tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post115946366995785773..comments2023-10-19T03:40:40.815-04:00Comments on Go Knit In Your Hat: Various and sundryCarolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07651035210994960810noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1160058086059191892006-10-05T10:21:00.000-04:002006-10-05T10:21:00.000-04:00Anonymous clearly has issues. But hey, if it makes...Anonymous clearly has issues. But hey, if it makes her feel better to call anyone with an over-38-inch bust fat, then fire away. Because we are all sharp enough to recognize crazy when we see it. <BR/><BR/>I believe in letting people make fools of themselves. Give 'em enough rope, yeah? Did I offend anyone by calling her crazy? (Hope I didn't offend anyone but Anonymous Herself.)<BR/><BR/>Carol, you can offend me any day of the week. Your yarn is beautiful, your reviews are spot on and thoughtful, and though we don't always agree about everything, I respect and appreciate your opinions, WHICH IS WHY I AM A READER.<BR/><BR/>Rock on, sister.Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01261534633129812423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159901269588565272006-10-03T14:47:00.000-04:002006-10-03T14:47:00.000-04:00I'm joining the herd to say that I really like you...I'm joining the herd to say that I really like your reviews. They give important information for me. Now that I know about the sizing issues in the Romantic Style book, I might leaf through it but I probably won't buy it because I'm a 44 bust, and none of the sweaters will fit. Perhaps the designers only go up to a certain bust size because they feel that a larger size won't look good in the design or won't fit their vision? Everyone's a different size people, get over it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159817660110980342006-10-02T15:34:00.000-04:002006-10-02T15:34:00.000-04:00I like your reviews, please keep 'em going.I like your reviews, please keep 'em going.Big Alicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13669587398699403481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159672484504829262006-09-30T23:14:00.000-04:002006-09-30T23:14:00.000-04:00Fat, skinny, or in between, I think people need to...Fat, skinny, or in between, I think people need to get over themselves and their insecurities. This is your blog, a place that you choose to say whatever the hell you want to say without being put on trial for every little thing you say. If people don't like what you have to say, then "Anonymous" should just stop reading your blog. <BR/><BR/>As for sizing, if most knitters had the time, skill and patience to totally rework a pattern they really loved, they would. I have a 36 bust but when I see a pattern that stops at 34 inches and then jumps to 40 inches and doesn't have a 36 inch option, I pull out my calculator and start reworking the pattern. It is my opinion that most knitters are lazy when it comes to math and like the convenience of following a pattern that does the work for them.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14619407235955247871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159662891921135632006-09-30T20:34:00.000-04:002006-09-30T20:34:00.000-04:00As a woman of size, I'm used to being left out of ...As a woman of size, I'm used to being left out of the majority of knitting patterns. However when I began looking at patterns, like Rowan and others, for my 13 year old daughter who is a jr size 3 or 5 depending on the mfg, and saw that her modest bust and hips often puts her in the size LARGE category - I nearly died of laughter. <BR/><BR/>I mean no offense to small sized women who can wear these patterns. I happen to believe there is room enough in the world for all of us. However I find it difficult to consider the sizing "normal" when my tiny teenager comes in at the top end of their size scale.<BR/><BR/>blissfulknitter at gmail dot comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159662199350070802006-09-30T20:23:00.000-04:002006-09-30T20:23:00.000-04:00I appreciate your reviews which I think are truely...I appreciate your reviews which I think are truely helpful. Size <BR/>matters! If a knitter does not feel confident in his or her ability to make the necessary alterations, or perhaps envision how well the finished garment would look or feel on the wearer, it is helpful to know up front that the book they may contemplate buying (mail order or making a special trip to the bookstore or LYS) is not for them.<BR/><BR/>One of my knitting students was a former pro football player with a well developed sense of style. He couldn't find sweaters he liked which fit so he decided to learn to knit and knit well enough to alter patterns or design his own. I think he was a midwesterner--heh, heh, heh.<BR/><BR/>Keep it up! I hardly ever use a pattern but I occasionally by books which provide an indepth study of a technique or just great inspiration.<BR/><BR/>Jude--who can't seem to make Blogger let her register so must be "anonymous" and signs using her blog handle, obscureknitty, 'cause she hates writing anonymous comments, blah, blah, blahAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159635380217567312006-09-30T12:56:00.000-04:002006-09-30T12:56:00.000-04:00I like your reviews -- they contain useful objecti...I like your reviews -- they contain useful objective information (like sizes!) as well as your subjective take on the book. In short, a REVIEW, unlike most of the rewritten dustjacket blurbs you see in the magazines (including the online mags).Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12390184548389376679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159632690142587872006-09-30T12:11:00.000-04:002006-09-30T12:11:00.000-04:00Why, Deanna, that one is probably next on my list!...Why, Deanna, that one is probably next on my list!<BR/><BR/>Sherry, it was actually chocolate. My kids would never eat carrot cake, and since Charcoal can't have any.... but he got lots of Cheerios that night.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651035210994960810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159629980598887652006-09-30T11:26:00.000-04:002006-09-30T11:26:00.000-04:00You have never offended me, and I don't think I'm ...You have never offended me, and I don't think I'm sensitive enough that you ever would. I like frank discussions!<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the world is filled with small-minded people with lots of personal baggage and negative assumptions about others that they will gladly, and anonymously, comment on. <BR/><BR/>Don't let it stop you!jillianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05864066847052675219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159622513424747482006-09-30T09:21:00.000-04:002006-09-30T09:21:00.000-04:00In our OVERLY politically correct society, you can...In our OVERLY politically correct society, you cannot refer to anyone with out offending somone. See there, I just offended the politically correct.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the wonderful book review and keep up the good work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159591989784462112006-09-30T00:53:00.000-04:002006-09-30T00:53:00.000-04:00So, was it a carrot cake? :)So, was it a carrot cake? :)Sherry Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103490521732524156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159589359775445892006-09-30T00:09:00.000-04:002006-09-30T00:09:00.000-04:00Oh please let's not let them bring political corre...Oh please let's not let them bring political correctness to the blogging community. Just like a TV or Radio, one can click the mouse & go elsewhere. If I were offended by something you said, & I felt the need to purposely insult you for it, then who really has a problem requiring nice talky doctors & meds? Anonymously yours, Carol in FLCarolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18187303372682555817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159588074167174352006-09-29T23:47:00.000-04:002006-09-29T23:47:00.000-04:00I also appreciate your reviews just as they are. ...I also appreciate your reviews just as they are. Do you have any plans to review Louisa Harding's "Modern Classics"? It is in the latest Knitpicks e-mail and looks promising. ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159576217397101302006-09-29T20:30:00.000-04:002006-09-29T20:30:00.000-04:00What they said! (sheesh, I'm such a follower. Sorr...What they said! (sheesh, I'm such a follower. Sorry I can't think of anything clever to add- you guys said it all!)mindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15981340071876565395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159575434605927092006-09-29T20:17:00.000-04:002006-09-29T20:17:00.000-04:00I like your reviews as they are. The only other t...I like your reviews as they are. The only other thing I want to know is the price, and I can find that with google.<BR/>On sizing...what about people who knit for others? Maybe you wear a size 42, and your daughter wears size 32, and you'd like to use the book more than once?<BR/>Before I got hit with the middle age spread I am now battling, I would be told by the docs that I was the right weight to be healthy. In other words, not fat, not thin. I had a 39" bust, which grew to 41" after the kids. That's how I learned to fix patterns. I am sure not going to plunk down $30 for a book I can't use. That's no insult to me, or to the people those sweaters fit. It's a fact. Keep on with "the facts, ma'am, nuthin' but the facts"<BR/>Barb B.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159573585294949872006-09-29T19:46:00.000-04:002006-09-29T19:46:00.000-04:00As someone who was born in the midwest and current...As someone who was born in the midwest and currently lives in the midwest, I'd be thrilled if I thought for one second that I was an example the style to which you referred.<BR/><BR/>Instead of your example, though, of saying Vogue has a Manhattan style, what if you said Queens? Maybe some of the New Yorkers would speak up? Maybe not.<BR/><BR/>Re: size. I think it is an absolutely unbiased and important point of disclosure about the book. Anyone who wants to make a finished size larger than 38 inches, needs to know that these patterns are not written that large. Period. This isn't the same as writing essays on what you consider to be the proper range of sizes. It's just pointing out what the book offers. Hard to be offended by that.<BR/><BR/>What I appreciate most about your reviews is how objective they are. That's so much more helpful than reading ten versions of "I love it!" or "It sucks!"Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04278529449974055377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159560673408037992006-09-29T16:11:00.000-04:002006-09-29T16:11:00.000-04:00Your reviews are excellent. As far as your adject...Your reviews are excellent. As far as your adjectives (i.e. Midwestern, Miss America-ish), I know what you mean, and admit to sometimes using such terminology myself (hard to believe, but true).