I am Kim Werker. Although I’m prone to speaking about myself in the third person, I’m making an effort to keep this site personal and conversational so I’ll do my best to keep things strictly first-person.

I’m an editor, writer, crocheter, and amateur web geek. Along these lines, I am the editor of Interweave Crochet magazine and a co-host of Knitting Daily TV. I’m also the founder and creative director of Crochet Me, the online community dedicated to pushing crochet as far as it will go, and then farther. CrochetMe.com was the start of my whirlwind crochet adventure, although I was never out to make a job of it; I launched the site in February, 2004. Since then I’ve made my career in crochet, and now I’ll tell you a bit about the work I’ve done.

With Cecily Keim I coauthored Teach Yourself Visually Crocheting (Wiley, 2006), a comprehensive, full-colour-photograph illustrated, step-by-step manual of crochet. I also wrote Get Hooked: Simple Steps To Crochet Cool Stuff (Watson-Guptill, 2006), a wildly fun, multi-contributor book geared to teenagers for which a sequel was released in the fall of 2007, cleverly titled Get Hooked Again: Simple Steps To Crochet More Cool Stuff. Also released in late 2007 was a smaller-format companion book to TYV, Crochet Visual Quick Tips. Finally, there’s my baby: the book inspired by CrochetMe.com. Crochet Me: Designs to Fuel the Crochet Revolution (Interweave) hit shelves in October, 2007. A dozen CrochetMe.com designers contributed patterns, and I wrote lots of essays, sidebars, bios, and a pattern for a pair of humongous funny dolls.

I have written for Interweave Crochet, Crochet Today, Knit.1, and Yarn Market News magazines, and I occasionally design funky dolls for publication. My dolls have shown their faces in the aforementioned Crochet Today magazine; and in the books Not Your Mama’s Crochet, by Amy Swenson; and Lion Brand Just Gifts.

I live in Vancouver, BC, with my husband and our dog. In addition to my work I enjoy knitting, sushi, thunderstorms, spinning yarn, skiing only in the best weather conditions, hiking, reading, the smell of clean laundry, sci-fi, and comics. And I really want to learn how to skateboard.