The New Issue of Knitter's Magazine Has Arrived...
...and it has reinforced my decision to cancel my subscription. Not that I'm criticizing them--I've been subscribing for a very long time and they have provided me with some pretty amazing sweaters. It's just that since knitting has become "trendy" the patterns have become "trendy," and if I am going to spend a year or two (you never know here at WIP Central) working on a sweater, I want it to still be in style by the time I finish it. Provided that I ever do, of course. So, I flipped through the magazine, noticed there isn't a single thing I will ever knit, and put it in the bookshelf in the sewing room. Why not just throw it out? I was raised by packrats. It's true. My parents moved into their house when I was 4, and until last summer when their basement was flooded, there were still boxes that hadn't been unpacked since they moved it 30+ years before. They kept everything . Somewhere down there, my Ballerina Barbie whose face wa...