The Vintage Knitter

[callmemadam]

Issue 14 of The Knitter magazine arrived yesterday. Pretty useless to me; the patterns are nearly all for men and they're all horrible anyway. A pretty boy modelling 'Hawke' but I can't think of a teenager who would wear it and as for 'Cartmel', it looks so uncomfortably bunchy under the arms I wouldn't make it for anyone. Then I saw this



and thought, 'Hulloah! Seventies-tastic?' Sure enough, this is a 'revived' Aran pattern from Patons. Now guess what I found in my pattern stash?

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[(Anonymous)]

That woman in the bottom picture has fabulous hair!

I have a 1970's handicraft book with some superb knitting patterns in it, crochet too. There is a pair of knitted children's dungarees which just boggle the mind!

I'm tempted by that weekly crochet magazine they're advertising on the telly at the moment, in order for me to crochet the seventies waistcoat in my book. I have tried so many books and on-line tutorials to crochet to no avail. I am ever hopeful!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Those models always looked as though they were wearing wigs; probably were!

Look out for Golden Hands magazines for the true seventies experience.

I noticed that crochet mag in W H Smith's yesterday but didn't really look at it. I learned to knit when I was a child and to crochet when I was grown up. I found it so hard trying to teach myself I even went to classes and I'm still not vety good. I find shaping is the tricky part but if you use squares (for the waistcoat, frex) that wouldn't be a problem.