EZ
if you snoop around in the knitting blog world these days it won't take you long to find someone who is signed up for the "EZ KAL" (that's elizabeth zimmermann knit-along) for those of you not-in-the-know.
and if you are a knitter and don't know EZ then you have some "googling" and reading to do! and you know, truth be told, i have some more reading to do too. i have only one of her books but would like to add more to my library. ( in fact, i've put 2 on my Christmas list!)
elizabeth is not like the knitting pattern writers of today. she doesn't write pattern books with amazingly, inspiring, fancy pictures and photo shoots to die for. with yarn suggestions that make you jump into the car and spend your last pay check at the LYS.
but she writes amazingly informative books filled with real information about knitting. like.... if you were to take a college course on knitting...these would be the books.
my daughter and i were recently talking about EZ and called her the albert einstein of knitting, she's just that smart. you read her, study her, practice her and quote her........for years.
"Is an exciting new improved Christmas every year really necessary? Is it in the spirit of the Solstice? The human heart hankers after stability and tradition. The feeling and atmosphere of Christmases past, the anticipation of those to come, and the magic presence of Christmas now should all blend and blur, to give the distraught soul something to hang on to.... Elizabeth Zimmerman Knitter's Almanac, December chapter
i guess she knew about more than just knitting......elizabeth zimmermann, the woman who revolutionized knitting, died on november 30, 1999.
