(such a) Fickle Stitcher

This is old news over on Ravelry, but it was new to me when I ran across it at Borders last Saturday afternoon:

I couldn’t quite reconcile “Europe’s Top Knitting Magazine” with “Premier Issue” nor the New York and Illinois locations in the masthead information until I read “North American issue” in the editor’s column.

Of the fifty-plus patterns in this magazine, 41 are pictured on the contents page! There are a total of 16 ads in the 113 pages plus the back cover… and… there is only ONE subscription insert (at least in the one I picked up, nothing fell out either).

The pattern section is in the center rather than the end of the photo layout. I think I like this; the magazine might stay open to the patterns more easily this way.

There are minimal articles and columns (editor, “Runway Trends” “Web Words” and “New Bits”) — this is a pattern book at a great price! I think I’ll be checking this one again.

(There are already corrections on the website for the Summer 2008 issue, so check before you knit!)

It was pointed out to me that I haven’t posted in a long time . . . only six weeks, though I’ve posted three times at DMLA . . . I haven’t stitched in about that long is why! Only during f-2-f EGA chapter meetings: April I substituted for Rissa teaching stumbling through silk-ribbon embroidery using an old project of mine, Nosegay Pin. I can’t even remember the last time I picked up my knitting, again, except at f-2-f EGA chapter meeting in May while everyone else learn to make silk ribbon irises from Rissa!

But, I do have something new to show off . . .

This is my new transportation, a 2008 Kia Rio XL in “Cashmere Beige” — hah! there’s OKC for ya! I’m averaging about 36 MPG, driving carefully, and under the speed limit. Any one who gets peeved at me about it isn’t paying my gas, so there. (And if any one in the general Hattiesburg, MS, area is shopping for new cars, please go to http://dmckia.com and check with Lanny Lee!)

I’m looking forward to driving it to Memphis for the Tennessee Valley Region Share-A-Stitch in June . . . well, actually, DH will be driving it . . . then perhaps to Louisville with Lisa for the crewel master class with Judy Jeroy in July, followed by beading class at the JEC a few weeks later. (If I can get them to answer me about registration for class! LOL) Woo-hoo! When I went to get the link for JEC, they have finally put up the beading class registration info!

So… now I’ve posted. Heh, heh, heh.

(I wish I knew how to show here when my Dancing My Life Away blog is updated, or feed it into a page here . . . I really prefer to post things like this there.)