From the Editor Knitting elcome to the Amazing Adventures edition of Knitting Traditions WTraditions! It’s all about explorers and adventurers—some were attempting to reach the North or the South Pole, others to cir- EDITOR Jeane Hutchins CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Karen Brock cumnavigate the globe. Not all of them were men. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Anita Osterhaug In her article, “Knitwear for Polar Explorers,” Angharad Thomas exam- ines the exploits of a number of famous explorers, including Robert Scott CREATIVE DIRECTOR Larissa Davis and Ernest Shackleton. She notes, “To study accounts of polar exploits is to MANAGING EDITOR SPECIALTY FIBER Kathy Mallo become overwhelmed by the descriptions of the harshness of the physical TECHNICAL EDITORS Tracey Davidson, Karen Frisa, Robin Melanson, Daniela Nii conditions the expeditions encountered.” EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Abbi Byrd Two American women who experienced those conditions firsthand were Josephine Peary and Jackie Ronne. Josephine Peary first traveled with COPY EDITOR Veronica Patterson her husband, Robert Peary, to the Arctic in 1891. Author Kathy Augustine writes, “[Josephine] forged ahead on a path of unyielding support for her DESIGNER Debbie Long husband, whether by his side in the frozen north or from the warmth of PRODUCTION DESIGNER her parlor where she entertained sponsors.” In 1947, Jackie Ronne became Nichole Mulder the first American woman to reach Antarctica, with knitting needles and PROJECT PHOTOGRAPHER Donald Scott yarn in tow. For twelve months, she and her husband, expedition leader PHOTOSTYLING Ann Swanson Finn Ronne, lived in a 12-foot (3.7-m) square hut.

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