I don’t know if I am being particularly bitchy today, but when I came across the following pattern note on Ravelry, I stopped in my tracks:
When I’m knitting a Jared Flood pattern, I feel like he’s making love to me. When I finish a Jared Flood pattern, I feel like I just gave birth to his child.
I feel this quote is almost worthy of a lolcat picture – you know the “U R DOING IT WRONG” type – because either I’m not knitting the right kind of patterns or the quoted knitter has not been involved in the right kind of love-making. Also, I know that seaming stuff is seen as a painful process but it is as painful as child birth? Really? And, finally, I just find the pattern note a touch on the creepy side of things.
But I do think I am in a bitchy mood today. I spent my lunch catching up with blogs and after a few reads I decided I had had enough of self-congratulatory, self-satisfied glimpses of homemade organic bread, tidy houses with expensive Scandinavian design furniture and delicate beige sweaters paraded on a series of identikit children who are all doing so incredibly well at school.
I think tonight I’ll need to crash a lot of cars on the Xbox 360 whilst eating chocolate. And possibly knit a couple of more rows on David’s sweater (I’m hoping stocking stitch will make me go completely zen).
I’ll leave you with one of the greatest Halloween costumes I’ve seen for a long, long time.. and a slightly bitchy link: Regretsy.
Thank you so much for that quote – I needed a good laugh just now. Is it wrong that I now want to go and find out exactly who wrote it on Ravelry?! It’s a whole lot more than a touch on the creepy side.
I recently discovered your blog through Lilith and am really enjoying it – some great links and interesting observations.
I absolutely heart that costume! Brilliant!
Ditto. Creepy and senseless.
Ew, that is the creepiest. I mean, I get that Jared Flood is like the only man-knit-designer out there, but still, I don’t think that the commenter is his type. Maybe it’s Jared Flood in disguise, talking about his own pattern? That would make a little bit more sense, although still quite creepy.
A rather large touch on the creepy side of thing, I’d say! Made me stop in my tracks, too…
I love your blog for being the opposite of what you describe – I like the honesty and the sense of humour :)
And, oh, thanks for the link to Regretsy – it’s great! :D
Thanks for the link to Regretsy. It’s brilliant! Failblog or Ugliest Tattoos only with craft.
That’s not the first post I’ve read this week about the Martha-Stuart-blog-problem: http://a-black-pepper.typepad.com/ablackpepper/2009/10/imperfect-life.html and http://www.acommonplacelife.com/a-commonplace-life/2009/10/19/the-trouble-with-martha.html
I like to think I post the rough with the smooth on my blog but I suppose I do edit out some of the crap. Well worth thinking about it so that we’re not assembling our own blog-rolls of peer pressure to bring back the 1950s housewife…
@Mooncalf: You have no idea how grateful I am for those two links. I confess I hadn’t thought about it in Martha Stweart terms. I thought about the Danish blogs in my usual “god, I am so fed up with Danish middle-class smugness” terms. You are right that they fall under the Martha syndrome rather than anything else. Thank you.
@Christina: No probs :)
@Birgitte: I’m guessing you know exactly the type of blog I was reacting against ;)
@Yoel and @Barbara: when I wrote “a bit on the creepy side” I was doing my usual understatement thing. I’m glad that I was not the only one to find it disturbing. I’m wondering whether it’s because Mr B. Tweed is male or if it’s because it’s .. hmm .. I’m wondering if it’s because the knitter is young and tried to write something “fun” and missing that her “fun” would be read very differently by others?
@DK: Yup!
@Tricia: Hey, glad to meet you!
Hey – it’s your blog – no need to apologize for what you put on it!
(Glad you liked the Martha Stewart post I wrote last week!)
@Amy: super-inspirational!