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WEB EXCLUSIVE!
One knitter gives you an all-access pass to the 2007 Vogue Knitting Tour of Australia and New Zealand with a look at her personal journal entries from the trip.
Read it now.
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SPOTLIGHT:
JUNE HEMMONS HIATT
With copies fetching upward of $400 on eBay, you’d
think someone would want to get The Principles of
Knitting back on the shelves. Its author, June
Hemmons Hiatt, is working hard to do just that. By Cheryl
Krementz
SHIRLEY PADEN:
THE SHAPE OF LACE
In Part 1 of a two-part article, designer extraordinaire
Shirley Paden demystifies the finer points of lace knitting.
LILY M. CHIN:
ARMING YOURSELF
It’s happened again: You’ve completed your
sweater, only to find, when you try it on for the first
time, that the sleeves are grazing the ground. Never
suffer sleeve deprivation again: a perfectionist’s
guide to tailoring sweater arms. |
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MEG SWANSEN:
EZ AS PI
Years before the shawl craze hit the knitting public,
Elizabeth Zimmerman "unvented" her own technique,
showing us again how far ahead of her time she was. Meg
shares with us the story behind this shawl's inception. |
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YARN UPDATE:
BOSS TWEED
Forget the staid tweeds of yesteryear. Today's beauties
boast festive flecks amid jewel tones of great warmth
and depth.
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to read the article. |
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NICKY EPSTEIN:
THEATER IN THE ROUND
Nicky's done it again: She's transformed a simple technique—the
yarn over—into wearable art. The designer's points
on making her head-turning spiral lace.
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here to read the article. |
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VK WORKSHOP:
TRUE TO FORM
By reinterpreting machine-knitting techniques for the
hand knitter, designer Mari Lynn Patrick builds sweater
shapes with savvy structural details. |
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