k mart ad

Hey, I saw that one! Disgusting!

Higs, Katherine

Got it, Noreen. Now if you can actually get him to read it outloud(or at all). Happy Holidays!!

-- Carey in MA

yes dear - as soon as I read it. And if you are remotely interested, I have more detail on what that idiot actually said, and a beautiful letter to the editor in reply.

Shelagh

Quite right, very interested! If you wish to share with me offlist, just email me at noreenDOTjATgmail.com

I'd like to read it, too, please.

Higs, Katherine

Amanda !! Niceto hear your presents were well accepted .. mirjam l>

YMMV The problem of those `ads` is that they spread , and form part of opinions .....i once had a teacher tell my daughter in school ,,, "if your mother wasn`t so lazy to buy a sweater, she would have knitted you one !!!!" I knitted my children regulation [school clothes] in purewool , not the manmade bad unwarm quality that was sold as uniforms... mirjam

I'd like to see an ad for handknits that showed people of different heights and proportions in badly fitting ready-made jumpers - sleeves that are too short or too long, necklines that restrict the breathing or slip down over the shoulders, hemlines that reach the knees or barely cover the middle. Then contrast that with a neatly fitted, made to measure garment - I the handknits would definitely win! Maybe one of the yarn companies will do this, one day!

My motivation for handkitting was being 5ft 2 with narrow shoulders, in the days when loose fitting drop-shouldered sweaters were in fashion. At least if I made my own, I could do a modified drop shoulder and also make the sleeves a little shorter.

Liz