Comments on: The Ethical Yarn Slut

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:35:27 +0000

I think that if you are smart enough to figure it out that easily you deserve to knit it
Go for it!!
My mom used to take my sister and I into stores and have us pick out dresses we liked and then she’d go home and make them, at the time I hated it but now I’m just in awe about how awesome she was to be able to do that.
You have a talent, definately, or as you said “knitting savant ”
:0)

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:51:01 +0000

Ooh, project slut. I knew there was a name for that irresistible urge to start a new project even though the eighty-seven other projects I’ve started aren’t done yet!

By: =Tamar

=Tamar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:49:44 +0000

Knit it. It’s traditional to see a pattern and figure out how to do it. It works both ways: I’ve found a few popular, named, “new” designs in older books of public domain traditional folk patterns.

By: MadCarlotta

MadCarlotta — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:06:38 +0000

Hrm, this sound very familiar.

I loved the Montego Bay scarf, but somehow it was completely off my radar when it first came out. When I finally “discovered” it, I couldn’t find a copy of the IK issue it was in locally, and I had some……er….problems, trying to order the issue online. I finally said screw it, it’s an easy lace pattern, and figured it out myself.

Then I felt guilty, so when my LYS offered to sell me their store copy, I bought it right up. :)

By: Wanett

Wanett — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:02:51 +0000

Is it bad that I thought the boyfriend analogy was perfectly good? You are hysterical! This is my first time to your blog but it wont be the last.

By: Stacie

Stacie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:00:20 +0000

I love how knitting dilemmas can be extended to other life situations. Me, I think you should stay at the party, forget the slap, be very very bad, and then go home and knit your fake Noemi. ;^)

By: becca

becca — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:18 +0000

As for fake!Noemi, well, fake!Noemi is like that really hot guy who’s hitting on you at your friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s party, and you know that he’s sleazy, and you heard that he has a girlfriend, and it would be very, very wrong to hook up with him and you should probably give him a good hard slap and walk away. But he’s oh-so-attractive, and you really, really want to be bad…
So let me tell you about these last two weeks in Israel…
No, but seriously, I want you to write a big book of knitting -to-life analogies. And, screw it, don’t feel bad about fake Naomi. You sat down and figured out the pattern by yourself. That’s not wrong. It’s wrong if you try to sell or share it, I think, but you just did the work that the patternwriter did and aren’t trying to make a profit on it or anything. So go, knit on!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:42:59 +0000

Your analogies make my day.

KNIT IT! There is no such thing as being unethical in the world of fiber arts. (Except selling someone else’s pattern as your own… which you’re not.)

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:32:54 +0000

You must put Knitting Prodigy in your resume.

By: Oksana

Oksana — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:09:36 +0000

I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong figuring out the pattern on your own instead of buying it. It’s not like you’re going to sell it. Figuring it out yourself is one of the joys of being a knitter!
It’s even more acceptable when the item is from some hotsy-totsy, overpriced designer. Then it’s actually a requirement.