Cover My Ass In Wool

Dear Vogue Knitting Editors,
You are killing me. I beg of you...Please stop featuring Koigu trousers, jackets, and skirts. No, really -- do stop with the colorblock Koigu trousers. Those were scary.

The modular skirt from the Autumn issue...the white jacket from the Winter issue...and now the adorable pink skirt for Spring/Summer? Personally, the modular skirt was too long for my body type and a tad too dark for my personal taste, but I could see that with a different color palette and a shortened length -- it would be killer.

Pink isn't my cup of tea either, but the Spring/Summer cover skirt knitted of Koigu is so sweet and charming. I feel that if I don't knit this for myself, I will be an incomplete knitter. Of course, my completion would require some color other than pink, but that's just quibbling.

So inspiring is that Koigu skirt that it was all the incentive I needed to lug my ass to the gym at 6:30am today.

Sincerely,
Slimming Down for Koigu in Dutchess County



While not every pattern spoke to me, I am smitten with quite a few. I do love those corsets, slip dresses, and such, but I'm not sure that I have the body, the moxie, or the destination to wear those clothes. At present, they are the clothes of my fantasies.

Eliminating the styles that appealed to me but that I'd not knit or wear in my present life and body form, I was left with a small pool of favorities. Favorites that I honestly would knit and wear. Maybe I am a boring and unadventurous knitter, but I fail to see the reason in buying yarn and knitting a pattern that will be shoved to the back of the closet just for the sake of "learning experience" or a "knitting challenge".

I'm very stingy with my yarn money and knitting time that way.