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This is the space where you are to hear about me, Sally Melville—knitting designer / teacher / author. These spaces are usually written by people other than the person who is written about—for objectivity and all that good stuff. But I suspect what you’d then get is my story as told from the end and with all its ‘high points.’ And I don’t think that’s either inspiring or particularly truthful. Because while the ‘high points’ may define us , isn’t it really the early stuff with its ‘low points’ that make us who we are? So here are the truly important events that made me a knitting designer / teacher / author.

As a young girl, I couldn’t get gauge so had to write my own patterns.

As a young woman, I made a truly weird sweater that, when fixed, was oddly appealing . . . enough that I could begin selling my work.

The subsequent purchase of a knitting machine taught me how much I truly did not know.

I enrolled in a one-day, knitting design class . . . where everyone wanted to know about the sweater I was wearing and where I was thrown out for passing notes .

Back to my knitting machine where my math and writing got to work and taught me what that class should have.

Soon enough I started my own knitting design class . . . from which no student would ever be thrown out! This became an ongoing group and then the K-W Knitters’ Guild.

I developed more classes—to stay one step ahead of the guild members.

One of our guest teachers pushed me into the light of the public of knitting world.

In 1993 my husband died, and all knitting came to a halt. I took a job as Study Skills Advisor at my local university.

But my daughter asked me to knit a sweater for her boyfriend. So I did—out of leftovers. And it became the centre piece of my first book: see Styles in books.

Styles was wonderfully successful. But what would I do next?

I had a desire to teach the world to knit. The result is The Knit Stitch, which sold really really well and probably led you to this website.

So thanks for coming. Keep in touch, play safe, and keep knitting!

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Sally Melville

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Books from Sally Melville

The Knitting Experience Book 1: The Knit Stitch, Inspiration & Instruction

The Knitting Experience: Book 2: The Purl Stitch

The Knitting Experience: Book 3: Color

Knitting Pattern Essentials: Adapting and Drafting Knitting Patterns for Great Knitwear

Mother-Daughter Knits: 30 Designs to Flatter & Fit

Warm Knits, Cool Gifts: Celebrate the Love of Knitting and Family with more than 35 Charming Designs

Sally Melville Styles: A Unique and Elegant Approach to Your Yarn Collection

The Power and The Glory The Knitting Experience: Book 3: Color (The Knitting Experience)

The Knitting Experience Set (Book 1: The Knit Stitch & Book 2: The Purl Stitch)

Le tricot facile: L'art du point mousse