Your Knitting Life Ceases Publication

Your Knitting Life, the two-year-old knitting magazine formerly known as Knitting Today, has announced that it will cease publication with the June/July 2012 issue, which is on newsstands now. Editor-in-chief Theresa Gonzalez, who has been with the magazine from the beginning, said in a statement on Facebook that she is “very saddened” by the decision by publisher Future Publishing to close the magazine.

“I believe we produced some great patterns from a very creative design and edit team,” she said. “Unfortunately, the company has decided to focus its efforts on other areas.”

Future’ Publishing’s craft portfolio includes Simply Knitting and the Knitter, two UK knitting magazines. Their only U.S. craft property is Crochet Today, the popular magazine on which Your Knitting Life was based.

It’s always sad to see publications go, particularly in the field of knitting. Here’s wishing the best to all involved in the magazine.

[Photo by Your Knitting Life.]

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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Gene Byrge says
July 26, 2012 at 10:40 am
I think the decision to cease publication is terrible. Some of the best patterns I’ve seen have been from this mag (when it was Knitting Today – why the name change? It doesn’t seem to have done any good….)
Any chance a US publisher will pick it up? I really hate to see it go….

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