...now digging through my cotton yarn stash! It's time for Spring Knitty 2012!

Good Day Sunshine Pattern and photo by Amanda Bjorge

Hooray! Knitty released the surprise patterns for Deep Fall 2011 today. That's one good way to get over Rowan Calmer getting discontinued! Well, except that the Shapely Boyfriend Sweater would be fantastic in Calmer. Also love the Uzu Sock. I have some Noro sock yarn that I've been wanting an excuse to use. Even better than the patterns is a great article from Stephanie Japel about how to achieve excellent fit. I'm pretty curvy and can benefit from these kinds of tips. It's so frustrating when you spend a long time knitting a sweater only to discover that it looks like the dog's breakfast on you.

What are you waiting for? Go check them out!

I saw Interweave's new publication Jane Austen Knits in stores a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't realize it was an Interweave publication and my initial reaction was a little less than desired. When I first saw it, I was like, oh jeeze yet another knitting magazine and one for Jane Austen of all people, what will they think of next? Charles Dickens Knitting?.

I suppose my slightly negative reaction came from a few places.

1) I am so sick of mainstream fiction targeted towards women to be Jane Austen based. You know, the books about the children of the Darcys, the continuing stories of Mr. Darcy, blah blah blah. I love Jane Austen, but I dislike it when I'm so blatantly marketed to.

2) I love knitting magazines. I have tons of them. I have a hard time organizing them and filtering out the unwanted ones. Okay, it could be said that I hoard knitting magazines. However these days when I'm not making much money it's hard for me to justify purchasing all of teh knitting magazines. So I suppose part of my reaction was. Oh man, another knitting magazine I can't really afford.

However, now that I've seen the projects I must have this knitting magazine. Sigh. Gorgeous, some of them great for costuming.

What's your knitting magazine stash like? Will you be buying Jane Austen Knits? What makes you buy a knitting magazine? Let me know in the comments.

That was fast. Just a few weeks ago, we had the Interweave Knits Holiday Issue Preview up and without much of a wait, we have the Interweave Knits Winter 2010 Preview up. This might be a strategic thing in that a lot of people get issues of Interweave for Christmas, or even Interweave Knits Subscriptions (hint, hint Mr. KnitLuck).

Here's my review of the preview:

1) The cover rocks:

2) Awesome sweaters:

3) Awesome socks:

4) And two fabulous hats:

What do you think of this Winter preview? Is it looking like a big winner to you?
(all photos are from the Interweave Knits preview page)