Comments on: Anarchist Knitter

By: Nancy J

Nancy J — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:35:08 +0000

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

By: lucia

lucia — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:24:40 +0000

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.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:35:56 +0000

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

By: Inky

Inky — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 22:19:05 +0000

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

By: pixeldiva

pixeldiva — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:00:58 +0000

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.

By: Noelle

Noelle — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:01:45 +0000

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.

By: Janine

Janine — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:53:55 +0000

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

By: lucia

lucia — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:55:07 +0000

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!)

By: Gwyndolyn O'Shaughnessy

Gwyndolyn O'Shaughnessy — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:57:29 +0000

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.