DVDs

Lucy Neatby: A Knitter’s Companion – Knitting Essentials 1
“Take Lucy Home!”. Well produced: Lucy’s hands and the needles take centre stage with nothing to detract from the work in progress. Learn new techniques and how to use them to improve your work. Knitting Essentials 1 contains The Secrets of Contented Stitches;Stitch mount and the significance of the direction of throwing the yarn around the needle; Reading the knitting ; Bind-Off Methods ; Cast-On Methods ; Decreases ; Finishing Basics ; Gauge Matters ; Increases ; Useful Miscellanea. 
£16.99

Real Men Knit. Region 1 DVD. Running time approx 92 minutes. Includes: • conversations with legendary knitters Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably • instructions for knitting a hat with Eugene Bourgeois • Interviews with male knitters across North America who explain why more men should knit • A brief history of men and knitting. £13.00

Lucy Neatby's A Knitting Companion Series: Intarsia Untangled 1: “Tame the monster – let Lucy be your guide!”. Take the stress out of intarsia knitting. Learn how to tackle the first few rows, how to read charts, how to reduce the tangle that your yarns get into, and how to finish off. Learn how to maximise the number of ends that may be knitted in, and make the best use of those tails that do need to be darned in. Also included are a number of cool rescue techniques. Running time 2 hours 27 minutes. Region 1 DVD £16.00

Lucy Neatby's A Knitter's Companion Series: Intarsia Untangled 2: “The odyssey continues!”. Now you can enjoy intarsia, learn some sophisticated skills to help you tackle special situations: long horizontal colour jumps without breaking the yarn or having to think ahead, as well as a selection of slick tricks to make life easier. Explore textured stitches within colour blocks, sculpted shapes and how to analyse patterns to see what lies ahead. Running time 2 hours 22 minutes. Region 1 DVD £16.00

Lucy Neatby's A Knitter's Companion Series: Finesse your Knitting 2 “Sublime finishing details for the connoisseur.“ Expert shoulder shapings and various joins, setting in fitted sleeve heads with ease. Experience the exquisite joys of double bands: knitting up the stitches (right first time every time), equalising the two sides, adding shaping to the corners of the bands, reversing for the inner layer and how these principles may be applied to neck and armbands. Running time 2 hours 17 minutes. Region 1 DVD £16.00

Meg Swansen’s Shawl Collared Vest. This attractive garment is suitable for men and women, It looks great over a blouse, shirt or turtleneck sweater and can also provide an extra layer on top of a sweater or jacket. The techniques demonstrated include: • K1b, P1 rib • Increasing • Cable with or without a cable needle • Kangaroo pouches • Steeks • V-neck shaping • Knitting-Back-Backwards • Machine-stitched steeks • I-cord cast off • 3-needle I-cord cast off • Shawl collar shaping • Reversible phoney seams • I-Cord tab buttonholes. Running time 1 hour. Region 1 DVD £14.00

Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Rib Warmer with Meg Swansen. Running time 1 hour 45 minutes. This design of EZ's is as classic as her Baby Surprise Jacket. The DVD will show you numerous variations including a Child's Ribwarmer, Meg's Knee-Length Ribwarmer and EZ's Butterfly Jacket (available in the 50th Anniversary issue of Wool Gathering which we now stock) from a 1956 issue of McCall's Needlecraft. The classic ribwarmer is a utilitarian and attractive garment (Meg wears hers almost daily in winter), the knee length version is a warm, long over-layer and the butterfly is sleek and graceful. Techniques shown include: Invisible cast on, increasing, short rows, garter-stitch weaving, after-thought pockets, EZ's applied I-cord, 3-Needle I-Cord Cast Off, Reversible Phoney Seams, Sport-Jacket Vent. £19.75

Meg Swansen’s Fair Isle Vest. Running time 82 minutes. Filmed on location on beautiful Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, this takes you through the construction of a classic Fair Isle vest, knitted in the round. Meg shows in detail: two types of casting on; corrugated rib; two-colour knitting; kangaroo pouches; shaped armholes; v-neck shaping; knitting-back-backwards; machine-stitched steeks; woven shoulders; pick-up ratio for neck border; neatening; final blocking. £19.75

