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Annie Modesitt is an American knitting designer and author of many books on the subject of knitting. She refers to herself as a "knitting heretic" because she sometimes defies traditional knitting wisdom in her innovative designs.
June Oshiro is known among knitters for her DNA inspired Double Helix Seaman's Scarf pattern. She developed a chart of cables and bumps that duplicates the design of DNA.
Debbie Bliss is a knitwear designer from the United Kingdom. Author of many knitting books and patters, one of her specialties is knitwear for children and babies.
Lily M. Chin is a Master Knitter according to Vogue Knitting International. She has written books on knitting techniques and designed patterns for magazines and yarn companies.
Inc is short for increase in a knitting pattern. To increase the number of stitches, a knitter may work into both the front and back of a stitch, make loops between stitches, or cast on stitches at the end of a row.
Dec is the abbreviation for decrease in knitting. Decreases are worked by knitting or purling more than one stitch at a time and/or passing stitches over another stitch and off the needles (as in a bind off.)
Cc indicates contrasting color. If a knitting pattern uses only 2 colors, they will be called main color (mc) and contrasting color (cc.) If there are many colors, the pattern will generally abbreviate them as A, B, C, etc.
In color knitting, mc refers to the main color in the project. Colors may also be indicated in a muticolor pattern by letters, in which case the main color is generally "A."
