Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee, Marion Foale, Barbara G. Walker, Alice Starmore, Sita Murt, Nicky Epstein, William Lee, Shannon Okey, Meg Swansen, List of Knitters in Literature, Kaffe Fassett, Marianne Kinzel, Gwen Matthewman. Excerpt: Alice Starmore ( ne Alice Matheson) is a professional needleworker, photographer and author of books on needlework, born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland . Growing up in a traditional Scottish fishing community with Gaelic as her native language, knitting was one of the skills she learned at an early age, already creating her own designs by the age of five. She decided to make it into a profession in 1975, when she produced a collection which was sold in London boutiques. In 1978, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and travelled to Norway, Sweden and Finland to study their textile traditions. Her books are widely considered to be one of the authorities on Celtic and Fair Isle design and technique. As well as her books, she has written articles for Threads and Vogue Knitting magazines and now markets her own lines of threads and yarn . In 1991 she founded Windfall Press, which started as a specialist publisher and producer of knitting titles but which is now known for its expertise in the design and production of books in Scottish Gaelic. Her professional career has widened from knitting design into the sphere of fine art. Her first major solo exhibition, Mamba, was shown at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis during Summer 2008. She makes occasional appearances at textile and knitting events, including recent presentations and worksops at the official Dutch Stitch 'n' Bitch Day (Rotterdam, 2006) and at I Knit London 's Weekender (September 2009). Her photog...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People in Knitting: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Marion Foale. To get started finding People in Knitting: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Marion Foale, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
68
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155383672
People in Knitting: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Marion Foale
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee, Marion Foale, Barbara G. Walker, Alice Starmore, Sita Murt, Nicky Epstein, William Lee, Shannon Okey, Meg Swansen, List of Knitters in Literature, Kaffe Fassett, Marianne Kinzel, Gwen Matthewman. Excerpt: Alice Starmore ( ne Alice Matheson) is a professional needleworker, photographer and author of books on needlework, born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland . Growing up in a traditional Scottish fishing community with Gaelic as her native language, knitting was one of the skills she learned at an early age, already creating her own designs by the age of five. She decided to make it into a profession in 1975, when she produced a collection which was sold in London boutiques. In 1978, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and travelled to Norway, Sweden and Finland to study their textile traditions. Her books are widely considered to be one of the authorities on Celtic and Fair Isle design and technique. As well as her books, she has written articles for Threads and Vogue Knitting magazines and now markets her own lines of threads and yarn . In 1991 she founded Windfall Press, which started as a specialist publisher and producer of knitting titles but which is now known for its expertise in the design and production of books in Scottish Gaelic. Her professional career has widened from knitting design into the sphere of fine art. Her first major solo exhibition, Mamba, was shown at An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis during Summer 2008. She makes occasional appearances at textile and knitting events, including recent presentations and worksops at the official Dutch Stitch 'n' Bitch Day (Rotterdam, 2006) and at I Knit London 's Weekender (September 2009). Her photog...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People in Knitting: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Marion Foale. To get started finding People in Knitting: Stitch 'n Bitch, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Emma Jane Hogbin, Debbie Stoller, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Marion Foale, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.