Here are some of my observations, after reading my last Textile magazines I have bought this month. What do you guys think, do you have similar peeves....?? With magazines becoming more and more expensive, I do think that they should get a right.....LOL
Starting with Spin Off. I wanted to let everyone know that Meg Swansen has published the Opinionated Knitter: Elizabeth Zimmermann Newsletter
1958 1968. As always there are lots of great articles about spinning as well as knitting. This is one of the magazines I really like. It is well laid out, and easy to read, with good articles.Threads magazine, I used to subscribe to and cancelled their subscription when they focused on sewing only Now I will buy the odd copy if I finds something interesting they have to share. Low and behold, like so many magazines think they have to do, they have changed their layout of the magazine. God forbid we stick with what works. Now you have a hard time diferenciating between aricles and adds. I still think that they share lots of great ideas. Handwoven went throught that same need of changing the looks of the magazine and it drives me crazy.
Many of the knitting magazines, suffer from the same illment. With knitting It also helps when they do not let you flip the pages back and forth to read a pattern, e.g. explanations are in the back or the front, away from the pictures and the gauge informations. I take paper and pencil and rewrite what I want to knit so I have it all in one spot. This flipping back and forth is really a problem when the pattern is complicated. One pattern should be all written at once. Handwoven used to have a picture of the item with part of the explanations, and the rest was in a worksheets at the end of the magazine, all chopped up. Some years ago they did change that and that was a great impovement for me.
What do you think am I alone in this
Els