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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[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.