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2014-10-08 10:27:56

After a decades-long career in marketing, Wendy Bernard left her corporate life behind to raise her daughter as a stay-at-home-mom in 2002. While staying at home with her baby, Wendy began knitting and blogging about her adventures at Knit and Tonic, a blog that she started in 2005 out of boredom and a desire to keep her thirst for writing alive. "While I blogged about adjusting existing knitting patterns, and showing off my results, readers kept asking me if I would begin designing and sharing my results," Wendy says. "I read up on different techniques, threw myself into the whole thing, and next thing I knew, a literary agent contacted me and asked me if I wanted to write a book about knitting." In 2008, her first book, "Custom Knits" was published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, a division of Harry N. Abrams. Since then, she has written three more books, "Custom Knits 2," "Custom Knits Accessories, and "Up, Down, All-Around Stitch Dictionary," which is the first stitch dictionary of its kind, one that shows knitters how to re-create stitch patterns not only flat, but in the round and top down, which she says helps knitters to free up the critical part of their minds and have even more fun knitting. Wendy lives in Southern California with her husband and daughter. Her favorite thing to do is hang out with them on the weekends and go to the beach to knit.

Learn how to knit custom top-down sweaters from scratch using your very own measurements and any yarn you like with Wendy Bernard. This course will free you of your dependence on written patterns and teach you about how top-down, seamless garments are constructed. When knitting top-down, not only can you avoid having to seam your sweaters at the end, you'll also have ample opportunities to try on your sweater as you go so you can get a perfectly fitted sweater or cardigan. Wendy will cover top-down raglan sweaters in Parts 1 and 2, and top-down set-in-sleeve sweaters in Parts 3 and 4. With the simple formulas Wendy outlines, you'll be able to make a pullover or a cardigan for yourself or anyone else, be they man, woman, or child. This is total top-down knitting freedom - simply start with your own measurements (or a lucky recipient), do a little bit of math on the worksheets provided, cast on, and get knitting!

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