what not to crochet...

[vigilant20]

Not to be a pain, but any image/work is automatically copyright the owner according the the copyright laws. You don't need to go out of your way to protect it. In fact you do need to go out of your way to say if you are allowing people to use it in any way.

[eurolyons]

Originally Posted by funkyreporter

I must agree... I found it hilarious - I was IMing with my daughter who is 250 miles away at university (also a crochet/knitter) and we were rolling . Of COURSE if one takes it serious they may end up offended; I/we viewed it in a satirical way and found both the crochet and knit sites very, um, entertaining.

Now obviously some (many) of these designs had a tremendous amount of work and talent invested in them - they just kinda missed it with either the yarn choice, the color combination choice, or truly hideous design... I mean a hat that looks like on octopus? really .

Certainly People magazine and E! channel and the like just love to show the 'worst dressed on the Red Carpet' and many people eat it up! So I see this as the 'fiber art' version of Red Carpet misses! I, too, have made some real doozies, and if I knew how to load pictures I'd be happy to share. I recently stumbled upon a UFO (circa mid '90s) and honestly thought what the @#$% was I thinking with that color combo/design?

And bottom line, is the wonderful freedom of choice that we all have! We can choose not to look at something offensive to our personal tastes... or we can bookmark both sites (as I did) to make sure not to lose them and to be able to get a laugh when our own poncho/shrug/afghan/scarf with pockets in day-glow purple just doesn't come out as gorgeous as we visioned in our head!

Just my opinion, of course...

Paulette, while I agree with you about this site being a fiber art "Red Carpet" and goodness knows I used to love to watch the Red Carpet shows in the past, that all stopped a year or so after Joan Rivers started doing them...why...because they are meanspirited...I also don't like the show "What Not to Wear" for the same reason. Sure, the advice is good, but I just don't like the vibe...I don't find it funny. I don't like to see people being unmercilessly ridiculed and humilated (although I did notice that on "What Not to Wear" the couple of times I saw the show last year, had softened their tone just a bit...) even if the results work in the end.

And why is it that when one questions any kind of humor like this, the response is, "Well I think it's not to be taken seriously..." I respectfully disagree...

[Cordelia]

I said I was done in this thread but feel I should defend myself and then I will truly be done, I hope....

Eurolyons I havent a clue why you think I was speaking to you directly I wasn't...

My point is that even here in this forum we have had threads where people have given their opinions on certain pubications. In some of these threads it has been said " that project is ugly, I won't be making it"...or "I didn't buy that magazine due to the God awful projects"...or better yet, "I dont know who is designing these things but I don;t like fun fur it's just plain ugly and over done"...

I do not like the meanspiritedness any more than you say you do but to act as one hasnt made the same comment to themselves is others is contradictory.

As for the perfect remark....I stand by what I said.....how can any of you "shocked" and upset by that blog act as if you never ever had a mean thought....

Go ahead and challege me or what I said.....but I challege you to improve your reading comprehension, perhaps if you had taken the time to read my post in totallity as well as Summerysmiles you would understand what I was saying.

An opinion is nothing more than a personal thought and JUDGEMENT you have come to......

And in closing perhaps this should be read about photos, unless you PROTECT your photos once they are posted on a public domain...anyone and everyone will and can "take" them and use them how they see fit...May not be right but it happens....I am a photographer and protect my photos, that I plan on using professionally, if posted in a public area, meaning the net.

Good day to you!

This place has turned so blood thirsty and self righeous.....what happened to being a grown-up and using our grey matter?

[eurolyons]

Eurolyons I havent a clue why you think I was speaking to you directly I wasn't...

I know you weren't directing your comments to me personally, I hadn't even posted in the thread yet...I was going back over the thread and got offended just reading that you would say that to anyone on this thread at all. There was NO ONE on this thread that was acting so righteously with their comments about not liking that site. THEY DIDN'T THINK THEY WERE "PERFECT!"


As for the perfect remark....I stand by what I said.....how can any of you "shocked" and upset by that blog act as if you never ever had a mean thought....

You know, I stand by what I say too...sure people say things, but doesn't mean that anyone (including the owner of the blog) that is going necessarily be like that 24/7!

You were assuming that those people that were saying anything to the contrary of the site were being "Judgmental!" They weren't. They were stating an opinion...just like you have!

Just because one has an opinion about something, yet sometimes might act or say something to the contrary does not mean that they are necessarily being hypocrites.

And that's my personal opinion.

[fruggs]

I think the site is funny.
I think meanspirited would be crochet snark they can be downright harsh. But the site we are discussing is funny. Some of that is aweful, I think it can also serve as a guide in what not to make so we can change the opinion that crochet is frumpy, awful stuff.
and, I am sure everyone has thought " what on earth" to things they've seen. this person is just bieng straightforeward about it instead of lying to be nice. While I dont want to be featured there, if I am, I get free advertising of my design, and while the author of said blog might not like it, someone else will, as proven by previous posts.

[fruggs]

Originally Posted by eurolyons

Just because one has an opinion about something, yet sometimes might act or say something to the contrary does not mean that they are necessarily being hypocrites.

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HYPOCRISY:

1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
2. An act or instance of such falseness.

how are they not bieng hypocrites?

[goldi316]

**Putting on the Fireman's Hat now, sigh...**

I'm closing this thread to further discussion. Feels like we've got brush-fires popping up all over the place today.