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.

[cigarettes214.livejournal.com]

Molly Ringwald is pretty much necessary.

[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.

[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.

[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.