Grrrrrrr! (Knitting-related)
Nov. 2nd, 2005 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiSo, I've been looking for knitting patterns for mittens and gloves, since it's getting to be that time of year (though, to be honest, you couldn't tell from this week's weather -- it's been in the high 50s to low 70s since Sunday). I've now got a whole bunch of them, having borrowed some books from the library and having searched online. And I've started knitting various ones, to see what I like and what I don't.
One pattern, from knitty.com, looked really cool. It produces fingerless gloves with a mitten overlay so that you can keep your fingers warm but still have them to use when necessary. It seemed like the perfect thing for me. So I knit myself up a pair. Or, at least, I tried to. The pattern is rife with errors. I knit the first one, didn't love it but figured it was OK. I then knitted the second one, making the corrections to the pattern that I noted after the first time through. And oh, boy, does the second glove fit much better than the first. So now I'm on to knitting my third glove of this pair (well, actually, 3.5, as I had yarn-related issues on my first go on the second glove).
And here's my dilemma. This pattern was first put up as part of knitty's Fall 2002 issue. So it's been up there a while. The knitty website says that if one has an issue with a pattern, one should contact the designer and the designer will contact knitty with erratta (which will then be marked in red on the pattern page). Well, there are no corrections whatsoever on this pattern. Which leads me to two possible conclusions:
1. No one has ever reported errors to the designer
2. The designer hasn't reported the errors to knitty
And now I'm wondering if I should send the designer e-mail offering her my corrected version of the pattern. I'm sort of hesitant to e-mail the designer and say "your pattern is flawed." At the same time, however, others may be attempting this pattern and getting completely annoyed.
Thoughts?
One pattern, from knitty.com, looked really cool. It produces fingerless gloves with a mitten overlay so that you can keep your fingers warm but still have them to use when necessary. It seemed like the perfect thing for me. So I knit myself up a pair. Or, at least, I tried to. The pattern is rife with errors. I knit the first one, didn't love it but figured it was OK. I then knitted the second one, making the corrections to the pattern that I noted after the first time through. And oh, boy, does the second glove fit much better than the first. So now I'm on to knitting my third glove of this pair (well, actually, 3.5, as I had yarn-related issues on my first go on the second glove).
And here's my dilemma. This pattern was first put up as part of knitty's Fall 2002 issue. So it's been up there a while. The knitty website says that if one has an issue with a pattern, one should contact the designer and the designer will contact knitty with erratta (which will then be marked in red on the pattern page). Well, there are no corrections whatsoever on this pattern. Which leads me to two possible conclusions:
1. No one has ever reported errors to the designer
2. The designer hasn't reported the errors to knitty
And now I'm wondering if I should send the designer e-mail offering her my corrected version of the pattern. I'm sort of hesitant to e-mail the designer and say "your pattern is flawed." At the same time, however, others may be attempting this pattern and getting completely annoyed.
Thoughts?
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Date: 2005-11-03 03:39 pm (UTC)And mittens aren't that hard, I've found. Gloves, even, aren't that bad, even though they've got more fiddly bits because of the fingers.