Thank you, Meg!

Those of you in possession of the new 25th-anniversary Vogue Knitting issue will have seen Meg Swansen's little plug for our project here. I hope you'll join me in expressing gratitude to Meg for her continued support of our celebration of her mother's genius. When I asked her blessing to begin Zimmermania eleven months ago, I had no idea we'd grow to more than 500 participants, and I want to thank you all for the atmosphere of encouragement and respect and welcome you have created.

I also want to say again that we open the doors here to anyone who wants to knit Elizabeth's (or Meg's) designs. There are directions for contacting me to join the group in the sidebar link, and if you haven't had a response within a week it means I haven't received your message, so please try again.

I was finally able to round out my EZ library with a birthday gift of The Opinionated Knitter, which I fondly devoured over the weekend. Those early Newsletters were written when my mother was a little girl, but Elizabeth's voice is so vivid and Meg did such splendid work in assembling and annotating the book that you feel as if you're cozily knitting on the porch with old friends, with coffee and lap-cats for everyone. A final enormous thank-you to Meg, and I'm off to finish my first February baby sweater.

Knit on, everybody, and viva EZ!