crafting humour: poking fun at the pattern makers
Sunday, June 11th, 2006three blogs (and probably more) offer a steady flow of rib tickling reviews of patterns from the present and the past. i should add that the opinions on these websites are not mine but you are just putting the info out there and opening it up for discussion!
- What not to crochet
- You knit WHAT??
- Thread Bared
of course, in matters of taste it is easy to offend; humour is a risk. and there are inevitably some hurt egos.
there seems to be alot of cross-over success in these blogs, with readers who aren’t just crafters. you don’t need to be a craft-interested person to find the humour in many of these images. threadbared simply enjoys making ribbing captions under the sometimes very strange photography and illustrations on the patterns.
many giggle-filled images are found in past patterns (threadbared lists by decade), but there are some completely cringe-worthy things coming from some of the biggest names in crafting even today, all in the name of capturing the wallets of your ‘hip’ crafty selves. vogue, rowan… how do they get it so wrong… and yet for the purposes of humor… so right? it seems that the staff at pattern design places are maybe several seasons and possibly several lightyears removed from what is actually going on… like some rarified culture… it breeds these lovely odd creations that are really just loads of fun to look at, now and long into the future, i hope.in betsy’s post right here on whip-up, the ‘adorn’
magazine editor said “I think there’s a bit of a lag between traditional craft companies and modern crafters.” in a recent post at ‘you knit what?’ said: “the art directors of the yarn companies show their cluelessness.” I suppose eventually, with all this prodding the companies are going to get smart… maybe?
quote from you knit what?
