Elizabeth and Meg's original 100-technique Knitting Glossary Video is now updated for DVD. Meg has added over thrity 'new' techniques.

You will find:
-13 ways to Cast On
- 7 ways to Cast Off
- 15 I-cord variations
- Two colour knitting techniques
- Entrelac
- Bavarian Twisted Stitch
- Two-End Knitting
- Afterthought Pockets
- Weaving (grafting, Kitchener stitch)
- Armenian Knitting
- Steeks (crocheted or machine-stitched)
- Double Knitting
- Increasing
- Decreasing
- Jogless Knitting
- E.P.S

and much much more

Over 4 hours of full on knitting action!

The ever popular Knitting Around, companion media to Elizabeth's Knitting Around book, is now available on DVD. Over 6 hrs long.

The ever popular Knitting Around, companion media to Elizabeth's Knitting Around book,

Contains Twelve lessons including: The Moccasin Sock, Fair Isle Yoke Sweater, Knitted Dickeys (useful samplers for learning to knit short row garter-stitch corners, a technique that can be used for larger garments), the original Knitted Moebius, The Bog Jacket, The Pie Are Square Shawl, A Norwegian Pullover, A Mittful of Mittens and An Aran Coat (two lessons.) Cully has also added a voice segment of Elizabeth reading her digressions (written in Knitting Around), along with a slideshow of over 400 EZ photographs & watercolors, many of them not previously in print.

Approx 6 hrs.

Elizabeth Zimmermann's Baby Surprise Jacket DVD,
with Meg Swansen
— from the book Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop

One of the most unique & ingenius of all of EZ’s designs, the BSJ was introduced in 1968, and has grown in popularity ever since. Meg takes you step by step through the jacket construction, including:long tail cast on, double decreasing / increasing, adding colors, baby buttonholes, casting off in purl, sewing a seam / darning in ends.

Bonus material includes :addition of collar, “continuous line” throughout the jacket, matching bonnet, knitting small circumferences on 2 circular needles, invisible cast on, and I-cord techniques. approx. 1 hr 20 mins.


Some reactions from knitters:

“I enjoy knitting this little sweater as it is truly fun. I’ve made
more than 50 in the last 3 years.”
“This sweater is an engineering marvel.”
“I’ve been making little people sweaters for at least 40 years and
haven’t found an easier pattern yet; LOVE the BSJ.”

Images courtesy of Schoolhouse Press

The lessons originally aired on PBS.

The lessons originally aired on PBS, from beginnings (casting on, increasing, decreasing and color work) to Master classes (aran and fair isle sweaters, shoulder shapings, steeks and more) edited by Cully Swansen with additional commentary from Meg about EZ.

Part 1 Beginnings.
Follow along as Elizabeth winds a center - pull ball of wool to begin your first project a hat knitted in the round.

Part 2: Intermediate.
After completing the hat, you have learned enough basic technique to knit a seamless yoke sweater; followed by a colour-patterned dropped-shoulder pullover.

Part 3: Master Classes
Elizabeth discusses and shows examples of tradional Fair Isle and Guernsey knitting as well as garter stitch and lace.

Swedish Dubbelmössa and Scarf DVD
— from the book Handknitting with Meg Swansen

This versatile Swedish hat can be worn in a variety of ways and provides an excellent opportunity to practice color-pattern knitting. Traditionally, it is folded in upon itself to form four thicknesses over the ears. The lightweight Unspun Icelandic tubular scarf offers a choice of end-treatments: a giant sock-toe or an I-Cord fringe. Both scarf and hat are knitted in the round, which simplifies construction.

You will see Invisible Cast On (2 methods); basic construction; charting; Jogless jogs; top decreasing; tassle; Sock-Toe ending;decreasing; splicing wool; weaving, and I-Cord fringe. Kit Available. 60 minutes.

