Letters From The Editors

The scoop from the editors

A 15-year sprint

I've been told I'm a bit of a hurrier. Well, somehow I've rushed my way into 15 years' worth of Knitty. How the heck did that happen?

I'm glad it did. I've met some of the most dear people in my life through this magazine. I've heard stories that some of you have had the same experience. Plus there's the patterns and stuff.

To celebrate 15 years of Knitty, we're going to throw some serious tributes out for y'all: patterns that take their inspiration from another in our archives. In this issue, you can see tributes to Monkey, Vinter Lue, Nymphalidea, Abrazo and Serrano. We have more coming throughout the next 3 issues. Plus a whole bunch of patterns that are inspired by we-don't-know-what-but-we-like-it.

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Our beloved Chris Gernon, SysAdmin of wonder and light, is on family leave for the forseeable future. We miss him terribly and send so much love.

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Making this a little easier to take is our new friend, Steve Laundrie, who comes to us with an impeccable pedigree and the personal recommendation of my new day-job boss. He's stepped into Chris' shoes admirably and now is working on getting Knitty fully SSL'd.

Steve doesn't knit. I'm okay with that. He's a whiz with the servers, and we're very happy to have him on our team. Welcome, Steve.

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It's more true than ever now: we only continue to exist because of our Patrons who carry 3/4 of the financial load of supporting Knitty. We are also grateful for the Advertisers who choose to place their messages on our pages. If you can, please support them when you need to make a purchase. We all take care of each other, right? A reminder: ads now start as low as $60 per issue! To learn more about advertising with Knitty, pop over to our Rate Card.

If you're not already a Patron, please consider joining us. We won't survive without ongoing support from our readers, and lots of little donations make such a huge difference in keeping us here! Life happens and Patrons come and go according to their own personal situations. So if you haven't joined us yet, we'd love to welcome you. This system only works if we can hold the number of Patrons steady.

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Amy Singer
[editor, Knitty]

Rabbits

Sometimes I just fall down the same rabbit hole more than once. This issue’s Knittyspin column about using an overplied 2-ply in place of a 3-ply had my brain whirling over something I thought I had figured out. There are reasons I use this overplied yarn rather than a 3-ply and you can read about in the article, but that’s not what had me grinning.

I’ve used this yarn and loved it for years. It’s my default yarn. I like how it looks. That’s what started me using it over and over, then I noticed how it kinda works like a 3-ply. But something I’ve never done, never looked at in all of the years of using it, is how it looks in comparison to 3-ply and a balanced 2-ply. I’ve never spun and knit those specific samples and looked at them side by side.

Wow! I was really surprised, and I fell down the rabbit hole of this yarn again. I wan to make more samples and just stare at them and squeeze them and kind of squee over them.

Keep sampling, my spinners. Even your default yarn has something to teach you!

Be sure to check out Bosco by Mari Chiba, a cardigan knit from Manos yarn, with the yoke knit from Manos fiber spun into a singles. It’s a pretty reminder that a sweater doesn’t have to be all handspun.

If you have an idea for a project or article for knittyspin write me. Knittyspin submission guidelines are here.

If you have fiber, spindles, books, or other spinny products or tools that you'd like us to review, you'll find information how how to get your products in to the hands of our reviewers here. I love to talk about it all.

Jillian Moreno
[editor, Knittyspin]