Tiphanie: Oh gawd. Just finally had a look at the latest issue of Magknits. And Chance is one fugly pair. Looks like someone shoveled their hands in someone’s stomach and came out with half-digested Italian dinner smeared on their hands.
Tiphanie: Ugly ugly shit. I was like, WHAT THE FUCK??? ARE THEY TRYING TO DRIVE AWAY NEW KNITTERS?
Frarochvia: Yeah really. Blergh.
Frarochvia: The hat was cute but she could have done seamless. There is no reason to not do a seamless hat.
Tiphanie: Ugh. The hat looks horrible. Sorry. It’s not cute to me and I don’t like the bottom. It looks like it was bound off too tightly. I can see this model thinking, shit, this BO stitches are pressing down hard on my forehead. I just know that when I take it off, I’m gonna have one red line running across my forehead.
Frarochvia: Haha. Yeah. It would have been better done a different way. I don’t get the seaming.
Frarochvia: You’re right. The hat just looks like it’s too tight.
Tiphanie: Okay. Cherie was funny. I wouldn’t mind a hot water bottle but come on, I want Sven or a manly name.
Frarochvia: Cherie is cute but I don’t need the decoration.
Tiphanie: Yeah. Just knit the damn bag and if I really want a water bottle, I would knit a tube instead and stick a tail, maybe cat’s ears and whiskers. Call it my catwarmer. I need to come up with a better name.
Frarochvia: The purse is awful.
Tiphanie: I wouldn’t make it period and it looks like a piece of turd. Why didn’t she just use the poor yarn as a scarf or better yet, send it to me. I will treat it better than she did.
Tiphanie: This purse is ugly. No one would even want to mug someone carrying this funky bag. That is the only reason I would consider knitting this. This is one funky anti-mugging purse.
Frarochvia: Bwahahahahahah
Tiphanie: and where’s the stupid cable? I can’t even see any cables.
Tiphanie: Seriously, if they want to make me knit something, they need to get more designs that would entice ME, of all people who are ANTI-craft to knit this.
Frarochvia: Yeah. It’s bad.
Tiphanie: Disappointing issue. I liked the zine and I loved some of their designs. But too many questionable designs.
Frarochvia: This issue is terrible.
Tiphanie: Flower Corsages cute and the kid’s even cuter. I want to adopt her and good thing is that she looks happy. Not one of those kids with a bribed look onher. She looks happy because she knows she’s one darn cute babe with flowers. I would even knit flowers.
Frarochvia: Apparently the goal was to just focus on single skeins of handspun.
Tiphanie: Blech. Then they should have knitted a better pair of fingerless gloves. Not with damn tentacles.
Frarochvia: Back to normal next month thank g-d.
Tiphanie: If they actually wanted tentacles they should have used them as trimming. Maybe one inch tops on the gloves, not all over the damn gloves.
Frarochvia: I agree. At the cuff.
Tiphanie: Something. Yeah. Cuff, whatever.
Tiphanie: Baby Socks. Cute. No dinging words. Would I knit them? Yes- but no babies to knit for so that’s moot.
Tiphanie: I will not knit anything from that issue. Maybe flower corsages if I have any handspun yarn just waiting to be used.
Frarochvia: No, me neither. I think they donated the worst possible yarns.
Tiphanie: and the antimugging purse still ugly.
Frarochvia: I think I prefer crocheted or i-cord flowers. I-cord flowers are easy and fun. Anti-mugging purse fricking ugly.
Tiphanie: I can think of many better examples of using handspun yarn. A tiny purse with a long strap that will hold one cell phone and a wallet when you just don’t want a big purse. A car pillow. A car blanket. Pads for the steering wheel. Sunglasses case. A long hot water bottle. Pretty knitted vase. Maybe buy a cheap vase and put it inside the knitted vase.
Frarochvia: A pillowsachet.
Tiphanie: Cute pillow for your sofa or even for your bed. Knitted photo frame. Knit one and then glue it on the photo frame.
Frarochvia: A kitty collar.
Tiphanie: A knitted photograph album cover. See? A pair of fingerless gloves would be fine but why couldn’t they have picked out something tentacles- less? A pair of legwarmers.
Frarochvia: Why couldn’t they have picked out a better hat?
Tiphanie: See? I came up with at least 10 ideas that will entice me to knit something different with pretty handspun yarn.
Tiphanie: headband!
Frarochiva: I like the frame idea.
Tiphanie: Dickie. I wouldn’t mind a dickie if I ever move to Alaska.
Frarochvia: I would but that’s me. Haha.
Tiphanie: And I would even think about knitting a cover for my French press. A teapot cozy. Placemats.
Frarochvia: You are brilliant.
