Tradition....

I do not usually recommend magazines, as I find that I love them all. Even the glossy ones with all the ads. I'm kind of addicted to the slippery pages and colorful pictures. I tend to find something to love about them all, so I don't recommend them as surely no one else has this same problem. They are asking for solid information and on this front I have a hard time being objective. However, I may have found something worth crowing about. Knitting Traditions - is a bi-monthly magazine from Piece Work, which is published by Interweave Press. Now, you will have noticed that I said this was a magazine and I suppose that it fits that description in that there are ads and glossy pictures, but it also so much more.

In the current issue that appears on new stands until mid-May, there is article after article about knitting from all over the world. I mean it is more like a knitting history book than a magazine. Not only will you learn about the people of the Dales in Yorkshire and how fathers, mothers, and children all knitted as a form of income, you'll get patterns as well. The patterns might be socks, mittens or lace and they are spectacular. Because there is a story along with the pattern, you feel like you're there with the very people in the story. It's an immense feeling!

Knitting Traditions is not just a magazine that you read, file a few pattern pages and forget about. It's a publication that envelopes you in the roots and history of our art form. It's a publication that you'll save in a pretty binder and bring out time and time again. It is like having your own knitting encyclopedia at your fingertips. It is a joy to read and it is fascinating to read the history of those knitters that came before us and to practice the skills that they themselves used.

So, I highly recommend that you pick-up a copy of this "magazine" and find yourself a quiet spot to sit with a cuppa and take a trip back in knitting time.

Knit on, Read on...
The Knitty Scribe.