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.

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.

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…