I spent too much time on the internet
I was browsing patterns on Ravelry and a couple of things came up.
1. Why do people post a pattern but not take a good picture of the item? Some of them have more cat in the picture than the knitted item. Hey, I love kitties just as much as the next person, I have two of them myself. However, I want to see what I’m going to end up with. There’s one picture that the item is folded/rolled/wadded up, I shit you not. WTF people. Free or for purchase, show me what I’m going to spend my time on.
2. What is it with lines across the boobs in tops? I’m talking about the ones that have a divider type line between the boob and belly sections. Why can’t the line be under the boobs? Why does it have to go across the boobs? Are we trying to make them look saggy? Look smaller? Is it a measuring tape? Is it bondage? Help the boobs, move the line! Someone explain to me because I really want to know. Perhaps if I know the “why”, I’ll see it in a new light and not hate the line.
3. Rant - If I see a picture of an item I want to knit, then I look at the pattern and see that it’s different than the picture, I want to reach out and touch someone. I’m just pulling things out of the blue and it in no way is part of the actual pattern so searching would be fruitless, but let’s say there was a section of flowers, then a section of bees, then a section of trees, and when you get to the pattern there is no chart for bees but skulls in it’s place. It was a fair isle pattern so I don’t know why I’m bitching since I don’t mess with fair isle, but it still irritated me. What if I decide to do fair isle tomorrow? I can’t make that item because the designer chose to not give all the same charts he/she used. I don’t want to have to go searching for the chart, I don’t want to have to think about it, I just want the charts used for the item in the pattern.
April 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Your post cracked me up! I find the same problem when looking for furniture on Craigslist - you want $100 for the item but you can’t take a non-blurry picture?!
April 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Totally agree! My personal favorites are sock patterns that you can’t see the stitch pattern because the photos are either blurry or shot from 2 blocks away. Um.. hello? I don’t care HOW fabulous you say they are.. I’m not going to blindly follow directions and take your word for it!
Also.. bad fit in photos (designers photos) really irritates me… especially misplaced umpire waists! If you don’t know SOMEONE who properly fits into ONE of the (at least 3 sizes.. s, m, l, with the hopes of at least an xs & xl in the bunch) sizes that you wrote the pattern for… then maybe you should go back to the drawing board?
April 17th, 2008 at 10:22 am
*empire waist . “Umpire waist”.. I bet that’s unflattering. lol Stupid spell check.
April 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Yeah! What you said! Baaaaaaaa.
April 17th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Even I have noticed the bad-fitting boob lines in some of those tops. (I say “Even I” because I don’t notice lots of things like that, since I don’t do much sweater knitting.)
And there’s one lace designer who doesdo some nice designs, but in most of her own photos, you can’t tell WHAT the lace pattern looks like. That drives me abso-freaking-lutly nuts.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:21 am
I have wondered about #2 myself. The line going across instead of under always looks like a mistake to me, like the garment doesn’t fit right. Did you end up finding something you want to knit?
April 26th, 2008 at 7:29 am
My knitting buds and I were discussing that very thing as we perused Ravelry for something to “group knit”. Get a clue photographers! Read a book or something about fashion photography! I know mine aren’t always the best, but I don’t post those!!!!! And the empire waist thing is the revival of a bad fashion era anyway. Sure wish it would go away again.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:19 am
Because people are morons and can’t take pictures.