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tashabear:
"That's perfectly clear. It's exactly how a knitting pattern should be written. I realize that people have learning curves when it comes to reading knitting patterns, but it's unfair to the designer to diss their pattern when the issue is that the reader doesn't know how to read it yet."
On the one hand, I understand the impulse to provide sympathy for the person posting asking for help with the directions, and I understand how that can lead to "gee, that was hard to understand, you're right."
On the other hand, a lot of people who design knitting patterns read the community, and it's even possible that the person who designed the pattern is reading it-- it's not fair to them to characterize their writing as "not clearly written" for using standard knitting terms like "break the yarn, leaving a long tail."
(For those who don't knit or do any yarn crafts, "break yarn" means to cut, snip, or pull apart the strand of yarn that connects whatever you just made to the unused yarn still in the ball. "Break" is used instead of "cut" because there are several different methods depending on preference. The "tail" of the yarn is the bit you haven't used yet, in this case-- to say "leave a long tail" means "don't cut it right up next to your project, cut it closer to the ball of yarn, because we're going to have you do something with the tail.")
knitting community, in this thread, this comment by tashabear:"That's perfectly clear. It's exactly how a knitting pattern should be written. I realize that people have learning curves when it comes to reading knitting patterns, but it's unfair to the designer to diss their pattern when the issue is that the reader doesn't know how to read it yet."
On the one hand, I understand the impulse to provide sympathy for the person posting asking for help with the directions, and I understand how that can lead to "gee, that was hard to understand, you're right."
On the other hand, a lot of people who design knitting patterns read the community, and it's even possible that the person who designed the pattern is reading it-- it's not fair to them to characterize their writing as "not clearly written" for using standard knitting terms like "break the yarn, leaving a long tail."
(For those who don't knit or do any yarn crafts, "break yarn" means to cut, snip, or pull apart the strand of yarn that connects whatever you just made to the unused yarn still in the ball. "Break" is used instead of "cut" because there are several different methods depending on preference. The "tail" of the yarn is the bit you haven't used yet, in this case-- to say "leave a long tail" means "don't cut it right up next to your project, cut it closer to the ball of yarn, because we're going to have you do something with the tail.")
