Comments on: oh, “knitting”

By: rebecca

rebecca — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:19:47 +0000

scary that they couldn’t fake knitting properly…

By: heather

heather — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:03:22 +0000

I used to subscribe to Cooking Light years ago and quit doing so for reasons quite like this. They do have some good recipes, some gleaned are still in rotation at my house, but the over all sense of the magazine is quite clueless. They seem to be chasing the polls or something. Not ever quite realistic enough to be convincing and a bit pandering as well. I don’t know how to say it any better, the whole mag just doesn’t quite sit right with me.

By: turtlegirl76

turtlegirl76 — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 20:48:02 +0000

*small voice* It looks like she’s joining in a new color for some intarsia. I don’t think it’s wrong.

By: Meg

Meg — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:12:21 +0000

When I first looked at this picture, I honestly thought it was one of those kooky vintage photos from some mid-20th century women’s magazine, even the wording “fun, purposeful pursuit that motivates you” sounds like something straight out of the era…

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:17:12 +0000

Phooey indeed! I’m all for people starting to knit for the first time, but couldn’t someone have given her a lesson in how to HOLD the project first?
Hmmm…Here’s a theory! Maybe she dropped it right before the picture was taken and now she’s trying to untangle it…that heartless photographer didn’t wait long enough for her to prove that she really does know what she’s doing. Poor thing…maybe next photo shoot.
Ha ha!!

By: modjac

modjac — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:35:34 +0000

Two things:
First of all, I was just thinking about this issue today, as I was lying on the couch wishing my cold would go away. I once dated a guy who, when watching Better Off Dead, would complain that they ski with poor form at the end of the movie. I had a few related memories that are equally uninteresting to share. BUT… it has always made me wonder why people who produce such things don’t think to ask someone who knows how things are done to simply get it right. What, you’re making a movie with John Cusack and you can’t even find stuntmen who know how to ski?
Second of all, maybe this chick, goofy as she looks in the cooking magazine, is going to inspire a bunch of new knitters, people who think they need the “sense of fulfillment” that knitting brings them. I know that if I had some yarn at home, I wouldn’t have paid as much attention to crap tv while home sick today. Come on, let’s look at the bright side. Also, she makes us all feel superior because we know better than she does how to knit. Ha.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:30:18 +0000

I think I shall do a blog post in which I encourage everyone to take up cooking this year as a way to, I don’t know, self improve somehow. But I will illustrate with a photograph of myself cheerful pouring olive oil onto ice cream and sticking my hand into the flame of the gas stove. I mean, that’ll be close enough to “cooking,” right?

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:43:03 +0000

Hee. I’ve got to play the devil’s advocate here– I knit backwards, so the picture isn’t all that improbable. But yeah, she looks like she’s not really doing so much with the yarn except posing.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:08:31 +0000

heehee. My particular pet peeve are photos of people “playing” the violin (or another stringed instrument) and playing it incorrectly.

Soon after I started working at publisher X (my old employer) I found a photo in a textbook of a kid “playing” the violin. His hand positions were all wrong and the scroll of the violin was poiniting way up to the ceiling. AND he was holding the violin in the wrong hand! I nearly went crazy.

Later, I asked for a photo of a kid playing the violin insisted that whoever the photo department picked model had to actually know how to play the violin. The photo I got was much better.

Then I left the company for a few years and the designers on the book flipped the photo because it “looked better that way” and ruined the whole thing. After I rejoined the company, the managing editor (who knew that I played the cello) called me into his office to ask if anyone played the violin “left handed.” Apparently the company got flack for the photo that they flipped and the managing editor was trying to “prove” that there was nothing wrong with it.

By: heather

heather — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:12:52 +0000

where was the knitting consultant for this photo shoot!??

ha – good eye!