![]() ![]() ![]() Zimmermann ''brought intelligence and validity to a craft that had been trivialized as women's work.''Įlizabeth Lloyd-Jones was born near Devon, England, in 1910, the daughter of a naval officer and the woman who invented Meals by Motor, a British forerunner of Meals on Wheels. Linda Ligon, president of Interweave Press, which specializes in traditional textile crafts, said Mrs. ''She allowed people to be intuitive about their knitting, rather than just being blind followers of the written word,'' said Nancy J. She gently urged knitters to challenge the limits of their imaginations. ![]() But her passion, expressed in magazine columns, in four books and at her knitting camp, the nation's first, was creating beauty. Zimmermann's best-known gift to knitting was a mathematical formula for figuring the proportions of sweaters and other garments, depending on how many stitches per inch the knitter wanted to use. 30 at a hospital in Marshfield, Wis., where she lived. ![]() Elizabeth Zimmermann, who brought a penetrating intellect and a sculptor's sensitivity to revolutionizing the ancient art of knitting, died Nov. ![]()
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