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Baby Surprise Progress

I decided to finish the Baby Surprise Jacket today. I've only got about six rows to go, and then it's a couple of simple seams:

This pattern is from Elizabeth Zimmerman's "Knitting Workshop" book and consists of a single short and sparse page of instructions. I've given up on reading ahead; I just don't get what she's saying until I get to that point with my knitting. Still, it all seems to be working out okay. This has been a nice substitute for sock knitting the last few weeks.

It's been an interesting week in knit-bloggerland, hasn't it? First Crazy Daisy gets ripped for posting her political opinion in her very own blog. Then Wendy pulls the mask off a vicious commenter.

Here's what I think. If you normally go into people's houses and rip 'em a new one because you don't like a magazine on their coffee table or because of the Kerry sign in their front yard, then it's probably okay to leave mean and vicious comments in blogs. If it's your normal habit to make anonymous crank phone calls and call people names right to their faces, then it would be consistent for you to do this in cyberspace, too. But if you don't normally do these things in your "real" life, then maybe perhaps you ought not to do it in your "virtual" life either.

I find it oddly hilarious that this behavior is occurring amongst knitters, for cryin' out loud.

I also think there are more than a few blog readers out there with a sad misunderstanding about the nature of blogs and our freedom of speech. Not a single one of us is compelled to conform our blogs to any standard whatsoever. If you don't like what you're reading, move along please. No need to vandalize the place on the way out.

Comments

Nicely put -- but of course it is unfortunate that it has to be "put". Dang.

Reading down your blog (yes, I should read "up"), I couldn't help thinking, yes, that WAS a baby surprise ;-)

Posted by: Patricia Tryon at November 8, 2004 11:08 PM