The Knitting Fiend

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1. Not too sure about anarchy, but certainly are UG-LEE.

   Comment by Nancy J (0 comments.) — 8/7/2006 @ 6:35 pm

2. I’ve noticed that more and more, magknits tends to show pattern by designers who are hawking their own yarn. Often, these designs are uninpiring; sometimes they are simply hideous. I think this is one of them.

   Comment by lucia — 8/8/2006 @ 7:24 am

3. Here’s another one for the “knit it, then let your cat chew on it” folder.

   Comment by Kathy (0 comments.) — 8/8/2006 @ 12:35 pm

4. Honestly, I could not tell what those were and had to click the link to see the pattern. Fuglissimo.

   Comment by Inky (7 comments.) — 8/8/2006 @ 4:19 pm

5. Just to clarify - I term myself an anarchist knitter because I don’t tend to stick to the absolute letter of patterns, instead choosing a different yarn to that suggested, or makeing modifications to the pattern to make it suit my preferences better.

   Also, the yarn used was given to me, having been spun by someone else. I’m not hawking anything.

   … oh, and lastly, there’s nothing to say that these can’t be pretty girly girl wristwarmers when made with pretty girly girl yarn. That’s the joy of handspun, every pair is different, which is why the pattern was written to allow people to use whatever yarn they wanted - however bonkers (or not) it is.

   Comment by pixeldiva (1 comments.) — 8/8/2006 @ 5:00 pm

6. I thought this month’s magknits was an interesting one. I have a lot of handspun yarn around and sometimes need inspiration for a smaller object to make with it.

   And I like how the patterns were made for yarn from different independent spinners. As far as I can tell the only pattern designed by the person who made the yarn was the one by the editor, Kerrie Allman.

   Comment by Noelle (2 comments.) — 8/8/2006 @ 10:01 pm

7. If I can just add my h’appence worth

   Kerrie actually termed the issue, a handspun challenge when she floated the idea and sent a hank of random skein of handspun to each of the designers with the instructions “make something with it - but you can’t make a scarf”. I think the variety of patterns that came out of that is quite interesting.
   I was the boring one My handspun told me it wanted to be a hat, so that was what it became

   Comment by Janine (4 comments.) — 8/9/2006 @ 1:53 am

8. I see– that would explain all the handspun! I guess with all the bloggers buying spinning wheels, that makes sense. All those spinner/ knitters should love the issue.

   I knit with some thick and thin hand spun while in grad school. (I didn’t spin it. There was a woman with a knitting / spinning / weaving boutique.)

   Still, I never got interested in spinning. (I did get intersted in machine knitting. I kind of have a thing for technology!)

   Comment by lucia — 8/9/2006 @ 5:55 am

9. I gotta confess, I kinda like the handwarmers: fun, funky, slightly silly … OK, very silly. They remind me a bit of sea anemomes, with their bright colors and waving tendrils (and go-ahead-and-laugh, come-too-close-SLURP-dinner attitude).

   OTOH, perhaps i’m too easily amused.

   Comment by Gwyndolyn O'Shaughnessy (0 comments.) — 8/9/2006 @ 12:57 pm

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