Meet Your Instructors
Xandy Peters
Xandy Peters is a knitting designer and teacher, best known as the innovator of the stacked stitch technique and for the Fox Paws pattern. Starting out as a footwear and product designer, he turned to knitting as a way to explore textiles and surfaces without using factory production and has since made a career out of publishing new patterns and teaching workshops.
Xandy has been published in magazines such as Vogue Knitting, Knitscene, Knitty, and Pom Pom Quarterly, has a Craftsy class teaching the stacked stitch technique and continues to self publish patterns monthly. Xandy also posts craft videos and knitting lessons on YouTube and Tiktok and is @xandypeters on Instagram.
Amy Snell
Amy Snell is a knitting instructor and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. She enjoys teaching techniques and stitch patterns that bring color, contrast, geometry, and texture into knitting in new or interesting ways.
Whether teaching locally in the San Francisco Bay area or for knitting guilds and events nationwide, Amy loves to help other knitters explore new techniques and expand the way they think about their knitting. Her goal is to make complex concepts approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that improve your process whether you’ve been knitting for several weeks or several decades.
Amy’s work has appeared in numerous books and periodicals including Cast On, Interweave Knits, Knotions, I Love Knitting and numerous pattern collections. She frequently shares tips and tricks on her website, www.DeviousKnitter.com, and can be found as @DeviousKnitter on social media.
Karen Heitkamp
Karen Heitkamp has enjoyed working in various art forms over the course of her lifetime and currently has a special focus in the fields of resin artistry and alcohol inks. Transforming and elevating everyday items into functional and beautiful art has become Karen’s passion, and she looks forward to introducing her students to her world of color and form.
Resin is a wonderful medium that easily adds color and depth to a wide variety of materials. Alcohol inks can be used with resin or by themselves to create fantastical shapes, colors, and movement. Karen’s special focus is the fascinating flow and mixing of colors obtainable while working resin or ink with heat, air, tools, and gravity.
She has created a wide variety of beautiful items for weddings, corporate events, vacation homes, gifts, and even dog show events. Karen can be found on instagram @resinartbykaren