Spiral Yoke with Meg Swansen — from the book Handknitting with Meg Swansen. Running time 60 minutes. This circular seamless pullover, based on Elizabeth Zimmermann's Percentage System (EPS), is elegant in appearance and a pleasure to knit. Choose either the Travelling Stitch motif used in the adult version, or a two-color yoke shown in the child's model. Along with the garment construction, you will see: two kinds of cast on, phoney seams, hems, short rows & wrapping, knitting back backwards, mirror-image increases, travelling stitch, weaving, and sewn casting off. £14.00

Knitting Workshop with Elizabeth Zimmermann. This is a new DVD of Elizabeth Zimmermann’s 1981 six-hour American TV series in 3 parts: Part 1 - Beginnings, from making a centre-pull ball to knitting a hat in the round; Part 2 - Intermediate: knit a seamless yoke sweater and a colour-patterned drop shoulder sweater; Part 3 - Master Class: Elizabeth discusses examples of traditional Fair Isle and Guernsey knitting as well as garter stitch and lace. Part 3 includes a new interview with Elizabeth’s daughter Meg Swansen about making the series. £27.95

Meg Swansen's Russian Prime all-over pattern sweater knitted in the round. The techniques shown include: long-tail cast one; side panels; increasing in pattern; steeks at armholes and neck; knitting up in pattern; I-Cord shoulder seam; top of sleeve decreasing; corrugated rib; “casting-on” method of casting off; applied I-Cord. Includes two excerpts from A Knitting Glossary DVD showing: centring a colour pattern and two-colour knitting. 
£14.00

Mimbres Vest with Meg Swansen. Region 1 DVD. Running time 60 minutes This is an all-over patterned waistcoat worked on circular needles from the lower edge to the armhole where steeks are established. Continue to the base of the scooped neck, insert another steek, then work up to the shoulders. The shoulders are joined, the steeks are machine-stitched and cut, I-cord borders are knitted directly onto the edges of the armholes and all round the periphery of the vest. Filmed on location in New Mexico and Arizona. The techniques demonstrated include: • Long-tail cast on • Following a chart • Trapping the carried colour • Kangaroo pouches • Steeks • Machine stitching and cutting • 3-needle I-cord cast off • EZ’s applied I-cord • Neatening the cut edges • Blocking. £14.00

Knitting Lace with Meg Swansen. Three Lace Shawls to knit along with Meg (1) a long reversible stole with a perpendicular lace border; (2) a Mañanita or Lace Poncho, knitted in the round from the centre to a crocheted edging; (3) A neck-scarf version of a traditional triangular Faroese shawl with its centre gusset, narrowing selvedges and shoulder shaping. 120 minutes running time. £19.75

Meg Swansen’s Guernsey Pullover Filmed along the spectacular Oregon coast, this Knitting Vacation takes you step by step through the construction of a traditional Guernsey knitted in the round to the underarms, then worked flat to the shoulders – eliminating the need to cut . Learn: • Channel Island cast on • Split lower garter stitch welt • Indian Corn stitch • Gussets • Texture patterns • Horizontal shaped shoulder straps • Garter stitch weaving • Picking up stitches round armholes • Decreasing to cuffs EZ’s sewn cast off £14.00

Lucy Neatby: A Knitter’s Companion – Knitting Essentials 2
“Take Lucy Home!”. Well produced: Lucy’s hands and the needles take centre stage with nothing to detract from the work in progress. Learn new techniques and how to use them to improve your work. Knitting Essentials 2 includes More Bind-Off Methods; More Cast-On Methods ; Circular Needles ; Cutting Your Knitting ; More Finishing Basics ; Grafting ; Garment Gallery ; The Small Print. 
£16.99

A Knitting Glossary with Elizabeth Zimmermann & Meg Swansen. Over 130 handknitting techniques demonstrated. Meg has updated the original 100-technique glossary and added over 30 “new” techniques. Here you will find: 13 ways to cast one, 7 ways to cast off, 15 I-cord variations, two-colour knitting techniques, entrelac, Bavarian twisted stitch, buttonholes, two-end knitting, afterthought pockets, weaving/grafting, Armenian knitting, steeks, double-knitting, increasing, decreasing, jogless knitting, E.P.S. and so much more, plus the joy of having Elizabeth & Meg in your home. £25.95

Finesse your Knitting 1 – for passionate knitters Tubular Bind-Off Methods, The Afterthought Pocket, Grafting Stitches: Top to Top, The Magic Buttonhole, Perfect Grafting: Top to Bottom. Running time 2 hours 16 minutes. £16.99

