quick question.
September 16, 2011
Question to the fiber folk: which living icon/teacher/artisan would you like to know more about? Please pass the question along to others, too. I might be hatching a project....
Question to the fiber folk: which living icon/teacher/artisan would you like to know more about? Please pass the question along to others, too. I might be hatching a project....
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I really like Cat Bordhi. She's just such a frickin mathematical genius and the view that gives her on, say, socks, just bends my mind. In a good way.
Posted by: trish | September 16, 2011 at 09:50 AM
I would love to sit down and talk with Barbara Walker. She is from Philly too.. so I would love to talk to her about growing up here.
Posted by: anj | September 16, 2011 at 10:49 AM
Maggie Righetti. As far as I know she's still alive.
I learned basic knitting from my Mom but Righetti's books taught me the rest. Also I'd like to meet someone who entitled a chapter "buttonholes are bastards". OK, entering sacreligious territory here: they make more sense to me than EZ's books. Righetti actually explained why certain things were necessary or suggested, and I am still a little bitter about that stupid EZ February baby sweater: I STILL don't understand why I had to cast on huge amounts of stitches which created big convex pouches under the armpits.
Posted by: Big Alice | September 16, 2011 at 01:09 PM
Second Maggie Righetti. I do love to read EZ's work, but it's pretty easy to find out an awful lot about her. Maggie, on the other hand, I don't know much about except that almost anything I want to know I can look up in her book. Which reminds me I have to get that back from my sister.
Posted by: Jill | September 16, 2011 at 01:29 PM
Pam Allen. From knit designer to Interweave Editor to yarn company owner she has seen it all in the knitting industry.
Posted by: Lee | September 16, 2011 at 05:25 PM
Sadly, Maggie Righetti is no longer knitting on this mortal plane. Pam's a good one. Do you know where Barbara Walker lives now, perchance?
Posted by: Adrienne | September 16, 2011 at 06:47 PM
I've read the books written by Clara Parkes, she seems to know a lot about yarn and also knitting: http://www.knittersreview.com/
Posted by: MKH | September 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM