When I was out doing my last
minute Christmas shopping on 23 December – I found the latest issue of the Noro
Knitting Magazine. I did not know it
was out yet – it has not been mentioned in any of the newsletters that I get
from various companies.
Anyway it is just as good as
previous issues - it is full of inspirational patterns.
I like the cover design - which is an entrelac blanket – but there are
several other lovely patterns and interesting articles. There is an interview with the designer Jenny
Watson and another with the Canadian fibre artist Monika Kinner-Whalen who uses
Noro for embroidery. I have done some of
this in the past. It can be interesting
to knit something fairly plain and then embroider something complicated on
top. Maybe I will have another go at
that in 2016 – I will add it to the list!
My favourite pattern in the
magazine is a “modular mitered blanket” knitted in 2 shades of Silk Garden –
one multi and one solid. It is similar
to an idea I had a few months ago to use up some of my Kureyon. My blanket will really be completely
different as I intend to use a different yarn, in a different way with a
different sized needles and a different number of stitches for each square –
but they will both be from garter-stitch modular knitted squares!
In the next few days I intend to
draft a list of “things to knit in 2016” – I wonder how many of them I will
actually make.
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