Introduction: For the love of knitting -- Knitting the first stitch: Learning to knit / Elizabeth Zimmermann -- Her hands / Betty Christiansen -- Learning to knit: Romantic tragedy in four acts / Michael Dregni -- Tales of a knitting neophyte / Kari Cornell -- Knit-surfing the subway / Suzyn Jackson -- Yarn shop and beyond: So begins a fetish / Lela Nargi -- Accidental spinner, or husband discovers wheel / Naomi Dagen Bloom -- Knitting / Jamaica Kincaid -- Bunch of little old ladies / Kay Dorn -- Knitter's jitters: How I stitched my way to wedding day bliss / Margret Aldrich -- Amelia / Melanie Falick -- Afghan / Amy Votava -- Art of knitting: Knit gallery: Search for a proper place among the arts / Teva Durham -- Ode to the knit stitch / Pam Allen -- Dreaming of dragons / Susan Gordon Lydon -- Knitting socks for the revolution / Sigrid Arnott -- Our knitting heritage: When knitting was a manly art / Clinton W. Trowbridge -- Lifetime of knitting / Denyse Specktor -- Knitting camp.
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