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Elizabeth J. SlaytonAKD certified category of hand knitter expertise:
AKD Professional Accreditation Committee Website: www.joyknits.com
E. J. (Joy) Slayton learned to knit from her grandmother at age 9. Her serious involvement with knitting and designing came after encountering Elizabeth Zimmermann's Busy Knitter series on PBS. Since then, she has studied under Elizabeth and her daughter, Meg Swansen, Nancy Bush, Lily Chin, Sally Melville, Mary Walker Phillips, and Alice Starmore, as well as Paula Simmons and other well-known instructors. Joy's designs have appeared in many publications, including Vogue Knitting, Knitter's, Creative Knitting, Knitting World, Knitting Digest and Crafting Traditions. Plymouth Yarn Company and Brown Sheep Company have featured her designs in numerous pattern collections, the most recent being "Serendipity Tweed Cardigan" for Brown Sheep, which also appeared on the runway of the fashion show at TNNA in June 2007. She publishes her own line of booklets and stand-alone patterns, Joyknits Designs, including Ribbing - Plain & Fancy, which can be found on her website. In addition to her free-lance design work, Joy currently holds the position of Technical Editor for Creative Knitting. In the past she served as Technical Editor for Knitting Digest and Knitting World. House of White Birches has also used Joy's extensive knowledge to edit their hardcover books and pattern collections.
Joyknits Designs
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