The knitting teacher who freed a generation from slavish pattern following. Through Knitting Without Tears, her newsletters and television workshops, she championed knitting in the round on circular needles and taught knitters to design from percentages rather than recipes, insisting they were thinking people who could work it out. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionKnitting Without Tears (1971); the Elizabeth percentage system; popularized circular knitting 1 Connections
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1. Elizabeth Zimmermann (Wikipedia)
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