Knitting workshop With Elizabeth Zimmermann

DVD - 2005

Twelve half-hour knitting lessons, from winding the yarn to creating complex sweaters and lacy shawls.

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Subjects: Knitting.

Television programs.
Published: Pittsville, WI : Schoolhouse Press c2005.
Language: English
Other Authors: Meg Swansen, 1942- (-), Elizabeth Zimmermann, 1910-1999
Item Description: Originally broadcast as a series on PBS television in 1981.
Special feature in Part 3: a new audio interview with Meg Swansen about making this series with Elizabeth.
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (DVD)(360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Audience: Rating: Not rated.
Production Credits: Music by Badger Music ; video by Chris Swansen ; DVD produced by Cully Swansen.

disc 1. part 1. Beginnings, a hat (4 half-hour lessons). Winding wool, casting on, knitting and purling ; Gauge and increasing ; Two-color knitting and following a chart ; Decreasing, knitting on d.p. needles and finishing the hat
part 2. Intermediate, two sweaters (4 half-hour lessons). Starting a seamless yoke sweater; body and sleeves ; Uniting body and sleeves, yoke shaping and finishing ; Starting a Norwegian dropped-shoulder sweater ; Assembling sleeves and body; finishing
disc 2. part 3. Master classes (4 half-hour lessons). Seven seamless shoulder shapings ; Garter-stitch possibilities ; Lace knitting; shawls ; Arans, guernseys and fair isle sweaters; an exposition.