Winter 2006 Vogue Knitting

The new Vogue Knitting arrived and I have had a wonderful time perusing it this weekend.  It is a very good issue, well done with lots of good ideas and interesting patterns.  I thought the last issue was quite good as well although I might not have sounded quite as enthusiastic as I felt when I wrote about it, and this one is even better.

You can link to the magazine here, and photos of some of the patterns are available, unfortunately not all my favorites, a shame because I would love to show them to you.

One thing I particularly like about Vogue Knitting in general, and this issue in particular is the emphasis on fashion as opposed just to knitting.  There are all kinds of knitting magazines and all kinds of knitting information, some trendy, some traditional.  I think traditional knitting skills and patterns are great, but what I often see in craft-based publications, both geared to knitters and sewists, is that they are often not particularly geared to what is going on in the world of fashion at the time they are being published.

Now I know that fashion is not for everyone, and not everyone is interested.  They don’t need to be.  It is true that what most people wear in their day to day lives has little to do with the world of fashion. But I find it interesting.  I like the way this issue combines traditional knitting patterns and skills with some very interesting ideas that are pretty au courant.  Also most of the patterns are technically interesting and wearable, at least in some variation by someone.  I think there is very little here that someone wouldn’t want to try. In fact I can envision someone wearing almost everything here, not necessarily me.  Taste is so variable, as is style.