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 -- |
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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. |
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GMD: videorecording. |
Subject |
Knitting.
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Genre/Form |
Television series.
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Instructional films.
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Added Author |
Swansen, Meg, 1942-
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Zimmermann, Elizabeth, 1910-1999.
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Schoolhouse Press.
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Note |
Title on container: Schoolhouse Press presents knitting workshop with Elizabeth Zimmerman |
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Title on disc: Elizabeth Zimmermann's knitting workshop |
Music No. |
shp200 Schoolhouse Press |
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