MagKnits August est arrivée

Magknits August* issue is up, with a mixed crop of patterns.
- Crime of fashion: a cotton scarf mimicking the plastic tape used to seal off crime scenes (at least in the movies)
- Sesame: a basic striped cardigan. You know, the kind you wish to find in the back of your closet that Saturday in October when you need to move the garden furniture inside, pick the last apples and have coffee on the balcony under a crisp blue autumn sky... Get knitting now, and you might just find it when you need it...
- Coleen: Yet another cropped cardigan. Cute, but not for me. The stitch pattern reminds me of crocheting, I might try it on something else.
- Alice: A fitted sweater that looks really nice except for the fair-isle band. I don't know why, but I really don't like this kind of pattern. I would prefer something like CAUTION DO NOT CROSS, which is a pretty good idea, come to think of it...
- Picovoli: a tight fitting t-shirt which reminds me of a bulkier Teva Durham ballet top, which is already on my wishlist. I might just replace it with this...
- Frilling: a simple mohair wrap in a simple fan pattern. Nothing I feel compelled to get my needles into.

My Magknits thing is for the October issue.

The site has changed, but the designer has chosen to continue the annoying habit of using a small square cut-out from the project photo on the patterns page. It makes for a potentially interesting game of guessing, but it doesn't do the patterns justice at all. It would also be useful to include more photos, especially of sweaters. What do they look like from behind? Is the collar of Sesame meant to be buttoned up into a polo?

* The magazine is published on the last day of each month, from now on.

My lovely lovely Alpacka arrived yesterday and I was tempted to stay home today, just staring at this beauty. Water is not a good name for the colour, it is slightly darker than in the photo below, but twice as lovely. Now, I dream of patterns.