Cully has produced a DVD from Meg's original Round the Bend Jacket video, adding the ever useful menu options for ease in reviewing techniques as you knit along. Also included is the footage for the Puzzle Pillow Blanket which uses techniques similar to those in the Round the Bend Jacket. Full instruction for both Jacket and Blanket with DVD menus.

Mimbres Vest DVD
— from the book Meg Swansen's Knitting

This all-over patterned vest is worked on circular needles from the lower edge to wanted length to underarm, where a pair of steeks are established. Continue to the base of the scooped neck, insert another steek, then onward to wanted shoulder height. Shoulders are united and the steeks are machine-stitched and cut. I- Cord borders are knitted directly onto the edges of the armholes and all around the periphery of the vest .

Techniques include: Long Tail casting on; following the chart; trapping the carried color; kangaroo pouches; steeks; machine stitching and cutting; 3-needle I-Cord cast off; EZ's Applied I-Cord; neatening the cut edges; blocking. Filmed on location in New Mexico and Arizona.

60 minutes. DVD

A few months ago, Cully found the raw footage Chris and I had taped in Oregon in 1992, which documented knitting this child's guernsey (modeled on the cover by Eli Swansen). I had thought the film was lost, as Chris had never found time to complete this project, but now Cully has edited all the material, added Chris's music and produced a "new" (never previously released) DVD. Filmed along the spectacular Oregon coast, this Knitting Vacation takes you step by step through the Guernsey construction. Knitted in the round to the underarms, then worked flat to the shoulders-eliminating the need to cut-this is a great project for both beginning and experienced knitters. Insert instructions include numbers for a child's and an adult's size.

You will see Channel Island cast on, split lower garter-sttich welt, Indian Corn stitch, gussets, texture patterns, horizontal, shaped shoulder straps, garter-stitch weaving, knitting-up around armholes, decreasting to cuffs, and EZ's sewn cast off. approx. 60 min.

This circular seamless pullover, based on Elizabeth Zimmermann's Percentage System (EPS), is elegant in appearance and a pleasure to knit. You may choose either a 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. 60 minutes. DVD.

The Shawl Collared Vest DVD with Meg Swansen

The Shawl Collared Vest is knitted completely in the round and then cut. Casting on, twisted rib, backward loop increase, L and R cable (with and without a cable needle), cable trick, steeks, Phoney Seams, V-Neck Shaping, Reversible Phoney Seam, Finishing a Cut Edge, and I-Cord Tab Buttonholes. 60 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, from 1956 McCall's (lovely!) Techniques shown include: Invisible cast on, increasing, short rows, garter-stitch weaving, after-thought pockets, EZ's applied Icord, 3-Needle I-Cord Cast Off, Reversible Phoney Seams, Sport-Jacket Vent.

A Fair Isle Vest is knitted in Heather, Natural Black, Honey, Oatmeal, Moorit, and Ghillie Green. From corrugated rib to armhole steeks, V-neck shaping to shoulder weaving, borders, and blocking, plus a two-color knitting demo. Visit to Washington Island. 90 minutes

- two types of casting on
- corrugated rib
- two colour knitting
- kangaroo pouches
- shaped armholes
- v-neck shaping
- knit back backwards
- machine steeks
- woven shoulders
- pick up ratio for neck border
- neatening
- final blocking

This striking all-over pattern is enhanced by the impressive continuity of motif from cuff to cuff. Meg guides you through the knitting of this circularly-constructed garment, showing techniques including long tail cast on, side panels, increasing in a pattern, steeks at armholes and neck, knitting up in pattern, I-cord shoulder seam, top of sleeve decreasing, corrugated rib, Casting-On, Casting-Off, Applied I-cord, plus centering a color-pattern and two-color knitting excerpts from A Knitting Glossary DVD. approx. 60 min.

Knit three lovely shawls along with Meg: The Mananita, a lace poncho, knitted in the round from center to crocheted edging, a long graceful reversible Stole with perpendicular border (originally featured in Vogue Knitting), and a small Neck-Scarf version of a traditional Faroese Shawl. Approx 2 hrs.