A Stranger in a Strange Land..

..was how I felt when I bought my first beading magazine a while back. It's a whole new world which I've never been too familiar with. I understand that for some people this is just as familiar as our beloved knittings patterns:





And that for some people, thinking/buying/dreaming/fantasizing/imagining beads is just as tantalizing as yarns are for us:




But hey, there's something familiar here - I can see a crochet hook involved! Maybe there's something to be learned and applied to knitting also from this craft... hmm, that wakes up my imagination...

But do I really need/have time for another obsession?!

Also, yesterday I unfortunately got my hands on the latest Moda magazine (Finnish knitting/sewing magazine). It's just soooooo depressing - no inspirational patterns at all. But hey, they did mention Kaffe Fassett and Noro yarns, so I guess they are on the right tracks...

I don't know how I managed to live at all when I was only using this magazine as my source of knitting patterns (before I found out about the wonderful world of internet knitting community and foreign magazines). Harsh criticism, but it's a question of taste. Granted, they do have a couple of nice patterns for autumn coats for sewing - maybe this would be something to try..