20th Century
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1990 - 1999 |
 Zimmermann, Elizabeth, 89, Dies
1999 - July 31, 1999 first Great-granddaughter Cecelia is born four months before Elizabeth's death on November 30th. The new York Times writes "Elizabeth Zimmermann Is Dead at 89; Revolutionized Art of Knitting."
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 Knitter of the Year, 1999
1999 - Knitter's Magazine recognizes Rosemary Marino of Minnesota as Knitter of the Year, 1999, for her work with needy children. Lion Brand Yarns, the Knitter of the Year Award sponsor, presents Rosie with a $1000 prize...
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 KnitU is launched
1998 - KnitU, the Knitting Universe's premier mailing list is launched by XRX, Inc, the parent company of Knitter's Magazine. Amy Detjen, known affectionately as List Mom, reigns supreme in the mailing list community as the KnitU Dean. KnitU brings together the close-knit knitting community from around the world: top designers like Lily M. Chin, authors like Meg Swansen and Sally Melville, hand dyers like Cherryl Potter and Luisa Gelenter, and over 4,500 knitters - beginners, advanced, and somewhere-in-between...
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Rosen, Evie, recognized by Time Magazine
1996 - Knitters hearts quicken a bit when they see Evie Rosen's photo in the June 3, 1996 Issue of Time Magazine. Time recognizes her work with Warm Up America with these words...
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 Great Scot Argyler, The
1995 - Tired of all the little bobbins tangling up when she began knitting Argyles in college, Anne L. Macdonald "put them in a shoe box! I had divided it up
with cardboard strips that I glued to the sides. Then I decided to
get a patent...."
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1980 - 1989 |
 Knitting Around
1989 - Elizabeth Zimmermann's fourth Book, "Knitting Around," and video series appear. "Knitting Around" alternates technique and design with 'Digressions,' Elizabeth’s not-to-be-missed reflections on her life - from childhood in England to the schoolhouse in Wisconsin.
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 No Idle Hands published
1988 - No Idle Hands, The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. Macdonald is published. A historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald expertly guides readers on a revealing tour of history of knitting in America...
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 Knitter's Magazine is published
1984 - Knitter's Magazine makes it's debut in 1984 in the fashion capital of the Midwest, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. "Knitter's has been a wonderful journey for all of us, " writes Publisher Alexis Xenakis in the Premiere issue...
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Knitting Glossary
1983 - Elizabeth Zimmermann's "The Knitting Glossary" is taped.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth retires from Camp
1980 - Elizabeth Zimmermann retires from Knitting Camp.
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1970 - 1979 |
 Knitter's Almanac
1974 - "Knitter's Almanac," Elizabeth Zimmermann's second book is published. With a project and essay for each month of the knitter's year, twelve seamless, tearless knittings serve as the focus for Elizabethan wit and wisdom. The illustrated "Appendix of Possibly Unfamiliar Terms and Idiosyncractic Procedures in the Foregoing Text" is worth much more than the modest price of this Dover publication.
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 Knitting Camp
1974 - Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Camp No.1 convenes in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, the nation's first knitting gathering.
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 Knitting Without Tears
1971 - - 1971 "Knitting Without Tears," Elizabeth's first book, introduces her basic methods of knitting and their application in the construction of seamless sweaters and knitted accessories. Endlessly variable, the sweater designs are sized by the knitter who does simple computations based on chest measurements. If every treader's eyes are not dry, then surely they are bemisted with tears of pleasure, not of frustration.
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1960 - 1969 |
Busy Knitter, Part 2
1962 - Elizabeth Zimmerman's "The Busy Knitter 2" Elizabeth Zimmermann's 12-part television series features the Norwegian Drop-shoulder Sweater.
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 Chin, Lily born
1962 - Lily Chin is born in the Bronx, New York City, on the 3rd of March, 1962, the third child of Chinese immigrants and their first born in the U.S. Lily's mom passes on the love of handcrafts to her (Lily's words!) brat.
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Leapman, Melissa born
1962 - Melissa Leapman is born, the older of two children to Barbara and Herschel Leapman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She loves classical music and studies the piano as a child.
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Eckman, Edie born
1960 - Edie Eckman is born, the fourth and youngest child of Edith and Frank Lindsey in Griffin, Georgia. Lives in the same house all her life, with her maternal grandmother, and next door to her paternal grandparents.
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Busy Knitter, The
1960 - First PBS television knitting series, "The Busy Knitter" airs: a twelve part series on how to knit a circular raglan cadigan.
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1950 - 1959 |
 Wool Gathering published
1958 - Newsletter #1, which is now called Wool Gathering, appears as well as a steady stream of designs in magazines.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth begins mail order business
1957 - Elizabeth Zimmermann knits first US Aran sweater for Vogue Patterns. Byline leads to the beginning of a mail-order business.
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 Mondragon, Rick born; Biography
1957 - Rick Mondragon is born on May 22, 1957, in Alamosa, Colorado, the second child in a family of seven children.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth first editorial
1956 - Elizabeth Zimmermann sells first sweater designs (Norwegian pullovers) to Woman's Day. Big double-page spread.
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Oberle, Cheryl born
1955 - Cheryl Oberle is born, the only child of Ralph and Jane Goughnour, in Denver, Colorado. A precocious child, Cheryl spends all of Kindergarten in the corner - to keep her from 'helping' the other kids doing their coloring.
