Let's Knit Magazine - Your knitting, your style

Thanks for the tip on the forum.  After my school run this morning I jumped the bus to Liverpool and raided the wool store in Lewis’s.  Spent a bit but saved a lot, Debbie Bliss and Rowan, unfortunately could only get Ecru in Rowan Denim.  Thought I’d try the Rowan Summer Tweed in denim colours instead to make my son a jumper.  Gorgeous cash soft in baby pink and some Debbie Bliss silk.

The icing on the cake: got this month’s issue on the way home, what a happy day. Gonna sit with my feet up and read it now.

Oh happy day!!

well done you!

well done! Sounds like an idyllic kinda day, Jane

O what to do! Keep Surfing LK or take a look at the John Lewis Website for bargains…

I feel like the Guv’nor in Time Gentlemen please - look at these barmans hands, look at me, don’t look at me.

Do I sound completely mad?  Hope not!

GGrrr very jealous. But congrats on the bargains.

Hi all, been trawling round the shops today, trying to get the lk mag, but not one shop had it. Someone had better have it tommorrow, cant go all wkend without it. 

Is it just me or do others find that too?  That when you find a magazine you like, you have trouble getting hold of it?  That’s why (and imagine quite a smug voice now!) I subscribed to it when it was just starting out.  So I don’t miss out, which is obviously good.  Only thing is I think I might not be around when the next issue is sent out - but then there’s the breaks - can’t be in two places at once can we!

Yeah, it’s so annoying. I think what they tend to do is just order so many issues, and then you have to subscribe. Do you think they’re trying to tell us something?

Quite possibly!  I do like getting my mags through the post, because I always seem to be surprised by their arrival!

quote] I think what they tend to do is just order so many issues, and then you have to subscribe

That’s true but I also think that as they have so many mags they know they will sell gazillions of - like OK Hello Cosmo etc it probably won’t matter if they lose a knitting magazine which may only sell a few hundred copies.  I was speaking to a lady in Smiths when I was trying to get hold of another magazine, and she said that there are limits to the amounts of differing magazines they get in, and that quite often it will depend on the area they are based in, as to what mags they take a chance on.

Yes before I subscribed I politely hassled our local W H Smiths in Morpeth where I work and asked if they would be selling LK (this was from issue 3, I’d accidently discovered issue 2 when visiting my son in London and I got hooked immediately!) At the time they said they would definately ‘not be bothering’ with it as they’d already got a couple of alternative knitting mags that were available. So I went online and subscribed from issue 4 and in the mean time I managed to find no. 3 by dragging hubby Bri all over the Northeast!! (Borderbooks proved to be the place to try, both in Tyneside and London) Now that I get LK through the post, W H smith in Morpeth do get a few in but I’m glad I subscribe and don’t rely on them as I got the feeling my patronage wasn’t worth their while.