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This craft was used for a set of “Poor Boy” items bought in every color by Audrey Hepburn and designed by Sonia Rykiel. The fashion house Missoni worked with a “flammata” form of this craft on Raschel machines to create colorful zigzag designs popular in the 1960s. Apocryphally, designs in this craft were used to identify dead fishermen in the Aran Islands. Fair Isle is one technique to incorporate colorwork in this craft, (-5[1])which can be done by hand using English or Continental methods. Linda Muir designed the guernseys made from this craft worn in Robert (-5[1])Egger’s film The Lighthouse. A purl is a basic stitch in this craft (-5[1])for (10[1])creating (-5[1])patterns (10[1])like (10[1])stockinette and cable. For 10 points, (10[1])jumpers and pullovers are often made in what craft by interlacing (10[2])yarn loops with needles? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: knitting [accept knitwear or knits; prompt on fashion or making textiles, fabric, or clothing; reject “sewing” or “weaving”]
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Nermeen RahmanIndiana BUIUC D72-5
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Davis JohnsonPurdue DMiami10910
Christopher JosephNotre DameWashU C110-5
Max HodesUChicago APurdue B11110
Coby TranUChicago CPurdue A11210
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Henry LytleWashU DPurdue C12910
Yash MandaviaUIUC BIndiana A12910
Anila MoparthyUIUC DIndiana B13410
Conner YamnitzWashU CNotre Dame1340
Danielle WebbSIUE AUIUC C13410