Knitting Daily is more than knitting! If your viewers’ passion is yarn, we have you covered with crochet, fiber arts, spinning, and a touch of needlework too.
Join knitting expert Eunny Jang, crochet expert Kristin Omdahl and America’s favorite stitcher Shay Pendray. Viewers are invited to explore the world’s most beautiful fibers, yarns, and tools. They will be inspired to learn how to make the perfect sweater; decorate their home with fiber; needle-felt bags and scarves; embellish knitwear with metal, buttons, and embroider; and much more.
Viewer will meet trendsetting designers and improve or learn new skills.
Join us as we “make time for yarn every day” on Knitting Daily!
Hosts
Eunny Jang - Knitting Expert
A knitter since age three, Eunny Jang is an internationally celebrated knitwear designer and editor of Interweave Knits magazine, a magazine for knitting enthusiasts. Around the office her peers say that she is a knitting prodigy; two of her designs were recently voted into the Top 10 Best of Interweave Knits Readers’ Choice Awards. Prior to her career as editor and co-host, her blog See Eunny Knits (eunnyjang.com/knit), was a must-read for online knitting enthusiasts, averaging 10,000 unique visitors per day. For fun, Eunny cooks, runs long distance, wakeboards, and follows the Yankees. She lives in Colorado.
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Guest experts, Shay Pendray and Kristin Omdahl on the set of Knitting Daily Click on image for higher resolution version.
Eunny Jang, the host of Knitting Daily Click on image for higher resolution version.
Host Eunny Jang and guest Deborah Norville on the set of Knitting Daily Click on image for higher resolution version.
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Shay Pendray - America’s Favorite Stitcher
Shay Pendray was the executive producer and host of Needle Arts Studio, Public Television’s longest-running program on the needle arts. Author of The Needleworker's Companion, Shay is a world-renowned teacher, lecturer, designer, and businesswoman. She has taught more than 150 seminars on embroidery and business for such organizations as Embroiderers' Guild of America, American Needlepoint Guild, Council of American Embroiderers, The National Needlework Association, Canadian Embroiderers' Guild, American Professional Needlework Retailers and International Needle Art Retailers Guild. Shay was awarded the TEN Award in 1997 by The National Needlework Association. This award is presented annually to those individuals recognized for their outstanding contributions made to the needle art industry. Japanese embroidery is Shay’s passion. She has studied the art for more than eighteen years with four different Sensei. She recently had the distinct pleasure of studying with Kiju Fukuda, Living National Treasure of Japanese Embroidery. Shay is one of the driving forces in bringing Japanese embroidery to the United States. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.
Kristin Omdahl – Crochet Expert
Kristin Omdahl designs knit and crochet garments and patterns under her label KRISTIN and distributes her own line of patterns and kits from her website, styledbykristin.com, and to yarn stores. She designs for several knit and crochet magazines and book publishers, co-hosts the Crochet Corner of the Public Television show Knitting Daily TV, and teaches knit and crochet techniques for private lessons and workshops. She creates designs for a variety of yarn companies including Plymouth Yarn, Cherry Tree Hill, and Tilli Tomas plus has had designs in Interweave Crochet, Interweave Knits, Knitscene, Crochet Today, Crochet!, Cast On, Knit N’ Style, plus several books including Crochet Gifts (IWP), Crochet Me: Projects to Fuel the Crochet Revolution (IWP), Vogue Knitting on the Go: Crochet Shawls and Knitted Gifts (Soho), Special Little Knits from Just One Skein (Martingale), and More One Skein Wonders (Storey). She is the author of Wrapped in Crochet (2008) and the upcoming Crochet So Fine (Spring 2010).
