Judith Durant is the editor of the best-selling One-Skein Wonders(r) series, which currently includes seven volumes; author of" Increase, Decrease" and "Knit One, Bead Too"; and co-author, with Dorothy T. Ratigan, of "Knitting Know-How". Durant has been knitting for more than 50 years and has been writing and editing for 30 years. She lives in Lowell, Massachusetts.