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Old April 23rd 05, 01:24 AM
Els van Dam
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Hello everyone,

I have bought three great knitting magazines this month. First I found
Family Circle's "Easy Knitting" at my supermarket check out. It has
several great kids sweaters in it and one with a dinosaur knitted in with
the arm carrying the riangular points of the back of the dino, on the
center of the arm. There are several great crocheting squares featured
for our 6x6 exchange. It also has a top knitted from arm to arm sideways
across the front.
The next magazine is a first for me, maybe some of you know this
publication already, "Creative Knitting". Here I found for knitting with
my favorite butterfly yarn, a smocked little jumper for my grand
daughter. It is a recktangle with little I cord straps and smocking at
the top. I have done lots of regular smocking but this will be the first
time for knitted smocking (I do think that someone asked about the
possibility of doing that in knitting, well hereit is) It looks great.
My best find this month is in "In Knitters". I do love this magazine,
because they are the best in explaining details and showing small samples
etc. This month they have knitting with beads, lots of talk about that in
this group, as well as an in depth article about pilling and what to do
and not to do to avoid the pilling of your fibers. Double knitting is
also featured, so for all of you who wanted to know about that, get this
Spring issue. I have played with that for a while now. So far I have
made very simple samples of double knitting, some of you got to see those
as 6x6 squares in our exchange. Here they show very wonderful complex
ideas, all very creative and lovely. Now to find the time to do it all.

I have finished the front part of the smocked little dress. It was the
most simple to do on my knitting machine. I am knitting the ribs for the
smocking by hand, but while I was doing that, I realized that I could have
done that on the machine as well. Just drop the stitches that need to be
purled and pick them up on the other side and with your latch tool knit
them back up. Learning as I go along as usual....LOL

Els

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Old April 23rd 05, 03:18 AM
Katherine
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Hi, Els.

I have the Family Circle Easy Knitting and Creative Knitting. I actually
broke down and bought a subscription to Creative Knitting! I haven't seen
the other one yet, but will keep a look out for it.

Katherine

Els van Dam wrote:
Hello everyone,

I have bought three great knitting magazines this month. First I
found Family Circle's "Easy Knitting" at my supermarket check out.
It has several great kids sweaters in it and one with a dinosaur
knitted in with the arm carrying the riangular points of the back of
the dino, on the center of the arm. There are several great
crocheting squares featured for our 6x6 exchange. It also has a top
knitted from arm to arm sideways across the front.
The next magazine is a first for me, maybe some of you know this
publication already, "Creative Knitting". Here I found for knitting
with my favorite butterfly yarn, a smocked little jumper for my grand
daughter. It is a recktangle with little I cord straps and smocking
at the top. I have done lots of regular smocking but this will be
the first time for knitted smocking (I do think that someone asked
about the possibility of doing that in knitting, well hereit is) It
looks great. My best find this month is in "In Knitters". I do love
this magazine, because they are the best in explaining details and
showing small samples etc. This month they have knitting with beads,
lots of talk about that in this group, as well as an in depth article
about pilling and what to do and not to do to avoid the pilling of
your fibers. Double knitting is also featured, so for all of you who
wanted to know about that, get this Spring issue. I have played with
that for a while now. So far I have made very simple samples of
double knitting, some of you got to see those as 6x6 squares in our
exchange. Here they show very wonderful complex ideas, all very
creative and lovely. Now to find the time to do it all.

I have finished the front part of the smocked little dress. It was
the most simple to do on my knitting machine. I am knitting the ribs
for the smocking by hand, but while I was doing that, I realized that
I could have done that on the machine as well. Just drop the stitches
that need to be purled and pick them up on the other side and with
your latch tool knit them back up. Learning as I go along as
usual....LOL

Els



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Old April 25th 05, 05:15 AM
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen
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Hee Elsje ,,,,,
amily Circle's "Easy Knitting" at my supermarket check out. It has

i have seen this Mag , once or twice ... but not for years.
publication already, "Creative Knitting". Here I found for knitting with

Never saw this one , thanks for the description.
My best find this month is in "In Knitters". I do love this magazine,

Where is that printed ???
I just got my [ suscription] Interweave Knits` of Summer 2005
I am amazed at the number of Shoulder shrugs They offer after all this
is a summer issue. There are some Summer clothes , The dress on the
cover Hummmm if only i was 20 again .....And one of the best patters [
20 years range again] the red vest in Takhi `s advertisement , is the
most Hip thing i saw for a long while .
mirjam

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Old April 25th 05, 06:36 PM
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I googled for In Knitters to find out where I might get it and not only
answered that question but found they had a downloadable charity
knitting supplement.
www.inknitters.com

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Old April 26th 05, 01:00 AM
Els van Dam
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In article . com, "JCT"
wrote:

I googled for In Knitters to find out where I might get it and not only
answered that question but found they had a downloadable charity
knitting supplement.
www.inknitters.com


Great, I am happy you found it, I did not know about the on line charity
knitting supplement.

I find In knitters one of the best knitting magazines for learning. It
gives very good plain explanations. I have bought several knitting books
lately,one on lace knitting, and frankly when you have to learn that
technique, the explanations leave a lot to be desired.

Els

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