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Elizabeth Zimmermann
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The knitting teacher who freed a generation from slavish pattern following. Through Knitting Without Tears, her newsletters and television workshops, she championed knitting in the round on circular needles and taught knitters to design from percentages rather than recipes, insisting they were thinking people who could work it out.
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Defining ContributionKnitting Without Tears (1971); the Elizabeth percentage system; popularized circular knitting 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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