Knitters -- 25 years and going strong!

Knitters just published their 100th issue ... and it's a huge, double-issue packed with amazing designs by some of the best in the biz. It's a glorious expression of knitting as art ... and you can get a free copy!  Yep, Knitters, to thank their subscribers/patrons for the 25years of readership, is allowing free download of this double-issue!  You do have to download the Zinio Reader software ... which is free and allows you to read many publications (including National Geographic!) online or from a downloaded copy on your iPad, Mac or PC through a purchased subscription.  Bottom-line, with this offer from Knitters, you not only get a free copy of the magazine but also the chance to try out Zinio!  A win-win ...

I've been subscribing/reading Knitters for 20+ years, having first found a copy on my honeymoon in Florida.  It's a great magazine that has stood the test of time and really created a wonderful resource for beginner knitters through to expert! 

Now, if I could just get Rick Mondragon to publish one of my designs in Knitters -- altho, come to think of it, I did get a baby sweater in there years back (which actually made it into the Knitter's Dozen: Babies & Toddler!).

Happy knittin'

Mary C. Gildersleeve

By Hand, With Heart -- hand-knit designs
bhwh.mary@gmail.com

Online -- Free Knitting Patterns

OK, I'm cheap -- and I love seeing other's knitting patterns, not so much to make them as written, but to see new techniques or get ideas that I can then adapt to something else.

WELL, have I got a great site for y'all today: Free Knitting Patterns from Julie at "Little Cotton Rabbits". Here's an example of today's posting -- gorgeous, knitted Easter eggs to fill baskets! She has also posted the charts and blank graph paper so you can chart your own! Aren't these cute? She has you knit them flat, seam them and stuff them .... I'll probably make some, but I'll do them in-the-round so I don't have to seam (I HATE seaming!) ... also, I might make them with a bulky and fill them and use a drawstring at one end as "easter baskets" this year!

I love knitting and love thinking of knitting -- oh, if I only had more time TO KNIT!