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Title Knitting workshop : with Elizabeth Zimmermann / a Schoolhouse Video production ; produced and directed by Meg Swansen.

Publication Info. Pittsville, WI : Schoolhouse Press, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD 746.432 ZIMMERMANN DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 746.43 ZIMMERMANN DISC 1-2    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD.
Performer Elizabeth Zimmermann, instructor.
Credits Music by Badger Music ; video by Chris Swansen ; DVD produced by Cully Swansen.
Note Originally broadcast as a series on PBS television in 1981.
Audience Rating: Not rated.
Summary Twelve half-hour knitting lessons, from winding the yarn to creating complex sweaters and lacy shawls.
Contents disc 1. part 1. Beginnings, a hat (4 half-hour lessons). Winding wool, casting on, knitting and purling ; Gauge and increasing ; Two-color knitting and following a chart ; Decreasing, knitting on d.p. needles and finishing the hat -- part 2. Intermediate, two sweaters (4 half-hour lessons). Starting a seamless yoke sweater; body and sleeves ; Uniting body and sleeves, yoke shaping and finishing ; Starting a Norwegian dropped-shoulder sweater ; Assembling sleeves and body; finishing --
disc 2. part 3. Master classes (4 half-hour lessons). Seven seamless shoulder shapings ; Garter-stitch possibilities ; Lace knitting; shawls ; Arans, guernseys and fair isle sweaters; an exposition.
Note Special feature in Part 3: a new audio interview with Meg Swansen about making this series with Elizabeth.
GMD: videorecording.
Subject Knitting.
Genre/Form Television series.
Instructional films.
Added Author Swansen, Meg, 1942-
Zimmermann, Elizabeth, 1910-1999.
Schoolhouse Press.
Note Title on container: Schoolhouse Press presents knitting workshop with Elizabeth Zimmerman
Title on disc: Elizabeth Zimmermann's knitting workshop
Music No. shp200 Schoolhouse Press
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