Tuesday, June 23, 2009

What people did before everyone had a blog

If you were a knitter in the olden days of 2003, and you wanted to share your "hobby (gigantic understatement)" you could put out a zine*... if you were very clever and could draw and had a sense of humour. And Aimee Hagerty did!**


I just bought this at a yard sale for a quarter. It's got a catchy cover, don't you think?




There are articles (one by Amy Singer; is that our Amy Singer?) and cool cartoons, as well as knitting book reviews and actual knitting content, like a pattern for leg warmers that flare at the bottom "to fit over your punk-ass boots."

Plus the all-important lists: seven good places to knit in Seattle, three records to knit by, Kool-Aid flavors I've used in yarn-dyeing... All this for a quarter!

And if one is a complete geek about these things, there is a Facebook fan page!

* I just read Carrioke's 6-year-blogiversary post, so indeed, some people were blogging in the olden days!

** Aimee Hagerty Johnson was also featured, not so long ago, in the KnitKnit book.
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous23/06/2009, 12:11

    THat is so cute, especially the punk-ass legwarmers. I may need to make some. But... if you're doing this sort of thing, (and drawing cartoons takes Quite Some Time), you're not knitting. Does not compute.

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  2. Mary Lou24/06/2009, 09:13

    What a great find! I haven't thought about 'zines in a while.

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  3. Rosie24/06/2009, 14:34

    That looks amazing: what a find!

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  4. Anonymous25/06/2009, 19:45

    What a fun find....thanks again for all your wonderful links and info as well as showing us your knitting.
    jan

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