Thank you for sharing! Funny write-ups... but I have to admit (do I hang my
head now?) that I kind of liked *some* of those patterns... the toys, wreath
and fake plant, NOT the clothes. I wouldn't mind finding a pattern for the
things I did like... but since they're from really old books I likely never
will.

Gem
Like I don't already have more patterns than I'll ever use. ;o)

"Karen in MN" ask.me.for.my.email.address wrote in message
. net...
For those of you that get a kick as I do of the knitting patterns from the
old magazines (remember those scary ski-hats that someone here posted a
link
to???), I came across a blog last night that actually had me crying from
laughing so hard.

http://yarnpants.blogspot.com/2004/09/new-feature.html

Off the right is the index for five volumes of the "Museum of Kitschy
Stitches". The link above is the intro and Volume 1

I was crying by Volume 2 ("You Knit for your Mama With Those Needles") and
running for the bathroom by Volume 3 ("Emasculation Nation: Menswear that
makes Men Swear"). After that, I was completely out of control.

I wonder if twenty years from now, people will be looking at the 2005
issues
of Knitters and Vogue Knitting and asking "What were they thinking???"



Karen in MN