The Knitting Fiend

This item from Adriafil caught my eye. Maybe it looks more atttractive in real life, but somehow, that lace fringe looks awfully floppy there. And couldn’t the photographer have posed the model to look a big more dynamic?

Oh well… It’s not as though hand knitters might hope to look elegant when stepping out to buy groceries.

This specimen of handknit fuglyness appeared in a 2004 Lion Brand catalog and saved for posterity by Siege who said:

That sweater on the left is about the fugliest thing I’ve ever seen. Is it art? Is it a sweater? WTF is it exactly?

Evidently, these appeared at a student knitting exhibit. Yes. Too much studying can do strange things to young people’s minds.

I loved ali’s suggestion that hat I showed on Friday was a portabella mushroom. Here we have more from the “Miscellaneous Fungii Collection”. This one appears in MaggiKnits, “The Gathered” Look. Are you wondering what the front looks like? Well, here goes!  

 
I know some of you may not be aware of Maggie Jackson’s products. Evidently, she is a stickler for perfection and markets her own line of yarns created so you can replicate her vision exactly.