If you think politics is brutal, you definitely don’t have the stomach for the vicious back and front-stabbing and gender/race/weight/sexual preference rules of the knitting world… 🥺
One prominent knitting YouTuber questioned why Michelle Obama was photographed on the cover of Vogue Knitting while not wearing a hand knit, and the crowd went wild. The knit-vlogger profusely apologized which was chum in the water.
Sometimes people ask me if I would write up and sell my patterns. But you can’t do this successfully unless you design for and use morbidly obese models, multiracial models, androgynous models. Anything less than this makes you a hate criminal. Catering to a mob is exhausting.
This is the comment I was talking about. Woman has nearly 40k Insta followers and a successful YouTube channel on various fun and frivolous knitting topics. It’s not the Discovery Channel. It’s humiliating and depressing just to read this … 
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