I’m surprised over the way people talk about the Interweave knits magazine on some forums and blogs, like the magazine used to contain only brilliant patterns and now doesn’t contain anything of value. I disagree with this, and think that it’s possibly just a shift in the target audience that has happened.
I love a lot of the patterns they produce, like my saiorse shawl, and my current WIP the spidery tank .
I even like their models, and I don’t say this often about a magazine, especially not about knitting magazines. But in this most resent issue (summer 09) at least one of the models is a tattoed girl with stretched lobes. And it looks like the model in the spidery tank pictures has stretched lobes as well.
Any mainstream mag that embraces modded people gets props from me. Also because it to me feels more like real people, not fashion models. It’s nice to see “normal” (for me at least) people wearing the clothes on a street corner instead of overly stylized shots in laughable poses 
I’m loving the lace pattern in this as well, it’s one of those that’s very simple to knit, but transforms completely from what you imagine that it’s supposed to look like from the instructions. It’s interesting but simple. Usually I don’t work from the written instructions but prefer to use charts, sometimes I even dismiss projects because the pattern lacks charts. On this project I’m glad I didn’t. I did drew up a chart just to see how the stitches merged on the paper and it’s interesting. It created a slanting chart, showing how knitting isn’t back and forth but a spiral, and this points it out particularly well. It simply wouldn’t have worked I suspect on a flat garment unless it was knit on the bias. This fascinates me.
