The dissection issue.
Whenever summer issues of knitting publications hit the shelves (or the web), I hold out hope that they'll be amazing. I'm usually disappointed, like now (but not really disappointed because I was expecting it all along).
Knitty
Looking through Knitty this time around, one issue jumped out at me: there's designing something unusual for the sake of making it, and there's designing something unusual that becomes useful, and there's just rehashing what already exists. Me, I love patterns that fall into this category. Knitty as usually been full of very strong #2s, but this time there are a lot of #1s and #3s. There are few things I'd make - Mariposa, Via Diagonale, I Do (though I hate the name, same with the honeymoon cami. It makes me feel as if I should only wear it/knit it if I'm getting hitched), but it's all largely mediocre. Or horrifiying, in the case of Cleaves.
The articles I can't comment on, as I don't usually read them until I'm very, very bored. Not that they're bad, but I can only take so much reading about knitting, and I prefer to get it via blogs.
Interweave Knits (link to preview)
Ah, this one saddens me. I've never liked the Summer issues, though; I don't have much desire to make tiny camisoles out of heavy mercerized cotton (or anything out of 100% cotton, really, but it seems that more and more cotton blends are coming out).
Generally, my impressions are as such:
The photographs throughout beg the question, "Where the heck is the detail that makes the garment?" I miss this particularly with the lacy items.
Debbie Bliss needs to get with the program - hers is the only garment that doesn't go beyond a 38-inch bust.
The shrug patterns on the web are so-so, but the ones in the magazine are great. (And the other web pattern - Dibs on Ribs - is one I need to cast on for ASAP.)
I like the One-Button Cardigan, but, man, is that thing HUGE. I also like the Premiere Pullover (Knitpicks has a new cotton/modal yarn that might work well for it), despite the strangeness that is the collar. The Leaf Lace Pullover is another that I like, despite the huge yarn. (Though someday I must make a sweater out of huge yarn just to get it out of my system.) Teva Durham, by the way, is one of those designers frequently in category 2, though she often dips her toes into category 1.
I can comment on these articles, as I read them, but there's really nothing to say about them. There seems to be fewer of them than usual.
The End.
Tipper @ 4:40 AM * link
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