<BR/><BR/>Re: Large vs. small women. I used to be at the larger end of the scale. It was difficult to find clothes that I liked, and that fit well. A couple of years ago, I had a series of nine different surgeries (two of them very major) in an 18-month period, and due to that and intensive physical therapy, I am now at the smaller end of the scale. *I* feel like the same person - it's other people (yes, I'm sorry, but they are mostly women) who make snarky comments ... and it's still hard to find clothes.<BR/><BR/>Size is important in clothing. But being one size or body type doesn't automatically make you a better person!Bridgethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01641404632001445083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159559494429083312006-09-29T15:51:00.000-04:002006-09-29T15:51:00.000-04:00I knew exactly what you meant by Midwestern -- it'...I knew exactly what you meant by Midwestern -- it's a very evocative way of describing a certain style.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159556517395427922006-09-29T15:01:00.000-04:002006-09-29T15:01:00.000-04:00Ok, I had an entire defense of Carol entry to add ...Ok, I had an entire defense of Carol entry to add to the list--then I saw the line "...trashing the Shrub". I love you (although, I would prefer to see it shrub, I don't think he is a proper noun (or human)......<BR/><BR/><BR/>Haaaaaa. what a great way to start the weekend. I will spend it with my evil MIL (who loves him) so I will indeed be using it (and will give you credit) haaaaaaaaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159556054829298982006-09-29T14:54:00.000-04:002006-09-29T14:54:00.000-04:00Kmkat, these days I find it easy to get from ANYWH...Kmkat, these days I find it easy to get from ANYWHERE to trashing the Shrub. Much appreciated.Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651035210994960810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159554778376850822006-09-29T14:32:00.000-04:002006-09-29T14:32:00.000-04:00I'm another who appreciates the honesty of your re...I'm another who appreciates the honesty of your reviews. One thing about honesty, though; it can be always be counted on to offend somebody somewhere. Kudos to you for not letting it stop you. If there were more people ready to tell it like it is, say, in the White House, we might not be in such a sh!thole in the world. <BR/><BR/>Oops, how did I get from knitting books reviews to trashing GWB? Easily... ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159552037954256642006-09-29T13:47:00.000-04:002006-09-29T13:47:00.000-04:00What I noted is that you called the models "Midwes...What I noted is that you called the models "Midwestern" but then a few sentences later called them "Miss-America-ish." So someone who thought the term "Midwestern" was pejorative obviously is bringing a whole bunch of personal baggage to the party.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16885327989629063071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159547995527678762006-09-29T12:39:00.000-04:002006-09-29T12:39:00.000-04:00I LOVE your reviews because they are honest. You d...I LOVE your reviews because they are honest. You don't have anything to gain, unlike the publishers and other "reviewers". I have a friend who wrote a book. It was garbage, and I said so. He self-published and had a bunch of his other friends write rave reviews on Amazon about it. But, as I've gotten to know you, I can COUNT on your honesty. <BR/>And I really got a kick out of "midwestern". I'll leave it at that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159547031558465842006-09-29T12:23:00.000-04:002006-09-29T12:23:00.000-04:00Dude, whassup wit YOU??!! Didn't you KNOW that b...Dude, whassup wit YOU??!! Didn't you KNOW that by having a blog you automatically become a forum for this type of treatment? ROTFLMAO. <BR/>Aye aye aye. <BR/>Carol: Thank you for your book reviews. I love them. The information and perspective is far more useful to me (and entertaining!) than the type of "let's not piss anyone off" kind of patsy review I'm going to find in most knitting magazines. Whether I agree with you or not (and I've never tallied) I am thankful for your sharing of thought.MsAmpuTeeHeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733762919331458954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18710479.post-1159546034480964852006-09-29T12:07:00.000-04:002006-09-29T12:07:00.000-04:00See, now, I told Anonymous that Brits weren't all ...See, now, I told Anonymous that Brits weren't all Twiggy, and your Googling proves it.<BR/><BR/>Must be the pub on every corner with the chips and peas, right? ;-) (ducks and runs...)<BR/><BR/>I don't understand why people who are not curvy have to pull out the fast-food big guns when curvy, tall, or big-boned people ask for larger sizes or a larger range of sizes. Frankly, that's one of the biggest draws of knitting for me, is to be able to create something that will fit me, rather than be limited to what's on the rack. And I'm not a tall woman (understatement of the century--I'm nearly a midget). I've had to deal with not being in the average range my whole life. But for a pattern book to stop short of the size that most women in its market take, well...that's just weird. I'm glad you take on the sizing issue as part of your reviews, Carol, because it's extremely important to know before you buy a book, whether you be little, big, or in between.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com