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i bought 25 issues of old vogue magazines on ebay and they arrived yesterday. i bought them mainly to get my hands on ez's column (which has now evolved to be her daughter's). so far i've only paged through four issues and i had fun looking at the patterns. most of the 80's designs were ridiculous. i'd even say monstrous. big amoebic sweaters modeled by people with poofy asymmetric hairdos. god. i really should take some photos and show you.
but, so far, it's worth every penny reading ez's writing. it's nothing new, really. the ideas and opinions she submitted to vogue are the same stuff she published in her books. i just love her brand of knitting; i want to read everything she had ever written.
other than shifting through old vogues, i did some knitting on the white afghan.
afghan skein two
it's too big to be photographed on a nice well lit surface. anyway, i really like the way it turned the corner. it looks like it will take three skeins to knit up a 24" square. this afghan will either take six or eight of these squares. hm. 18 to 24 skeins. hm...
last night i also looked through knitty archives and found a few simple patterns. i'm going to try making a hooded sweater, one of my top two favorites patterns on knitty, both by rebecca hatcher. i was sold on this bit:
"Almost all finishing is worked as you go so when you're done, you're done..."
i wonder if i could start a knit-along on this sweater. may be i could talk q into it. how about you?
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