Making Stories is the industry's only ad-free magazine, highlighting companies and makers who focus on sustainability, transparency, fairness and equity in their work. The publishers hope to inspire and enable crafters to make conscious and informed decisions about the materials they use and companies they support. Issue 5 is 136 ad-free pages exploring the hidden qualities of plants and nature to shed a light on the essential role they play for us and the planet. The 12 knitwear designs featured in the issue celebrate nature in all its glorious ways through texture, shape and form – as do the artists and writers who dive deep into the connection between nature and making in their works. IN ADDITION TO THE DESIGNS, ISSUE 5 INCLUDES THESE ESSAYS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Marina Skua celebrates the first signs of spring in her beautiful poem “Emerging” Camille Rosselle explores the connection of fiber and music in her comic “The Song” Inês Peixoto dives into the threads that connect fiber and nature in her essay “Material Connections”
