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| Author: Elizabeth Zimmermann
Publisher: Schoolhouse Press
Category: Book
List Price: $28.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 71105
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 191
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0942018036
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9780942018035
ASIN: 0942018036
Publication Date: June 1989
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| Customer Reviews:
 Be the Boss! June 13, 2008
Anyone who knits timidly NEEDS to read this book! EZ writes in a very relaxed and informal style. Once you get done reading the book you feel like you could knit just about anything, with or without a pattern--and you probably could! This book teaches people how to turn ideas into sweaters using "recipes" rather than "patterns." You know when you wear one of these sweaters to the next knitting convention that you won't end up being someone else's twin, because she tells you how to put your own personality into the sweater.
A great EZ starter February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book! EZ writes as if you are sitting with her in her living room -- she is delightful to read, as well as brilliant. This is a great first EZ book -- not only does it have a nice variety of patterns, but it also has "Digressions", in which she talks about her life and family. What a treat for any knitter! I highly recommend this book.
EZ Our Knitting Guru December 28, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The comments that have already been written pretty much say it all. She was a fabulous knitter, teacher and knew how to think "out of the box" and this is what she taught her students both in this book and the others that she wrote during her lifetime.
I recommend this book highly for both beginning knitters and for those more advanced. There is always something for everyone in her books.
 Be familiar with Elizabeth Zimmermann before buying this one September 26, 2007
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
While this book does contain several knitting patterns, this is a largely autobiographical book by Elizabeth Zimmermann. If you are familiar with her lively books and "deconstruction" knitting patterns, and find them charming, you will love this one. If you didn't like her other books, you'll dislike this one.
The patterns are about learning to knit rather than following a pattern, and I think makes knitting less intimidating. The patterns cover socks, a fiar isle yoke sweater, dickeys and hats, the moebius jacket, the "Bog Jacket," the "pie are square" shawl, a Norwegian pullover, mittens, and my personal favorite, the Aran coat. Obviously, not a huge number of patterns, but I bought it mostly for Elizabeth's life story and her warm writing style.
keep an open mind! September 3, 2007
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
i bought this book for a friend's birthday and was, at first, really disappointed when i received it. it is published in unprofessional laser-printed sort of way and is a hodge podge of biography, drawings and knitting patterns, some of which are too dorky to wear (eg dickies!) so i didn't give it to my friend and thought i would return it. in looking through it, i found a bunch of ways to improve my knitting designs that i thought it was well worth the price and kept it. if you are the kind of knitter that loves designing your own projects, this is a very useful book. the sweater i was making for my daughter was improved so much by using some of EZ's techniques.
i agree with other knitters that EZ seems like she was an amazing person with a great personality. she didn't take things too seriously and had a great sense of humor about her designs. and i am happy to be exposed to her ingenuity through this book. i'm hoping a bit of her extraordinary inspiration rubs off!
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