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

[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.