How well do my parents know me? They just got back from Paris last night and brought me back a lilac/lavendar purple pashmina shawl and a Phildar magazine. Awesome. My parents go to Europe for the first time in their lives and my mom finds a yarn store! It must be genetic.
The new Fall collection for Phildar landed in my inbox this morning. See the new “l’Automne Femme” magazine here…
Sadly, I was a little underwhelmed… Out of the entire collection, the only thing that I’d like to knit is the massive long cabled coat on page 17. Yum.
I bought the spring Phildar and didn’t make anything either — bubble gum colours just don’t look good on me! But it wasn’t just that — looking at the past few issues of Phildar, it seems that many of the patterns are so similar to each other: wider collar, slightly wider collar, asymmetrical zipper on the right side, asymmetrical zipper on the left side. You could probably buy one Phildar mag and then extrapolate out all the other patterns from there!
The main focus of these magazines is to push yarn sales (oh, and by the way, there are “9 new yarns to discover”) which is fine, since Phildar makes some nice yarns, but somehow I expect more… More thoughtful patterns — not just knit four flat panels and seam them up. More timeless — I don’t want to spend a month knitting something that I’ll wear for another month and then toss. Ah, I don’t know, maybe I’m asking too much. But then again, Rebecca seems to be able to put out more creative patterns for their GGH/Muench yarns and Rowan (if only they could stop including intarsia pieces) puts out some beautiful and elegant items.
Ok, enough negativity and blasphemy for this morning. I’m a stasher and hoarder by nature (you should see me buy cereal) and after all that blather, I might still go out and get this mag. After all, can’t change human nature.
Driven by an obsessive, passionate and often tumultuous relationship with colour, Felicia Lo is the owner of SweetGeorgia Yarns, a handpainted yarn and design company based in Vancouver. Founded in 2005, SweetGeorgia Yarns is about intense, relentless and unapologetic colour in luxurious natural fibres and textiles. She writes about all things knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving here at sweetgeorgia.
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