Jeanette Sloan

Jeanette Sloan is a knitwear designer, tutor, and founder of BIPOC in Fiber. She’s designed for several brands, written a number of books of hand knitting patterns and her patterns have been published in several U.K. knitting publications.  

She's written for a number of magazines including Laine, Making Stories and Knitting where her 2018 article ‘Black People Do Knit’ discussed the lack of BIPOC representation in the fibre community. The same year she began the POC Designers & Crafters list to highlight people of colour working with fibre; that list, posted on her blog, sowed the seeds for BIPOC in Fiber which she founded in 2019. 

In 2020 Jeanette's Beaded Colourwork Masterclass was launched as part of Knit Stars Season 6, the theme of which was to 'Live Colorfully'. While creating the class Jeanette was able to re-visit the idea of using beads to create colourful motifs within knitting; a tehcnique she first explored in 2010 with the Sapa bag. Recognising this as an innovative way to add embellishment to hand knitted garments and acessories she went on to write Beaded Colourwork: A Modern Approach to Knitting With Beads which was published in January 2026 by Laine Publishing.  

Away from designing Jeanette has appeared in BBC television's Make It At Market as Knitting & Crochet Mentor and in 2023 she was awarded a British Empire Medal by King Charles III for services to knitwear design and her work promoting diversity within the fibre arts.