So…
I have this new drink bottle —
— and I want to knit a bottle cozie.
I’m thinking some kind of ribbing, so it hugs at the narrow part and fits around the wide parts. This idea eliminates making a felted cozie (I have a couple of cute patterns for those).
Perhaps an undulating ribbing…
The thing is, I want it to be absorbent, too. Wool, then, or cotton??
Any ideas appreciated.
I am perhaps slow to become aware of the availability of digital subscriptions to the knitting magazines, but I think I am happy about it.
Usually, I browse the current issues of knitting magazines at my local bookstore, then select which ones to purchase. Subscriptions are certainly less expensive per issue than buying off the newstand, but we all know not every issue of every magazine is a “keeper.”
So, recently I noticed that Creative Knitting (you can get a sample digital issue at that link) and Verena US edition are available as digital subscriptions at a lower price than the print subscriptions. I will be placing my orders shortly.
I see some real benefits to this option. First, issues should be immediately available; no waiting for or loss in the mail. Second, while I like to look at magazines (and read books) in hand, when I want to knit a pattern, I like to have the instructions handy on my computer or PDA. Third, storage (and weight). How many of us sacrifice our magazine stash for space. And space brings me to another advantage — at least, I hope it will be an element of the digital issues — and that is organization. Being able to find that particular pattern which you cannot remember the cutsie title of the article, or the issue the magazine, just the color, or type, or technique, or yarn!
Primarily, though, I wonder if — and hope that — this option may enable the publications to continue to exist. We’ve all heard the falling circulation for newspapers, and with the hundred and hundreds (at least it seems that way) of magazines now being published, can they be far behind?
Off to check which other magazines are offering digital subscriptions . . .
{such a} FickleStitcher 
