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Knitting Without Tears (1971)
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Really, all you need to become a good knitter are wool, needles, hands, and slightly below-average intelligence. Of course superior intelligence, such as yours and mine, is an advantage.
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Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
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One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.
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Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
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Elizabeth Zimmermann
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Born:
August 9, 1910
Died:
November 30, 1999
(aged 89)
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