About Me

image of Amy Snell wearing a colorful hand-knit shawl

I am a knitter, instructor, and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. I always have a pair (or more) of socks on the needles and a few designs weaving their way around my head. My aesthetic focuses on color, contrast, and texture: I love to explore unusual stitch patterns and clever construction in ways that are challenging but accessible. You can find my designs at Knit Picks, Morehouse Farm, The Louisiana Yarn Guys, Lovecrafts, Ravelry and my own website.

I have been teaching knitting for more than 15 years. I love teaching others to expand the way they think about knitting, whether it’s acquiring a new technique or refining their skills to make knitting more enjoyable and the end results more satisfying. My goal is to make complex concepts accessible and approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that simplify and improve your process, whether you’ve been knitting for several months or several decades! 

You can find me teaching through my own Zoom channel as well as at national events such as Vogue Knitting Live, Stitches, Fiberworld and Rhinebeck. I am occasionally available to present or teach virtually for guilds, local yarn shops or even your weekly knitting group. Email deviousknitterATgmailDOTcom to inquire.

Classes (Two Hours Online/Three Hours In Person):

  • Advanced Fixes: Cables and Lace
  • Adventures in Short Rows
  • Basic Knit Fixes
  • Beyond Basic Brioche: Syncopated Stitches and Knitting Flat Brioche
  • Bobblelicious
  • Brioche Without Breakdowns: How to Recognize and Fix Your Mistakes
  • Bumping Up Brioche: Adding Colors and Textures
  • Cabling Without a Cable Needle
  • Ciao! Italian Tubular Cast-On and Bind Off
  • Colorific Cast-Ons
  • Combination Knitting
  • Cooler Cast-Ons, Better Bind-Offs
  • Drafting Schematics for Better-Fitting Sweaters
  • A Different Type of Stripe: Helical Knitting
  • Exceptional Edges: I-Cord Cast-On, Edging and Bind-Off
  • Fixing a World of Woes with Duplicate Stitch
  • Getting Started Two at a Time
  • Intro to Brioche: Two-Color Brioche in the Round
  • Knitting Stranded Brocade
  • Knitwear Repair: Resurrecting Your Damaged Knits
  • Ladderback Jacquard for Stranded Colorwork
  • Latvian Braid and Other Clever Twists
  • Log Cabin Knitting
  • Marketing 101 for Fiber Artists
  • Mi-Tarsia and More
  • The Magic of Mosaic
  • Mosaic Expanded: Combining Stitches and Creating Your Own Motifs
  • Never Kitchener: Alternative Ways to Graft Your Knitting
  • Next Steps in Brioche: Increases and Decreases 
  • New Directions in Log Cabin Knitting
  • Provisionally Speaking
  • Secrets of Splicing: Up Your Ends Game
  • Smooth Sailing: Jogless Stripes in the Round
  • Sock Doc
  • Sock Skills 1: Casting On for Toe-Up Socks
  • Sock Skills 2: Afterthought Heels
  • Sock Skills 3: Binding Off
  • Sock Skills 4: Short Row Heels with Mini Gussets
  • Successful Sock Knitting
  • Straightforward Steps To Self-Publishing Patterns
  • Sweater Sugery: Cutting and Grafting 
  • Tips and Tricks for Next-Level Knitting
  • Thrumming Along
  • Two-Color Woven Slip Stitch
  • V-Wing Shawls 
  • Vertical Stranding
  • Why Can’t We All Just Get Elongated?

Lectures (One-Hour):

  • ABCs of Reading Patterns and Charts
  • Blocking Without Tears
  • The Design Process, From Inspiration to Finished Project
  • What Makes a Pattern Good for You
  • Savvier Swatching
  • Planning for Perfect Socks

Longer Classes/Series:

  • Advanced Knit Fixes: The Whole Shebang
  • Brioche Grafting for a Seamless Finish
  • Bumping Up Brioche: Adding Colors, Textures and Cables 
  • Christmas Sock-ing Workshop
  • Exploring Stranded Colorwork
  • Plug and Play: Design Your Own Socks
  • Socks Unlocked: Knitting Toe-Up Socks Without a Pattern
  • Visible and Invisible Mending
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