Double Knitting Delight – for knitting maniacs For the adventurous knitter this exciting area of knitting can become a passion. Double-knitting is easily explained in visual format. Topics here include cast ons, casts off, shapings, colour patterning, tubes on straight needles, circles within circles, transforming a single fabric to double (and back again), quilting and a fascinating pocket. Running time 2 hours 27 minutes. £16.99

Knitting Gems 1 The Knitting Gems series for enquiring knitters covers a range of invaluable techniques to expand your knitting expertise to new and exciting areas. Each technique is filmed from a knitter’s eye view accompanied by Lucy’s informal commentary, describing how to perform each step in detail and why you might wish to use it. Applied edges, Buttonhole Essentials, including the one-row buttonhole, I-Cord Basics, Cords, Braids and Bobbles, Presenting the Picot Family, Twists, Kinks and Bias. Running time 2 hours 03 minutes. £16.99

Knitting Gems 2 The Knitting Gems series for enquiring knitters covers a range of invaluable techniques to expand your knitting expertise to new and exciting areas. Each technique is filmed from a knitter’s eye view accompanied by Lucy’s informal commentary, describing how to perform each step in detail and why you might wish to use it. Becoming ambidextrous, stranding knitting and weaving techniques, colour dominance, Steeks for necklines and armholes, Shapings and Scissors, Little Mysteries, Short Row Techniques. Running time 1 hour 45 minutes. £16.99

Knitting Gems 3 The Knitting Gems series for enquiring knitters covers a range of invaluable techniques to expand your knitting expertise to new and exciting areas. Each technique is filmed from a knitter’s eye view accompanied by Lucy’s informal commentary, describing how to perform each step in detail and why you might wish to use it. A cornucopia of beading techniques, Cabling with and without a cable needle, Lace Basics including reading charts, useful tricks for Yarn Handling. Running time 1 hour 46 minutes. £16.99

Knitting Gems 4 The Knitting Gems series for enquiring knitters covers a range of invaluable techniques to expand your knitting expertise to new and exciting areas. Each technique is filmed from a knitter’s eye view accompanied by Lucy’s informal commentary, describing how to perform each step in detail and why you might wish to use it. Cool Cast-Ons, Even More Increases, tubular edges, decorative twined chain and scallops, Daring Rescue techniques, Odds and Ends, Fancy Cast-Offs. Running time 1 hour 54 minutes. £16.99

Knitting Around with Elizabeth Zimmermann and Meg Swansen. This wonderful DVD set delivers many of EZ’s most ingenious and popular designs, from a scarf, mittens and socks to shawls, sweaters and a coat. Elizabeth and meg demonstrate the necessary techniques and guide you through the construction of: • Moccasin socks • The Moebius scarf and vest • Baby Bog jacket • Pie are squared shawl • Norwegian pullover, and much more. Includes EZ reading her autobiographical “Digressions” with a slideshow of photos from her life. 6 hours running time on three DVDs. £27.95

Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Baby Surprise Jacket with Meg Swansen. The Baby Surprise Jacket was introduced in 1968 and has grown in popularity ever since. In this DVD Meg takes you step-by-step through the jacket construction, including: • Long tail cast on • Double decreasing/increasing • Adding colours • Baby buttonholes • Casting off in purl • Sewing a seam and darning in ends. Plus bonus material showing: • Collar • “continuous line” through the jacket • Matching bonnet • Knitting small circumferences on 2 circular needles • Invisible cast on • I-cord techniques. Watching and listening to Meg is like having your best knitting friend with you! £14.75

Meg Swansen’s Round-the-Bend Jacket & Puzzle-Pillow Blanket. These two projects feature the magic of garter stitch squares. Meg uses her “sew-as-you-go” technique to unite the sections as she knits. The beautiful Round-the-Bend jacket follows a twisting path from the cuff, up the sleeves, then turns four corners before re-attaching. Repeat the second half in mirror-image, knit them together, and you have your jacket. The Puzzle-Pillow Blanket zigs and zags, forming garter stitch triangles and parallelograms with perpendicular grain- never a boring row! As a bonus, the blanket folds up into its own attached pillowcase. But how? Challenge your friends with the mystery. 
£19.75

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