gill1946 - 17 May 2008 10:28 PM
I forgot.....His (ALAN DART) new book is out and all his designs are in it including the ARK. I already have most of his stuff from the Womans Weekly from years ago. I stopped getting WW when they started to go for the younger market and stopped doing the knitting patterns in favour of “trendy” stuff.
Hi Gill,
I remember as a child looking forward to my mum’s Woman’s Weekly mag arriving with the newspaper each week!! I was probably one of its youngest fans at the time.
At that age it was the pattern’s I was waiting for and would knit things up for my little sisters if mum had spare bits and pieces suitable. Mum must have found it a good way to keep her eldest quiet and happily occupied while she tended to my younger sisters, I look back and realise how crafty she was, if I complained I could not master something she would say she was busy just now but if I kept trying til she had time she would help me sort it out, rather than sit with me and show me immediately, I guess that way I sorted most problems out before she turned up! That was probably when I learned to experiment and make alternatives work with a little trial and error - needs must, that kinda thing -
Every now and again I buy one in the hope that they have eased back into the old formula but like you am dissappointed with the ‘new’ version.
When I went to secondary school we had a permanent charity table and pupils and staff took in stuff to sell and the money raised went to ‘War on Want’. I took all the stuff I made in as I was addicted to making anything and mum did not want the clutter of all the finished things. My school reports regularly said that if I had spent half as much time with schoolwork as I had on my charitable makes I might have had a chance of passing something ! Well I still knit sew and crochet everything I can so it set me up for a happy 
life anyway!!!! 
I prefer DOOGIE.
