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Melanie Falick has written several books on knitting, including an instructional book entittled "Kids Knitting" illustrated by Kristin Nicholas. Falick has been published in many popular knitting magazines.
Kristin Nicholas designs embroidery as well as knitting, so her sweater designs tend to be colorful and sometimes incorporate embroidery over the knitted fabric.
Jean Moss lives in the United Kingdom. She designs knitwear, writes knitting books, and offers international knitting tours. Her designs have great variety, from hats to coats.
Elizabeth Zimmerman (1910-1999)was born in England but later lived in the United States. She was a gifted knitting teacher who wrote books encouraging use of the Continental (German) method of knitting and encouraging knitters to trust their own common sense. She developed many patterns that are ...
Nicky Epstein is a prolific writer of knitting books. She has published many patterns from doll clothes to scarves to sweaters and dresses.
Cheryl Oberle is the author of "Folk Shawls" and currently focuses on designing with hand-dyed and natural yarns. She is also a knitting teacher.
Together is abbreviated tog in knitting patterns. For example, one way to decrease a stitch is to knit two stitches together: k2tog. P2tog is another common instruction for decreasing.
Sl is the abbreviation for slip, as in slip 1, knit 1 (sl1, k1.)Stitches may be slipped as if to knit (knitwise) by inserting needle from left to right with yarn in back or purlwise by inserting needle from right to left with yarn in front.
