Category Archives: Ranting

I’m feeling preachy or crabby or just need to get this off my mind.

of drama and yarn

Craft'n, Knitting, Ranting

wow,for my knitting friends out there, there is a huge fight erupting over copyrights of independent designers out there in knitting-blog land. And it is getting nasty.

This started as a simple Facebook post, but when I realized I was writing a small novel…
On one side there is a really talented and funny designer/blogger from Alex who writes a blog called a Dull Roar. She’s defending another independent designer/blogger SpillyJane who designs great color work mittens against…
An another independent blogging knitter (kitty-ears.com) who also seems to be a bit of a beginner. And after reading some of her posts, a cheesy romantic who thinks thinking about God should be part of her day and is a house wife I guess. She seems slightly clueless honestly, not evil.
And I have to admit reading some of the comments by Alex in the Ravelry thread are a little aggressive, and sadly not professional. And thats disappointing because I wanted to think she was in the right. The 2nd designer should have also removed her pattern when she learned it was so close to another, because that would be the right thing to do.
And all of this over mittens/gloves with gnomes on them. GNOMES! Happy little gnomes.

instagram gnome

And it’s was all topped off with people insulting another’s designers work and calling it ugly and a man-gina. I kind of like it, it looks hard to knit and I’m all about challenges. And if wearing a giant vagina is your thing ( i kid)  you might like it it’s called Color Craving.

Color Craving by Stephen West

I really thought the knitting world was more mature than all this.
And I think a lot of people are coming to the same conclusion (example-From flossieknits).

One commenter of the 100’s of comments I waisted my night reading mentioned this, you may have seen these fake ads floating about. No wonder I can live with out regular TV, now I need to watch some Vampire Diaries on Netflix  to calm down a bit…

where did thanksgiving go?

Miscellany, Ranting

We ran out of coffee yesterday, so I went out and got coffee after dropping my son off at school with his life size St. Bernard poster. (It took up the whole back seat!) And I stopped at Starbucks, the one I worked at for 4 years. And it was weird because I’ve only been gone a year and recognized no one that worked there. They won’t have my favorite line of coffee in stock until 2014 (Goldcoast). And they where out of honey. So overall not a rewarding visit, but whatever I didn’t throw a fit. Most of the people there put up with enough of that, I did.
But I really should have, because I didn’t realize it until I got to my car, they gave me a holiday/christmas cup.

TOO EARLY!!!

So I’m not stepping foot in one of those stores or another that forgets the that X-mas isn’t till December, or at least end of November. I’ll also do my best to avoid any who have moved Black Friday (an annoying enough day) to the Thursday evening before. And as an added bonus due mostly to being broke, we are making most gifts this year, or they are books. Which don’t count as encouraging gross commercialism, because books are awesome.

p.s. I Cleaned my desk off after taking that picture. Sorry.