April 20, 2005
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I ended up knitting in the doctor's office. I'm going back today with #1 son, so I will be able to knit further. This is another benefit to long sections of stockinette.
Yesterday I found myself in several conversations about disapproval. La Bella said that she had trouble complying with all those requests for batches of cookies, because she disapproves of people eating all that sugar. (If you don't have lots of people asking you for batches of cookies, then you should go study right now, because you are that young). Partygirl and I, having listened to someone speaking disapprovingly about the results of poor choices in reading and viewing, were discussing our own reading and viewing choices with some qualms (Partygirl reads bodice-rippers. If you understood that sentence, you may enjoy this -- scroll down the page to find Lord of the Hissy Fit). This led us to the question of violent video games -- of which I disapprove, but my husband and sons do not. And #1 daughter, when I appealed to her for help in finding some legal and moral source of music downloads for the boys' MP3 players, allowed as how she doesn't disapprove of filesharing programs, in spite of her strong belief in copyright law. Her argument was lengthy and complex, and fairly compelling, too.
There's really an amazing range of things around that stimulate disapproval. Just in the knitting blogs, you can find fairly impassioned expressions of disapproval of wool, acrylic, garter stitch scarves, patterns without schematics, schematics, DPNs, copyright violation, and expensive yarns.
So what do you disapprove of? (EDIT: Because of some real-world responses to the question I am returning to say that I mean abstract disapproval that leads you to choose not to do something. I am not asking you to be mean about others. Would I do a thing like that?)
#1 daughter also weighed in with suggestions for the background color of the Windblown Squares quilt, speaking strongly in favor of either sage green or burgundy. White, she felt, would end up looking insipid. Which would you favor?
And on the subject of color, Scriveling is making the T-shirt in variegated cool colors. I think she is the first to do a variegated one. Or at least the first to announce it. Dweezy has found an extremely clever way to graph his own drawings for knitting. All knitters who also can draw should check it out, and the rest of us should also check it out if only to marvel at its extreme cleverness. If you are still thinking about a graphic for the shirt, you might also check out your library in search of The Tap-Dancing Lizard, an excellent compilation of charted intarsia patterns for knitting.
Comments (3)
I disapprove of coercion. It looks like bullying to me. That doesn't mean I don't sometimes fall into knee-jerk parenting mode.
The burgundy looks lovely, but I like the idea of sage green better. It would be more serene, I think. But that might not be what you are going for.
"Bodice rippers." LOL. I knew what you meant, but I don't read them. I had to return "Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife" to the library halfway through reading. There was too much of that.
I like the burgundy.
Disapprove of cheating when it affects others (person can cheat as much as he/she likes when playing solitary games - have no problem with that). Have to admit that I don't disapprove of violent computer games. Disapprove of political editing of all forms of media - it's just a form of legalised brainwashing,.
"Bodice Rippers"....have to say I'm not a fan.
I do have people begging me to make cookies all the time, and brownies, and cakes (my 14 year old especially likes my coffeecake)...so I guess I don't have to go study.
The quilt guild I belonged to once had a huge battle between many of the members regarding copyright laws. One shop owner would chastise anyone if they copied anything from a book, regardless of whether or not it was theirs, she did not believe in "fair use". I firmly believe in fair use and copy my patterns for personal use. I copy my patterns and put them in a sleeve to keep in my knitting bag, my original goes where nothing can get spilled on it. I copy patterns out of books and magazines so that I don't have to carry them around with me. I do not copy patterns and send them to all of my friends, that would not be fair to the person who designed the pattern. I only download music I have paid for (I don't know how to do it any other way and have no interest in learning)...actually I buy a cd and put the music on the ipod as a copy. I disapprove of dishonesty and cheating.
And no arguing with my mother isn't fun, irritating her is but one must know (as her child) how far you can go.....and the three of us "kids" toe that line. And, now that you mention it, I believee that bed jackets are just that, loose around the waist, I vaguely remeber a pattern that I loved years ago....completely different than a shrug! (now I'll quit hogging your comment space and say goodnight!)
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