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We've got three great tops for you this month: the casual ribbed cardigan on the cover, an elegant beaded cardigan and a classic Argyle slipover.
For the blokes, we've got a casual man's cabled jumper, perfect for the weekend and a pair of fab cricket socks. The cricket socks are to fit women and men, and their classic cream cables are fab for guys or girls. We're particularly thrilled with these socks, as they were designed by production editor, Miriam McDonald.
We've also got a fab crochet bag, ideal for all your essentials when you're heading to the beach or for a knit in at a cafe and a great bedroom set for teens in a fun very richly textured yarn.
Alan has been hard at work as usual, and this issue we'd like to introduce you to Cyber Sam, Alan Dart's knitted robot.
He's very cleverly detailed and all the science fiction fans and geeks we know want one – perhaps it's time to teach them to knit...
We've got two great gifts for you this month, and they work so well together! As well as a beautiful sock pattern from Fyberspates we've got these fab double-pointed needle set, complete with beaded point protectors so you can keep your knitting safe wherever you are.
Other great things to look out for in issue 55 include:
- Find out what happens to the knits donated to the Ethel Brolls Romanian Orphan Knitting Appeal.
- Rock singer Kelley Deal talks about her new knitting book.
- Find out about UK Ravelry Day.
I tried subscribing to see if I could get issues faster that way, and I found that 1) the special gift offers you have with subscriptions are not good outside of the UK, and 2) that you do not accept subscriptions in the US. Since you do accept subscriptions in Canada, what is the difference? Canadian postage tends to be higher than US postage (according to my Canadian friends), so why not accept subscriptions in the US.
Finally, the prices we pay in the bookstore are much higher than we would pay by subscription, even though we don't get the value of the additional subscription offers and competition participation.
Since this magazine is marketed in the US, is there any way you can fix these problems for US readers?
Posted by Lethe (127.0.0.1) on May 29, 2009 at 05:21 PM BST #
Unfortunately, for legal reasons, we are only able to accept competition entries from UK residents.
I understand there's been a problem with the online ordering system for US customers, so they've shut it down while they fix it, but you can still order by phone.
I will pass on your comments to the subscription team regarding the offers, and perhaps in the future they will be able to make them more widely available.
Happy knitting,
Elizabeth
Posted by Elizabeth Bagwell (127.0.0.1) on June 01, 2009 at 11:22 AM BST
Website: http://www.simplyknitting.co.uk #