Rescuers row row, do your best to change the subject
So, one skein of Lion Brand Wool-Ease was enough to yield: one shell stitch brimmed hat, one ridiculous tam with giant pompom, one cap of the ripoffed gnomish variety with enough left over to make this ridiculousness:
I don't know what I was thinking. No, I do know. I started off making a ball but my body rejected making something that looked like a hackey sack so I ended up making it more of a doll beret and then I kept going. Only a steel will prevented me from putting a pompom on it. Steel will and an inability to make nice pompoms.
The ripoffed gnomish hat was brought about by a discussion on TiB that I've decided not to touch with a 10-foot pole. I find it difficult to read because of the ignorant/uninformed opinions of many who feel the need to chime in. It's painful.
The original (and quite elaborate) version of this is available for a pretty penny from Neuart on Etsy. It was her original concept and design and bravo to her. The Come-Latelies have made fugtastic versions of it and are severely undercutting her *cough* with pricing that does not come close to actually covering time and materials. Why not just give them away? Even Chinese prison labor factories would charge more.
Lean close, I tell you secret. Come on, come closer. Okay, I tell you. I know your source. All of you, I know your source, no matter how obscure you think it is. I have a pile of vintage and new patterns in a variety of languages (not to mention the online resources) and I know where all of your supposedly "original patterns" derive from. That? That's Dolly Dolly Number 15. This jacket? From the book "This is Blythe." Those dresses are vintage Skipper. That sweater is from a clone Barbie knitting pamphlet from 1968, here, I'll show you. I don't care how much time you claim you put into developing your pattern, it still looks like the strapless dress from Glamarama and if you really did draft it from scratch, you're an idiot for reinventing the wheel.
Something truly original will impress my giant pants off (to clarify: original and cute -- "it's my own pattern!"+ hideousness = me with torch). But when someone stomps their foot and rants about their "original" pattern being ripped off, which looks remarkably like an unmodified Momoko pattern from "Cheerio," well, then I laugh and laugh and maybe start choking. I may be an asshole but I always cite my sources.
Hey, I wonder if I can have that as my epitaph?
I don't know what I was thinking. No, I do know. I started off making a ball but my body rejected making something that looked like a hackey sack so I ended up making it more of a doll beret and then I kept going. Only a steel will prevented me from putting a pompom on it. Steel will and an inability to make nice pompoms.
The ripoffed gnomish hat was brought about by a discussion on TiB that I've decided not to touch with a 10-foot pole. I find it difficult to read because of the ignorant/uninformed opinions of many who feel the need to chime in. It's painful.
The original (and quite elaborate) version of this is available for a pretty penny from Neuart on Etsy. It was her original concept and design and bravo to her. The Come-Latelies have made fugtastic versions of it and are severely undercutting her *cough* with pricing that does not come close to actually covering time and materials. Why not just give them away? Even Chinese prison labor factories would charge more.
Lean close, I tell you secret. Come on, come closer. Okay, I tell you. I know your source. All of you, I know your source, no matter how obscure you think it is. I have a pile of vintage and new patterns in a variety of languages (not to mention the online resources) and I know where all of your supposedly "original patterns" derive from. That? That's Dolly Dolly Number 15. This jacket? From the book "This is Blythe." Those dresses are vintage Skipper. That sweater is from a clone Barbie knitting pamphlet from 1968, here, I'll show you. I don't care how much time you claim you put into developing your pattern, it still looks like the strapless dress from Glamarama and if you really did draft it from scratch, you're an idiot for reinventing the wheel.
Something truly original will impress my giant pants off (to clarify: original and cute -- "it's my own pattern!"+ hideousness = me with torch). But when someone stomps their foot and rants about their "original" pattern being ripped off, which looks remarkably like an unmodified Momoko pattern from "Cheerio," well, then I laugh and laugh and maybe start choking. I may be an asshole but I always cite my sources.
Hey, I wonder if I can have that as my epitaph?
Labels: Blythe, Crochet, Fist shaking, Knitting
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