While catching up on my friends via Rav, I noticed Lyndsey (owner of The Yarn Garden, my not-quite-LYS shop and fellow guild member) is making a sock blanket. In that post, she links to a blanket post in The Heathen Housewife's blog, which I'd visited back when Stephanie/Yarn Harlot made her plea for yarn. Anyway, I clicked over today to see how it all turned out. And then, I wanted to see whether she had, in fact, entered the blanket in her state fair and how it did. But I did a double take when I saw her latest post was all about me. Wow, that six degrees of separation really is true. Except it wasn't all about me. And now I'm kind of sad. ;-)
Actually, I've meant to ask her something for the longest time (at least a year)...was hers the original (as original as something can be, when we're all using the same two stitches) sock scrap, mitered square blanket? Because it seems like hers was, at least the first I'd read about. Another of my not-quite LYSs has offered classes on the Memory Keeper Throw® by Meg Manning. I saw the blanket-in-progress in the shop last Spring and was excited because Shelly was coming to MI. Except it wasn't her? I don't know Meg Manning and never took any of the classes but some fellow guild members did. They came back to the guild to show off their projects and share the technique, all gushing about Meg's class.
The whole thing just annoyed me because...well, because I'd read all about Shelly's Blankie and it seemed like these are basically the same sock scrap, mitered square blankets. I don't know which came first but one has detailed tutorials--for free--on her blog and the other slaps a registered name on it and then charges people for classes?
Actually, I've meant to ask her something for the longest time (at least a year)...was hers the original (as original as something can be, when we're all using the same two stitches) sock scrap, mitered square blanket? Because it seems like hers was, at least the first I'd read about. Another of my not-quite LYSs has offered classes on the Memory Keeper Throw® by Meg Manning. I saw the blanket-in-progress in the shop last Spring and was excited because Shelly was coming to MI. Except it wasn't her? I don't know Meg Manning and never took any of the classes but some fellow guild members did. They came back to the guild to show off their projects and share the technique, all gushing about Meg's class.
The whole thing just annoyed me because...well, because I'd read all about Shelly's Blankie and it seemed like these are basically the same sock scrap, mitered square blankets. I don't know which came first but one has detailed tutorials--for free--on her blog and the other slaps a registered name on it and then charges people for classes?
update: Oops, it seems like I didn't need to ask because this is old news (I searched on and off for the past year and just now thought to check on Ravelry...hah, shoulda known I'd find it there) and I'm not the only one who thinks the whole thing stinks.
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How interesting that you should post the info on the Yarn Garden. I just found out about that shop yesterday when my hubby cut their ad out of our country journal.
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