Spring + Summer Knitty already?

[pinesandmaples]

Yes, indeedy! I'm as surprised as you are (but I never know the date, so this might just be me).

Knitty Spring + Summer 2011 logo! Click the pic!

My journal has my usual (mildly useful) pattern rundown as well as some commentary that I'm reproducing here.

First:

"Both Knitty and Twist Collective pushed new issues out into the world for all to see in the past few days. Neither was as bad as I'd feared, but I'm starting with Knitty because it's the better of the two. (This time, at least.)

Traditionally, spring and summer are very weak times for knitwear designers. I don't really understand why spring is a hard season to do because there is a lot of need for knitwear in the global north during the spring season. Living in Mississippi and Louisiana, not so much. But when I lived in Pennsylvania and Sweden, it was absolutely essential to temper my lovely, light and airy clothes with cardis and shawls and little cotton hats that looked swingy and cute. I'm happy to trade spring knitwear for a spring climate that doesn't actually call for knitwear, but plenty of people do not live where I do."

Since y'all will understand, I really am shocked at the missed opportunities for spring knitwear. Even in New Orleans, an interesting featherweight cardigan would not go awry. And my rooibos always has a chill, despite our location. There is a piece of the puzzle missing, I think.

Second:

"I'd also like to have a chat about KnittySpin.
KS makes me feel like I'm an aberration among spinners, even though I know I'm not. Every KS pattern seems to be spewed forth from either the Sheep Sniffers (everything aaaaaaaaallllllllll natural and sheep-colored and must include fleece from every breed of sheep available) or the Spilled Dyepot (my fleece has every color of dye available, wheeeeeeeeee!). I know there are spinners like me because I read their blogs. I see their handspun. We make yarn that rivals commercial yarn. We make yarn that is beautiful and doesn't look like an afghan from 1972. We can spin consistant, attractive skeins of yarn. We can spin artful yarn. We can spin a lot of things so why does KnittySpin only manage to be this weird subset of spinning?"

I'd love to hear from other spinners about their impressions of recent KS patterns.

Comments are welcome here in knitting or in my journal.

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[pinesandmaples]

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