Autumn Styles
Autumn has arrived – and with it, knitting season. This month it’s all
about cocooning: shutting out the world and hunkering down with your
craft. We’ve brought together some beautifully comforting designs, from
Bronagh Miskelly’s stunning cabled sweater dress Isla to Jo Allport’s casual Jyna top in Wendy’s cool cotton blend Purity and Natalie Smart’s gorgeous Ember,
knitted in a natural shade of British Bluefaced Leicester wool from
West Yorkshire Spinners. Plus an original design by Lauren Aston – if
you’re into extreme knitting you’ll be able to whip up her lovely
woven-effect blanket Weave Found Love in no time, and it will
keep you warm for many winters to come. We’ve also got some great
features to read as well as our selection of knits. Have you ever
noticed how few black faces we see in media and social media
representations of knitters? A group of crafty Instagrammers is setting
out to change all that, and our regular contributor Jeanette Sloan
writes all about it on page 12. On page 16, Gill Guest looks at how
spies have used knitting to transmit coded messages – and how you can
encode secrets into your own projects. Anyone worried about coping with
seasonal affective disorder as days grow darker this season should turn
to page 14, where Rosemary Davidson, co-author of new book Craftfulness,
shares how knitting helps her in an ongoing struggle with manic
depression. All in all, it’s a bumper autumn issue – so stop everything
and start cocooning!
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Format
- Zeitschrift
- Herkunftsland
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