For instance one of my next sweaters is going to be The Easy Bulky One from Joji Locatelli. (Can you tell I like the designer yet?). It's a shape that could easily be replicated, and when you consider just how much fiddling I have to do on an average sweater to get it to fit nicely on me, it's not usually a problem to do without purchasing the pattern.
And yet, I do purchase the pattern. Always. Even when I use nothing directly from a pattern at all.
I do it because if I didn't, I would quickly become a knitter with a dozen versions of the same sweater in my closet, a top down, set in look sleeve type sweater with a v neck or a henley style round neck. Maybe stripes on a few. And that would be it.
I pay designers as much as possible because I need them out there doing their thing, thinking up new and interesting ways of seeing details. I need them to sort out interesting details like Granito's little trick to get those lovely ridges, or to establish a pretty lace, like Kate Davies Myrtle or come up with pretty designs and combinations of peerie patterns, and or innovative colour progressions. I need them to lead me to something different and fresh and new. Shawls and cowls and even socks are the same. Yes even socks.
I would knit even if other people did not sell patterns for me to follow, but it would be a lot less interesting.
I pay them for the inspiration, for the hand up that helps keep me ever engaged in this lovely craft.
Byt the way, that next up sweater? I am pretty sure it is going to be the Easy Bulky One, and sitting here this morning, I am pretty sure that it is going to be made in my beloved Harrisville Flax and Wool Blend. Yes I thought it would be a vest but I think I will get more wear out of it this way, and I have no problem knitting this slightly light for the design yarn. It's going to be an easy enough to get a gauge that works and then just to knit. And then again... You just never know.
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