Thursday, April 21, 2011

Information On Mags For Continental Knitting And Other Techniques

By Angela Keller


Today, there are a lot of knitting mags (sharing facts about knitting, techniques like continental knitting, magic loop, and other stuff) in English format, but if you consider the publications in other languages, you'd be shocked to know how many knitters there are in the world. Now, we have the e-magazines which are considered as the more contemporary alternatives of the traditional ones. If the number of readers is being constrained with some magazines, the probabilities for access is much higher with those online as they address the needs of the community in a global range, without targeting a specific area on the globe.

There are lots of sites that handle knitting that have links to mags of wide circulation (both available in electronic and paper format). The requirement here is easy, considering that trends have to start somewhere in addition to the cutting edge ideas for more complex patterns. Also, to a few people these magazines serve as instructional materials, as they learn how to go from one style to another knitting technique. This is maybe the reason we even read all sorts of success stories of individuals who turned knitting into more than simply a hobby.

Many contributions to mags come from readers who present one personal invention or another to other hobbyists, and the vast majority of the time the management of the publication is made of people with big interest in such activity. Some knitters even collect mags to add as collections to their libraries as sources of inspiration to turn to when they like to try something new.

The magazines generally appear on a monthly basis and in a number of issues less than that of fashion magazines, but this is understandable as they target a specialized category of readers. International magazines are available in various languages: French, Italian, English, German and Spanish are the common ones, but sometimes there are multilingual sites with English and a national language included.

Articles on these reading materials include the following: free knit patterns, fashion collections, yarn information, season trends and suggestions, techniques (such as continental knitting, magic loop knitting, and others), etc. Some suppliers use these magazines as advertising platforms for their products to both local and international users.




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