Bonnie Davis is Blue Crab Knits, a technical editing service for knitting and crochet patterns. She edits accessories, household items, and children’s and baby wear. She has 60+ years of experience in yarn crafts and 5 years of experience in tech editing. Her previous careers include 15 years as an X-Ray/Nuclear Medicine Technologist and 15+ years in mortgage banking services as a customer service representative. Bonnie is a published writer for both online and in print children’s and adult magazines with credits in fiction, articles about writing, and children’s non-fiction.

Cherie is a crochet designer and editor who cares deeply about helping to create great crochet patterns that amplify the designer's voice and confidence. She empowers designers by educating them through the design process, not just telling them what is wrong in their patterns, but guiding them like a mama bird would her chick.

Work with Cherie: https://sweetbirdcrochet.com/

Follow Cherie on IG: www.instagram.com/sweetbirdcrochet/

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Annie is the force behind www.knitabl.com. She provides grading, editing, schematics, and pattern support for knitwear design.

She actually enjoys working in the spreadsheet mines doing the mathy bits! Prior to editing, Annie worked in biotech, knit and modified over 50 sweaters, and wrangled her then-small children.

Follow Annie on IG: www.instagram.com/knitabl

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Whitney Steen is a tech editor and graphic designer living in Chicago.  After realizing she had 20 years of work experience editing and designing publication layouts in the nonprofit and academic space, and over 25 years of unpaid knitting experience, she decided to combine both of those things into a small business. She is also leading a one-woman effort to bring back crafting blogs through The Blog of Making Stuff on her website, wlsmakesstuff.com.  Let’s get into the interview!

Alison Lee is a registered nurse, knitting technical editor, pattern grader, and sample knitter.

She loves to support designers in all aspects of their publication process, especially by completing the jobs that they don’t have time to do, so they can create the patterns for makers to enjoy.