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Today on MDK

Ask Patty: Make One Make Sense

By Patty Lyons   22

Increases are a basic thing to understand—how they lean, why they lean, why it matters.

Knit to This: The Lost Woolly Dog

By Kay Gardiner   15

A scientific discovery that rewrites history.

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Patty Lyons

Brooklyn, New York

Whatever the problem (knitting or otherwise), she will not back down.

Adrienne Martini

Oneonta, New York

Tudor Roses, anyone? ... Anyone?

Paul Haesemeyer

Riga, Latvia

Paul is a Fulbright scholar researching knitting in Latvia.

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