty Ugly project, through which I facilitate hands-on and discussion-based workshops ...
Hello
Could you tell me what's the name of the yarn you used to do your “babette squares”
they are so lovely colors!!!!
I'm using Manos del Uruguay yarn; the main variegated one is colour 109.
I've found all the yarns in internet may be I add one blue (pewter 64) and may be the oilsick 34
I'll try next as soon as I have the yarns
In France yarns' detailers have only 5 or 6 colors ot the Mano del Uruguay
I think i'll buy them in England they have all that
many many thanks for this model and this harmony of colors that make me think of
the Italian MISSONI especially the Missoni of the 70's or the beginning of the eightys
When finished i'll put it on blogs with your link
Régine Fernandes
I've found all the yarns in internet may be I add one blue (pewter 64) and may be the oilsick 34
I'll try next as soon as I have the yarns
In France yarns' detailers have only 5 or 6 colors ot the Mano del Uruguay
I think i'll buy them in England they have all that
many many thanks for this model and this harmony of colors that make me think of
the Italian MISSONI especially the Missoni of the 70's or the beginning of the eightys
When finished i'll put it on blogs with your link
Régine Fernandes
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I fell in love with your book and am trying to make ‘Bordeaux.’ I cast on 109 stitches and did three rows to form garter stitch edge. I then went into the pattern. In the second row I realized the stitches are not working out quite right. I have one extra stitch when I get to the end! I have counted and recounted. I have redone it twice. HELP!
Hi! I haven’t written a knitting book, so I’m not sure which pattern you’re referring to. Please email me and we’ll figure it out!
Karrie over at Knit Purl Girl sent me here to comment about the great crochet support and give away.
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I take it from your bio you were born with the name. I scour the innernet for distant relatives. I trace my name back to Jakob Werker who was born in Stolberg, Rheinland Germany in 1830 and migrated to Vincennes, Indiana in 1853. Hi father was named Peter Josef.
Frank Werker