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eryn_ posted about knitting patterns, so I thought I'd mention my wish list for knitting pictures.
Dear knitting pattern models,
You would sell a lot more knitting patterns to me if you could just follow a few tiny steps.
1. I don't give a crap about "mood lighting" or "posing." I don't want to see you walking in the distance or slouched in a chair with your fancy knitted scarf half-obscured below a table. Stand up, face me, and wear the item as if you're trying to sell it to me, for pity's sake.
2. Get your hair away from the neckline. I'm not knitting your hair. I want to see what the neck of the garment looks like.
3. I'd like to see either the same garment on two people, or a picture of the model NOT wearing the garment, so I can tell if that "heavy around the middle" look is the model, or the sweater. (I think she made the wrong size, honestly, because the schematic shows a waist.) If it's the model, then I can decide if the sweater would look good on me or not. If it's the sweater, then hell no. It would actually help more to have two models try on the same sweater, especially if the models had different skin tones or cleavage or were otherwise different in appearance. (Seriously, there are almost no non-VERY-pasty-white-girl knitting models-- what's up with that? How do people with darker skin figure out whether that clingy coffee-colored lace will look good or just lingerie-ish?)
4. I don't need to see the directions before I buy a pattern or book, but I do want to know how it's constructed in general. In the round? Flat and seamed? Steeked? DPNs or circs? Cables? Are there new techniques involved? How much yarn will I need*?
*It would be really nift-o-matic if, instead of these stupid names for different weights of yarn, we performed simple division and listed yarn by meters/gram. For example, Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes is 100 meters and 50 grams, so it would have a weight of 2. Andean Silk is slightly heavier and has a weight of 1.75-- even though they're both the same "weight" you'd get less from 50g.
But that would make sense, wouldn't it?
eryn_ posted about knitting patterns, so I thought I'd mention my wish list for knitting pictures.Dear knitting pattern models,
You would sell a lot more knitting patterns to me if you could just follow a few tiny steps.
1. I don't give a crap about "mood lighting" or "posing." I don't want to see you walking in the distance or slouched in a chair with your fancy knitted scarf half-obscured below a table. Stand up, face me, and wear the item as if you're trying to sell it to me, for pity's sake.
2. Get your hair away from the neckline. I'm not knitting your hair. I want to see what the neck of the garment looks like.
3. I'd like to see either the same garment on two people, or a picture of the model NOT wearing the garment, so I can tell if that "heavy around the middle" look is the model, or the sweater. (I think she made the wrong size, honestly, because the schematic shows a waist.) If it's the model, then I can decide if the sweater would look good on me or not. If it's the sweater, then hell no. It would actually help more to have two models try on the same sweater, especially if the models had different skin tones or cleavage or were otherwise different in appearance. (Seriously, there are almost no non-VERY-pasty-white-girl knitting models-- what's up with that? How do people with darker skin figure out whether that clingy coffee-colored lace will look good or just lingerie-ish?)
4. I don't need to see the directions before I buy a pattern or book, but I do want to know how it's constructed in general. In the round? Flat and seamed? Steeked? DPNs or circs? Cables? Are there new techniques involved? How much yarn will I need*?
*It would be really nift-o-matic if, instead of these stupid names for different weights of yarn, we performed simple division and listed yarn by meters/gram. For example, Knitpicks' Wool of the Andes is 100 meters and 50 grams, so it would have a weight of 2. Andean Silk is slightly heavier and has a weight of 1.75-- even though they're both the same "weight" you'd get less from 50g.
But that would make sense, wouldn't it?
