Check out this nifty little piece of fun with knit charts.
Sooo, Knitters has their spring preview up. Am I the only one who thinks things like this
look like crap? Why do people keep designing assymmetrical things? Do people really wear them? To me, it looks like someone screwed up really bad and decided to wear it anyway. Especially this one. Ick. If I saw someone actually wearing it, I’d think they had a mishap in the laundry room or got it from the thrift store. (People, if something you own is shit, don’t give it to Goodwill. Throw it away. Another rant for another day. Maybe not, what more can I say about that.) Back to the, uh, tank top(?). I’m all for being an individual and wearing what you want. I won’t laugh at you for making or wearing it but I won’t think it’s flattering on you. This isn’t even flattering on the model.
Okay, now that I got the bitchin’ out of the way, let’s see a couple of the other things.
I’m really hoping there’s a better picture of this in the magazine. This is by Jane Sowerby. Since I liked so many in Victorian Lace Today, I’m guessing I’ll really like this one. It might get added to the never ending To Do List that I never get to.
I like this. I don’t know where I’d wear it but it just looks so pretty and feminine that I want to make it anyway. Oh, I could wear it when I walk the dog.
I think I might like this one. I’d probably leave that tie off the sleeves. It looks to me that it laces up the front and ties at the top. It also looks like you could get away with wearing this one with jeans, which is what you are most likely to see me in.
This might be good for those cool nights. The thing that bugs me about hoods is that they tend to choke me. Hoods seem to think they are meant to cover my ass and try as hard as they can to reach it. They don’t care that they are still attached to the front of the neck that is cutting off my air supply.
I wasn’t going to do this but I just can’t help it. Okay, I could help it if I wanted to. And really, when you get right down to it, this thing needs help.
This comes to you courtesy of Vogue Knitting. I don’t normally make fun of people for what they wear but people, if I see one of your children with this thing on, I will laugh. I’ll also feel sorry for your poor child that you think so little of him or her to make him/her look like a baby matador. All this outfit needs to be complete is a little red cloth. Add a little stuffed black bull (bonus points awarded if you knit the bull) and you’re more than set! I’d rather see your child in something asymmetrical. Please people, do NOT put this on your child!
I’ve had to go back to the previous theme for the blog. There’s a problem in the coding of the new one that doesn’t allow me to publish posts 
March 30th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
We were just discussing asymmetrical knits and WTF? at SNB the other night. I think what makes me hate that top design even more is that its knit in what appears to be self striping yarn. BLEH! I didn’t even buy the last two issues of Vogue Knitting because there were only one design in each that were worth anything.
March 30th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
I disagree….I think if you saw me in the assymetrical top, you WOULD laugh at me.
I’ll get started on that project right away. Maybe I’ll knit it from Cotton-Ease. 
Check out the March issue of Simply Knitting (that British magazine). It has a cute set of farm animals that you might want to knit for your grandbaby. Hmmm…maybe we should meet for a few minutes tomorrow so you can look at it. I’m not letting myself open it up until I go on my vacation, but you can open it.
March 31st, 2007 at 4:02 am
It looks like “Cripes, I f****d it up! Let’s call it a design feature!!” And I just will not comment on the baby outfit. It’s left me speechless.
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Hell, if I saw someone’s kid in that thing, I’d report them to the welfare department.
I think I gotta knit that green jacket too! Way too pretty to be ignored