I spent too much time on the internet
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I 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.
