light pink cotton spring

A new project....The plan is to crochet some kind of shrug, suitable for cooler summer days/nights. I went for some light pink cotton yarn...unusual colour for me.
(this post will be gradually updated)

THE MAGAZINES: RUSSIA-BRAZIL-...LITHUANIA

Some time ago I began looking for crochet magazines on the net (those I have at home are just to crochet decorative items for home or too old –like fashionable jackets and sweaters...but fashionable in 1987-). Spanish magazines I’ve seen are not really interesting to me. Ah…lucky to have internet. I came across really good magazines. The best ones happened to be Russian (like Дуплет and Мoд) and Brazilian but there are many Japanese magazines worth having a look at (such as 毛糸だま –keito dama-). Why is crochet so popular in Russia and Brazil?? Mystery…the fact is that the amount of magazines from these 2 countries is pretty considerable. Crocheters are lucky ^-^.

But in some Russian forum there were links to plenty of magazines from other places and there were other interesting options such as a couple of Lithuanian magazines. I especially like the one named “Pačios”. The patterns/ideas are nice and the instructions provide schemes (otherwise there would be nothing to do)…and I like to see texts in Lithuanian…what a curious language. I told about this discovery to another linguistics-enthusiast, Hu-ang-lags, and praised page 16 (why?, don’t know…there was just text and some pattern scheme) and he even said he started looking for some magazine in Gaelic (after el-regocijo-de-ver-algo-escrito-bonitamente-en-lituano). In which less spoken languages can we find crochet magazines??? Crochet is so international that almost anything is possible.