A word about the summer issue of IK
The latest edition of Interweave Knits is editor Melanie Falick's last, and it's a lovely swan song. (You'll see when you click that IK has yet to post the summer issue on the web site.) Given the summer-into-fall focus, seasons many of us barely bother with, the magazine offers a trove of designs to make knitters' fingers itch. I adore Joan McGowan-Michael's Luminous Lace Camisole on the front--you A-cuppers out there, have at it--and Veronik Avery's Shimmer Aran is a doll baby with left and right-leaning cables giving this little raglan its girly shape. Faina Letoutchaia's Forest Path Stole is a masterpiece in suri alpaca and the men's Echo Lake Cardigan made me want to whip out my size 7's (but with a gauge of 29 sts to 4"...I love you honey, but...)
As with any IK issue there are some klinkers. Despite the buzz on the Knit List about the Kokopelli Bag, it suffers from the great-idea-wrong-scale school of design, an error which lends the bag it's saggy blob-like silouette. It almost screams, "Felt me some more." And what's up with that poncho? Somebody block the poor thing.
But this is also why IK is so cool; the staff takes chances, tries to stretch the boundaries of the medium and showcases the classic as well as fringey ideas popping from the minds of American knitters.
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