do the things

Someone pointed to an excellent post by the writer (Amber?) behind Not so swift: do the things Knit against the machin: The knitalong (April 4, 2005, I couldn't find any permalinks)

counterrevolutionary would be, then, blogs full of original items made to showcase the endowments of their makers and their makers alone (or the endowments of the makers' carefully chosen select clientele.) that would be something to see, wouldn't it? something a little more than looking at the progress of whatever cloned cardigan is being created by the twenty other knitalongers with which the soldier of the revolution allies herself (or himself). to be "fair", i have to guess that the reason these knitalongs are happening is because so many people want to knit this same item, and believe it will be complimentary to them when worn. to be fair, i will suggest that it is so. and to be totally unfair, i will say that i suspect that it is not. why then does all this petri-dish knitting produce a bunch of knitted items that, if they had voices, would all talk like meg ryan? sometimes, when i see a list of knitalongers and their little report cards of progress on their identical thingies, i get a mental picture of twenty women in big cardboard meg ryan masks.

There is a limit to how much you can quote from another blogger without plagiarizing, so I will not copy the knit-along suggestion given in ths post. Go and see for yourselves.

(In her post of 10 April, the writer replies to reader comments on this topic, including a reply to a Swede using the word parallellstickning. MY word, remember....)