Interweave Pattern Store: Frustration and delight

[msmcknittington]

Browsing the Interweave Press pattern store is a mixture of "ooh, pretty!" and "crivens! ma heid!". (Yep, I checked Wee Free Men out of the library today. When will my love for ridiculously thick Scottish accents end? Never, I hope!) Like the Henley Perfected? Way, way incredibly cute. Lace and Tuck Ensemble? I've been intending to make that since 2004. (Um, but I haven't. Because . . . I haven't.) Molly Ringwald? Cute!

But the bandeaus? Yes, that's plural. Why would you do that? Even if you have the most beautiful breasts on earth, it just looks like you got halfway done with a sweater and decided not to finish. Also, magenta/green plaid pants with a red/orange/green/yellow top? The stylist must be blind. Orbit Lace? It looks like someone took some Barbara Walker lace medallions and slapped them on a tube. I'm tired of circle jacket doilies, too.

And, let I forget it, the ugliest thing I've ever seen published in Interweave Knits.

Does anyone else think this model looks like she should be smoking a cigarette while working on her third Long Island Iced Tea, and then going on a rant about how her husband is a lousy lover?

In other news, I just ate a moldy bing cherry. No wonder they were 60-percent off. At least I get to enjoy having a purple tongue and lips for a while. I feel kind of like a polar bear.

_{*I can't believe Annie Modesitt failed me! Twice!}

Comments

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

I adore the Wee Free Men.

WAILY WAILY WAILY is about how I feel about SCA politics right now.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I'm almost embarrassed to admit that what finally spurred me to read it is Discworld fanfiction on Yuletide.

I wish my little boy cousins weren't such sports fanatics, because otherwise I'd know exactly what to get them for Christmas this year. Tiffany Aching books!

Ah, well. At least the princess dress-up clothes I've got planned for my princess-crazy cousin will be a big success.

I feel WAILY WAILY WAILY about pretty much everything. Too bad we're not Mac Nac Feegle, huh?

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

If I could WAILY WAILY WAILY, hit it with a stick, and then go get drunk, it would be a happy happy day.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been trying to figure out a reason why being human would prevent either of us from doing that, and I'm coming up empty.

[cigarettes214.livejournal.com]

Molly Ringwald is pretty much necessary.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. It's way up on my to-knit list. As soon as I get a line on an acceptable substitute for Classic Elite Classic Silk that won't break the bank.

[ferret-herder.livejournal.com]

The henley is cute but I am so not a fan of lace in the bust area on a sweater that otherwise appears to be made not to require anything underneath.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I can see how you could feel that way. I wear a camisole or t-shirt under all my sweaters, though, so I don't have a problem with that.

[ferret-herder.livejournal.com]

I would too, but with an item like that I'd worry about bunching or otherwise not looking like it fit well. It seems like it's a very slim-fitting sweater.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Ah, most of my camisoles are of the stretch-knit, skintight variety. I don't think I really own anything that isn't pajamas that could be considered baggy.

[dragonling.livejournal.com]

I like the Henley, and considered making it. I may do so yet! (I have that copy of Interweave).

I really need to do some knitting.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I want to knit it, too! It's so pretty.

Urgh. I need to stop messing up whenever I pick up my knitting. I have plenty of opportunities to knit, and I should before it gets too hot to contemplate.

[dragonling.livejournal.com]

I have no real excuse. I'm just lazy and doing other stuff.

Feeding my addiction for MahJong and Picross on DS mainly..

[crazycatlady76.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that last model looks like she should be screaming at a hotel employee for losing her dog's Busy Bee. And hyperventilating about how the dog is freaking out.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

Is that personal experience talking there?

There's something about her face that reminds me of a bitchy Gwyneth Paltrow.