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Solomon, Leslye born
1952 - Leslye Solomon is born, the second child of Mary and Roland, in Randallstown, Maryland. Loves riding her bike to the knit shop where she quietly sits with the shoplady while all her friends are going to the movies or the bowling alley.
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 Starmore, Alice born
1952 - Alice Starmore is born on the Isle of Lewis, on January 6, 1952, the second child of her Western Isles family. The daughter of a knitter, Alice receives a Wisnton Churchill Fellowship and travels to Scandinavia for two months in 1978. The result of her study, Scandinavian Knitwear, begins a long line of beautiful books celebrating knitting. Today she still lives and works on the wind-swept isle of her youth.
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Galeskas, Beverly born
1950 - Beverly Galeskas is born, the second of five children, to Larry and Elma Allbaugh, in Bellingham, Washington. Raised on a dairy farm, on her first day of school, Beverly is told by her teacher, "Can't you be quiet like your brother?" She's still talking!
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 Khmeleva, Galina born
1950 - Galina The Terrible is born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, the second in a family of three girls to Olympiada and Aleksander Khmeleva. Galina earns her "terrible" nickname later in life, but as a child she loves to play with cats, rabbits, and pick wild berries and mushrooms...
Galina will be posting her biography next week, as soon as she returns from her workshop tour...
In the meantime, you'll enjoy Skaska!
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1940 - 1949 |
 Flynn, Sue born
1949 - Sue Flynn is born on the 17th of April, Easter Sunday, 1949, in Melbourne Australia, the second child of John and Patricia Monaghan and the kid sister to brother Peter. The Monaghans migrated from Ireland Two generations before Sue's father was born and began a new life Down Under farming and breeding sheep.
>>Sue Flynn's wool and designs are available from The Mannings on StitchesMarket.com.
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 Upitis, Lizbeth born; Biography
1946 - Lizbeth Upitis born to Arthur and Dorothea Lewis in Canton, Ohio, the third and last child, ("the spoiled youngest daughter.") Lizbeth learns to knit when a senior in high school.
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 Thomas, Nancy J. born
1946 - Nancy J. Thomas is currently editor of Knitter's Magazine and style director for a number of knitting related books published by Knitter's Magazine...
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 Kagan, Sasha born
1945 - Sasha Kagan is born in St. Albans, Hertfortshire, United Kingdom, July 21, 1945, the first and only child of a Russian father and an English mother. At about the age of four she begins knitting doll clothes...
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 Swansen, Meg born
1942 - Meg Swansen is born to Elizabeth and Arnold Zimmermann in 1942, New York City, New York.
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Bourgeois, Ann born
1941 - Ann Bourgeois is born, the first of three children to Kate and David Shoenberg, in Cambridge, England. Learns to knit when she has an ear ache - eight years later.
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The War Effort
1940 - knitting for the soldiers fighting overseas.
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1930 - 1939 |
Zimmermann, Elizabeth moves to America
1937 - Elizabeth and Arnold Zimmermann are married in England; sail to the US and settle
in Long Island, New York. Summers in Gardnerville, New York. Two children are born: Thomas in 1938 and Lloie 1940.
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Williams, Joyce born
1935 - Joyce Williams is born, the fourth in line of six children, to Josephine and Emil Keil in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Joyce learns to knit as a seven-year-old during the war, knitting for the British military.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth meets Arnold
1931 - Elizabeth Zimmernann meets her future husband, Arnold Zimmermann, who was apprenticing as a brewmaster.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth enters Akademie
1930 - Elizabeth Zimmermann enters the Akadamie art school in Munich, Bavaria.
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1920 - 1929 |
Zimmermann, Elizabeth enters boarding school
1927 - Elizabeth Zimmermann enters boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland
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Fair Isle fashion
1921 - The Prince of Wales wears a Fair Isle jersey at St. Andrews, Scotland (hallowed ground to golfers) in 1921 - and a new fashion is born. Sixteen years later, as Edward VIII he will abdicate the throne for American Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the woman he loves.
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Macdonald, Anne L., biography
1920 - Anne Macdonald, as well as being an historian, is a patent-holding inventor, which gives her a special insight into the problems faced by other mechanically inclined women who rejected - and disproved - society’s antiquated stereotype of helplessly inept womanhood...
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1910 - 1919 |
 Zimmermann, Elizabeth learns to knit
1918 - Elizabeth's family moves to Birchington. Elizabeth is taught to knit "continental style" by Swiss governess; then forbidden to knit the "German" way by British governess.
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth wants to knit
1917 - Elizabeth pesters her mother to teach her to knit.
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 Zimmermann, Elizabeth born
1910 - Elizabeth Zimmermann born just outside London on 9 Aug 1910. Spends summers in Cornwall.
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1900 - 1909 |
 Beads!
1900 - Beads! Big, chunky, tiny, delicate; wood, metal, acrylic, glass; strung, sewn, fused, crocheted, knit: fashion dictates beads.
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 Florodora bags
1900 - Here are elegant, beautiful, intricate bags, knit in garter stitch with beads simply placed between stitches. All shaping comes not through increasing and decreasing the number of stitches, but by the number of beads between them. These bags are simply executed, yet wonderfully conceived, and have a marvelous feel as the beads roll—seem to flow—over the hand...
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