Happy Valentine's Day

How's this for some festive garb?



Perhaps you are wondering what I am doing lazing around in snowflake pajamas and hearts-and-flowers socks at home at two in the afternoon on Valentine's Day? Snow Day! We were sent home yesterday at noon in the sleet and we are off again today, though, truly, the weather is not bad today. Course I haven't seen the roads. You can't see them from where I live. My husband had to call the florist when he got to town today to tell them he will come pick up my Valentine flowers since I am not at work to deliver to. A disappointment, it is true.

Now, I have a Very Important Question:

How do you like your knitting magazines laid out? Do you like the Vogue method where all the samples are laid out in pictorials then the patterns are all bunched in the back? Or do you prefer the Knitter's way where each picture and pattern is featured together and laid out one right after the other throughout the magazine?

I ask because I got my Spring 2007 Interweave Knits in the mail yesterday and they have changed their format; they are now "Vogue"-ing. And I don't like it. I will give them credit for putting 1/4-page size pics in color of each sample on the pages with the patterns -- for years, all you got from Vogue was the pattern number -- but I still don't like. And it is not (just) that I am set in my ways: I have always found that method to be very unhandy. When I look at something I might want to make, I want to know -- while I am looking at it -- what kind of yarn it uses and how much, what the gauge is and how it is put together. I'd write to IWK and tell them all this, but I'm still a little hostile about how they responded the last time I wrote them with criticism, so I'm just going to let my subscription lapse instead. This magazine is available at Wal-Mart now, so I will have a chance when they come out to just buy the ones I want. Then I won't get stuck with any lame issues...like Spring 2007.

Actually, I'm being too harsh calling this issue lame. It is okay. Maybe I'm becoming a crotchety old knitter. I was very disappointed with the Spring Rowan -- and last Fall -- as well. I've hated Knitter's for a very long time and Vogue has always been hit or miss for me. The new magazines for "hip young knitters" are occasionally entertaining, but it hurts me to buy things that say on the front they are "hip." Sigh. Crotchety old knitter....