magazines

Like I don't have enough keeping me from knitting: (work, for one) a tumbling pile of books by the bed and a shelf full of unread paperbacks by my desk, email subscriptions to fifteen yahoo groups (though I'm "no mail" in all but four of them, and in digest mode in those), not to mention email from family & friends, now I've gone and bought the latest Interweave Knits and Vogue Knitting magazines.

I went looking for the VK Holiday 2007 because I read (one one of those lists) that there's an Alice Starmore pattern in it. My favorite bookstore didn't have a copy, but IK's Winter 2007 leapt off the rack and into my hands in its place. Just in time; Knitting Daily (another email list I'm on) has a poll: which project(s) in this IK are our hands itching to get started on.

My answer?
Henley Perfected - it's perfect.
Colette Pullover - love those cats, but in different colors, please.
Tilting Cable Socks - solid color yarn for me.
Ivy League Vest - if I wore vests, the fair isle is so tempting.
Farrow Rib Cardigan - pretty.

I also fell in love with the skirt half of the dress on the inside front cover, an ad for Rebecca Magazine. Love several more of the ads. Hate a couple of the patterns (citrus yoke pullover, rosemary's swing jacket), and was charmed to find the closing article column (whatever that's called - the inside back cover article that many mags sport) to be by Marilyn Roberts, my very favorite blogger.

As if that wasn't enough, on the way home yesterday, since I knew th'Mr had a gig in Lexington & wouldn't be home till after nine, I stopped in AC Moore and there I did find the Vogue holiday issue. The Starmore is wonderful, of course, but I'm more drawn to Sasha Kagan's leafy vest. Yes, vest. I'd find a way to wear a vest, if I knit that vest.

Babbling.

Nearly noon, time to wake th'Mr. I'm home today because at 2:30 I have to go have my head examined in Mt. Sterling, a new doctor to look at the "dark spots" my regular doctor found on the MRI she took back in the spring. Hey, I've been saying for decades I have a brain tumor. Might explain some personality quirks, eh?