Knitty Winter is up!

[carbonel]

Here's the pattern index.

I got through the first half without bookmarking anything, then ended up making note of Darrowby, Fitful Head, Sallah, and Nennir. Not that that means I'll actually get around to knitting any of them, though Sallah has the highest probability, most likely.

Comments

[historychick49]

I'm just favoriting Chimaera. A few of the other patterns look interesting, but don't really grab me right now.

[lainiest]

Nothing really jumps out at me either but that's been the case with me and Knitty for a long while now; I've gone multiple issues in a row without checking it because it's just so 'eh' to me.

That said, Hibernate is sort of adorable but I don't think I have the patience for a blanket even if it is in a super huge gauge. I might look at it again a bit further down the line when I have more money to throw at 12 skeins of yarn for one project, though.

caaaarbs! was more interesting when I misread and thought it was craaaabs!. A couple of the sweaters are nice. The pages are super slow to load for me, so based only on the preview images I'm digging Ruth and Kittiwake.

[lainiest]

Now that I've actually gotten a good look at it, Chimaera is actually pretty cool. I have absolutely no confidence picking up stitches on a heel flap (short row heels ftw), but I might actually work on that to try the pattern out.

Edit: And now that I've actually READ the pattern I see that it's not a heel flap at all. Hmm hmm!!

[m0rbidm00n]

The sock patterns are cute, and of course the shawl by West is awesome. Other than that, most of it was meh...

[tabbyclaw]

221B makes my fannish heart happy, even more so than the TARDIS shawl from last issue.

[dandelion]

I am irritated, once again, by Knitty's complete absence of standard sizing. There is no way that a 38" bust is an XS size. If you don't want to provide an XS size, that's fine, but don't try and pretend you have!

How difficult would it be for them to say "XXS is this many inches, XS is this many inches, S is this many", etc, and then if a person doesn't want to make an XS or a 5X or whatever size, they can leave those out - but at least, at a glance you can work out if a pattern's feasible. It's not technically that easy to make a pattern 8" smaller than the designer's lowest size, and it's nice to know immediately that that's required. You could even then have a size-based search.

[tephralynn]

The sizing is nuts. I'm anywhere from an 1x to a 5x and there's nothing quite so irritating as seeing a pattern that has multiple X sizes and finding that the largest is still smaller than I need. I have lost nearly fifty pounds, and I'm gleeful at being a 2X in off the rack clothing (for the most part), so having to upsize a 4/5X pattern one or more sizes to fit me stings.

[yourepretty]

agreed. i really wish that they would standardize their sizes. i've knitted a number of patterns from knitty over time, and yet i still find myself starting projects multiple times in order to get the sizing correct. they have a standard list of abbreviations. they can't have a standard list of sizes and how ease would figure in to their sizing structure? why not?