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Finishing Details

The knitting world is chattering about the new magazine-sponsored event which is coming after the new year dawns. You'll want to make plans now to attend Vogue Knitting LIVE, which includes stellar designers and teachers! In addition, the world-famous Dutchess County Sheep & Wool Festival was recently held in beautiful Rhinebeck, N.Y., also the location where a certain former president's daughter recently had her wedding. Attendees have never come away disappointed, and we hope you will enjoy reading about it too.

Until we knit together again,

Barb Bettegnies
editor, Creative Knitting magazine

As a very determined 4-year-old, I convinced my mother to teach me to knit. I recall clearly my eureka moment at the age of 12, when flicking the yarn the way Mother did made sense to me, and I have been knitting ever since. The home arts of sewing, baking and cooking have always held my interest. After years of co-owning an agribusiness (grain warehouses), I began teaching knitting independently. This led to becoming the editor of Creative Knitting magazine. Perhaps my mother is the only person who was not surprised at this turn of events; she always knew I could achieve more than I had tried. I have grown sons and several grandchildren nearby and knit for them only when asked.

I continue to teach knitting in an informal manner, gathering groups of people together who become friends. The classes are less structured than the norm, with each person working at her own pace on her own project. It's unusual for two knitters to be making the same project; each learns from the successes of others, and we have a great time. I am blessed to be doing what I love!

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