I’d love to see this local knitting quarterly thrive. They just put out a call for design contributions for the coming issues. I think someone needs to contribute a “Windy City Wrap” or an L-train sock pattern.
The first issue of Chicago’s “irreverent quarterly yarn craft magazine … devoted to the irreverent Chicago yarn arts” was released in early April. I had read about it beforehand and got my very own copy when visiting Chicago.
Don’t you just love the cover? (Highlighted by a tablecloth on my garden table …).
It’s a first issue, a baby quarterly, and you can tell this baby is loved. Kim Richardson – the editor-in-chief, photographer, graphic as well as contributing designer, and ‘the baby’s mother’ – put together 56 pages, packed with information, interviews, reviews (books, yarns, gadgets), patterns, and more with regard to knitting, crochet, and spinning.
The magazine is her attempt to bring Chicago’s knitting and crochet community together in one place, to share patterns and stories about knitting in the city, to talk about upcoming events, to learn new things, to meet new people, and to make ……
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All She Wants To Do Is Knit 
So cool! Makes me wish I lived in Chicago!