If you don't know what to say, here is the script I shared in the official thread. However, once the sun has risen go ahead and call the DNC at 20, ask for Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Use her title) and they will direct you to her office/voicemail. I know their offices aren't open right now. However, we will do best if they are getting tons of calls as well as tweets, emails, and physical letters. You may have thought a tweet will suffice. I have some beautiful natural wool, Inari from Habu Textiles, that I think might work nice for this one.The push for more debates was yesterday, but I know a bunch of you likely haven't called the DNC yet for some reason or another. My favorite so far is the last one, Camping. I have been looking to a new project, and this might be the ticket. And then 2 others on the same page! I saved all 3. So, today while trolling artound on the Ravelry site, I found a shawl that was a free download and a tribute to the Elizabeth Zimmerman Pi shawl. It was very fun to meet her, and she told the owner of the knit shop that I was the fastest knitter that she had seen. I had the fortune to take a class with her about 10 years ago on slip stitch knitting. Barbara Walker also wrote 4 definitive stitch guides for knitters. I knit in such isolation for many many years, and knew nothing about the books that were available to me.

Two women who changed the face of knitting in America, and people I wish I had known about at a younger age. Today I decided to purchase the current issue of Interweave Knits, as it had a nice article on Elizabeth Zimmerman, and another on Barbara Walker. I have given up all of my subscriptions, as I found them to have less and less of the types of projects that I like to knit. I was in the bookstore, and stopped to look at the knitting magazines. The book The Opinionated Knitter is one I just recently acquired, and it will definitely be my vacation knitting. It was there that I understood why I knit different than most other knitters I knew, and why it was so much faster. My first introduction to EZ was with the book Knitting without Tears, which I read cover to cover immediately and loved. She broke a sweater construction down into easily manageable parts that could be manipulated to fit any body type. Elizabeth analyzed the craft of knitting, researched how old sweaters were crafted and constructed, and popularized the Aran and Fair Isle sweaters in the United Sates. She wrote many books, had TV shows, eventually her own press and knitting retreats.

EZ is credited with revolutionizing and analyzing knitting starting in the 1950’s.

She was born in England, and migrated with her husband to the US. For the non-knitters who occasionally read this blog, let me give you a bit of a background on Elizabeth. Today is Elizabeth Zimmerman’s 100th birthday.

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