Comments on: Vogue Knitting 25 year special issue

By: Vicki Younger

Vicki Younger — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:21:53 +0000

Lynn it’s now Sept 13 and it’s finally arrived in Australia. And it was well worth the wait!

I only started buying VK a couple of years ago so I didn’t mind seeing the old patterns revisited. In any case, there are far more patterns in this issue than usual so there’s still plenty of value for money.

From the limited time I had to pore over this last night I can see me knitting many of these designs (although I’ll feel the need to modify some of them) eg the Lily Chin dress but without sleeves for summer, Shirley Paden’s crimson sweater without the collar and I love the Michael Kors cape.

I’ve frogged the Silver Belle sleeves and started again; this time I got the sleeve chart to work for me and it’s looking great, in a chocolate brown colour.

Thank you for your comments about this issue, it will keep me happily knitting for a long time to come. I entirely agree about the inclusion of many tunic length garments, I’ll be knitting some of those as well.

And I haven’t even started on the articles yet!

By: Vicki Younger

Vicki Younger — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:47:52 +0000

Well Lynn, it’s now well into September and still no sign of Vogue Knitting here in Australia despite the fact that I’ve been asking my newsagent for weeks now. I finally gave up and decided to subscribe, only to find that the VK website is experiencing “technical difficulties”.

I’ve enjoyed reading your summary of this issue and look forward to the day I have this special issue in my possession!

By: Elizabeth Bainter

Elizabeth Bainter — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:54:22 +0000

I only just picked the issue up last night and while initially excited, found myself becoming increasingly less so as I flipped through it. The extra covers might pull in advertising $ for Vogue but I thought they looked silly and gimmicky. Also I save my Vogues and the extra covers tend to come unstapled and get lost when the issue is drug around in a knitting bag. I thought the covers contained some of the best designs in the issue and it was dissapointing to discover that even though I paid for the magazine, these patterns aren’t included. Tried to get on the Vogue site to check pattern pricing today and it’s “under construction”. Could they have timed it any worse?
The old patterns revisited, I consider wasted space. I already own the originals and when I pay for new patterns don’t expect to get something I already have in my pattern library. Don’t think the “reworkings” added much I couldn’t have come up with on my own, and in the case of the Perry Ellis sweater transformed a classic style into something I wouldn’t be caught dead in. Some nice scarves, but think I’ve knitted more scarves in the last couple years than an entire army could wear out in a lifetime of winters. So hoping there’s enough substance in the rest of the issue to qualify it as a Fall/Back to Sweater season Vogue.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:38:59 +0000

Lynn, you definitely improve my quality of life. thanks so much for your blog updates. I will have to go to the BS and find this latest Vogue! Thanks for telling us about it. Now I must go and find it.

By: Deborah Robson

Deborah Robson — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:14:26 +0000

Hi, Lynn:

Yes, I’ve browsed through and left the “reading” parts for when I have time. It’s THICK.

I especially like Annie’s design in the new colors, and was so glad to see the map of the world sweater revisited. It was a stunner when it first appeared. I like the Mari Lynn Patrick ribbed design (26) to the “I might even wear it” level. One that I would love to knit but probably wouldn’t wear is Debbie Bliss’s cover-section cardigan (delicious cables). On many others, I see details I like (or don’t see details enough, in some of the dark photos). Good food for thought, and tons of it.

I thought it was very cool that they got all of the magazine’s editors together for a group photo.