Magazine - Knitters, 1985 Spring/Summer

Knitter's (they added the apostrophe in 1988) had a 30-year run, from 1985 until 2016, not bad for a knitting magazine. In the first issue, editor Elaine Rowley explained how she learned to knit watching a TV show hosted by Elizabeth Zimmermann on her local PBS station in South Dakota, and publisher Alexis Xenakis told how he had the pleasure of visiting Zimmermann in Wisconsin and convincing her to write a regular column. This is their second issue, featuring an interview with Mary Walker Phillips, and articles on a lace bordered cardigan, and the new phenomenon, birthed by the invention of the video recorder/player, of knitting videos. See our photos for the table of contents. 82 pages.