NAME: Eunny Jang

AGE: 24

JOB TITLE: Editor of Interweave Knits, and knitting blogger 

LOCATION: Loveland, Colo.

TIME AT YOUR PRESENT JOB: 3 months as an editor; 2 years as a blogger

 

Describe what you do.

As the editor, I plan each issue. I go through design submissions, develop content for articles and try to build a coherent, satisfying issue four times a year. We’re often referred to as “the thinking knitter’s magazine.” Delivering exciting content every season is something I’m really focused on.

 

What’s a typical day like? 

I work from home, so on a typical day, I’ll grab a cup of coffee and head into my office. I’ll check e-mail and then settle down for the day’s big projects. Some weeks, my whole day might be looking at submissions and putting together potential storylines. Others might be spent scouting models or locations. I might be on the phone with yarn companies or with designers refining an idea. There are lots of days, too, where it’s just me at my computer, reading and editing.

 

What are the perks?

I’m working with designers and writers who constantly amaze me. And I get to think about something I find really and truly fascinating all day long, which is a huge perk.

 

What are the challenges?

Publishing is an intense world. The press cycle for an issue is many months long, so we’re at different stages of several different issues at any given point. It’s a challenge to plan that far in advance and to juggle so many competing ideas and priorities.

 

How did you first learn to knit?

My grandmother taught me when I was 4 or 5.

 

What do you like about knitting?

I love the sense of possibility it has. You start with two sticks, a string and a series of very basic movements, but the combinations, the possibilities, are infinite. The idea that you can sit down and make something beautiful and useful with such humble materials is very appealing to me.

 

When and where do you knit?

I knit all the time. I knit at crosswalks, waiting for the train, walking down the street, sometimes. People are always commenting.

 

Which project are you most proud of?

I’d have to say it would be the first sweater I ever finished, which was only five or six years ago. I’ve been knitting all my life, but never actually finished anything, until that one very simple sweater.  

 

Why did you start a knitting blog?

I started my blog just to have a place to write about knitting. It’s become, though, a place I chronicle experiments and design projects, offer tutorials on all kinds of esoteric techniques and connect with readers and other bloggers. I think that’s the part that surprised me the most, the sense of community and dialogue that comes with the territory.