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Best Knitting Needles for Arthritis--Choose From Several Options

If you’re itching to knit, but comfort is an issue due to arthritis, you may prefer knitting needles that are warm and somewhat flexible in your hands versus cold, unyielding metal. Here are the best knitting needles for arthritis nowadays. [...]

Continental Combination Knitting Review--What Is It, What's It Good For?

In continental style knitting, a knitter holds yarn in the left hand like a crocheter. In combination knitting, Annie Modesitt teaches us how to make purls like knits in reverse, which gives them a different stitch mount. I use continental combination knitting. Here are my pros and cons. [...]

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop--Learning Knitting with EZ

Learning knitting can be great fun with Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitting Workshop book. Can you knit a little bit? Are you a little shaky on how to cast on? No matter. If you follow her lessons in this book, you may be charmed to discover yourself a master knitter by the end of the twelfth lesson. How is this possible? [...]

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac--A Great Book For Knitting Lovers!

Subtitled, Projects for Each Month of the Year, Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Knitter’s Almanac charms and enlightens intermediate to advanced knitters. Here’s a woman who was never bored, I’m quite sure. The cover shows what all she created for us. This book is almost a journal of one year of her life because along with each month’s knitting project, we read what else was going on in her life. [...]