Wikipedia Search

My first search took me to many places and topics from Genealogy to Medicine... and finally to my favorite knitter. Elizabeth Zimmerman a British born knitter who pioneered many innovative methods in knitting. She popularized circular knitting in America, a method that eliminates many seams in garments that are basically knit all in one piece as opposed to knitting all the components of a sweater (front, back, sleeves, collar etc.) and then sewing them together, which in my opinion is the most tedious part of a project. A beautifully knit garment can be ruined by an inexperienced or haphazard way of putting it all together. Elizabeth also advocated "continental knitting" one of the fastest ways to knit, that sadly I have never been able to master. She developed EPS "Elizabeth's Percentage System" which is an ingenuous mathematical formula to predetermine how many stitches to create a particular size garment. Elizabeth died in 1999 at the age of 89, and I believe she probably had needles and yarn in hand at the time. She wrote many helpful books Knitting without Tears, Knitting Workshop and the Opinionated Knitter to name a few. For all the knitters out there, if you ever decide to tackle one of her wonderful patterns, please call me if you get stuck. Her motto that lives on is "Knit on with confidence and hope, through all crises".