While in Moncton on Saturday Kelly and I each got a different issue of Sandra. I love this magazine; it’s full of beautiful patterns and cheap to boot. I’ve got one from several years ago and there are sweaters in it that I would happily make and wear today. This issue, Dec. 2007, is a mixed bag with some great pieces and some rather odd ones. Here’s a variation on the cabled yoke sweater that we’ve been seeing everywhere. There are a lot of cables in this issue, over half the designs have cables or twisted-stitch/ faux-cable patterns. Most of the rest have some other sort of deep texture, too.
There’s also a goodly portion of tunics with bell-like sleeves. This green one really caught my eye. I like the idea of the cables and colourwork combined, the contrast of colour and texture. I don’t know as if I’d make this exact sweater but I’m certainly inspired by it. I can never stick to a pattern anyway. And I would definitely make it shorter. The line where the cables stop is more the length I like, about the top of the hips. I’m too short to really be a tunic person.
Speaking of oversized: I thnk it was totally appropos that I found this one while in a store I visited a lot in my teen years, because this design is straight out of the 80’s. Even the sunglasses on her head mimic the scarf that would have been tied around her head back then. Mind you, a real 80’s girl would have had her collar turned up, giant poofy bangs, leggings instead of slacks and a double-wrap belt full of grommets. And even though this gal has some broad shoulders, shoulder pads would have been de rigeur.
Ah, the days of my youth. Like, totally 
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