It’s a cute sweater so you might be wondering: what’s botched about the Ralph Lauren sweater. Take a careful look on the side seam. Notice the patterns don’t match at the side seams? You’d think for $179 on sale or $250 original price Ralph Lauren’s sweater assemblers would take the time to make sure they line up the patterns before seaming. <\/p>\n
But no. <\/p>\n
If you entered this in the county fair, the judges would ding you for that. Oh… well… <\/p>\n
But the more egregious error is in the copy. Here’s how it reads:<\/p>\n
Our handsome classic-fitting golf vest is crafted in a supremely soft blend of linen, merino wool, cotton, cashmere and silk, intarsia-knit<\/b> with a preppy Fair Isle design for polished style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Intarsia?! Intarsia?!!!! This is not intarsia-knit<\/b>. The cute child’s sweater shown to the below is intarsia knit.
\nPurlbee<\/a> discusses the difference between fair-isle and intarsia.<\/p>\nOk. I got that off my chest. Sometime in the next few months I will probably post a rant about a copy writer mistaking knitting for crochet or vice a versa. <\/p>\n
Feel free to post rants about anything. This includes global warming rants, hobby based rants or whatever. But Dr. Shoos\/Cadbury: I’ve added your name in the plugin that makes you wait. So you will need to pause between rants. This applies to two other people. You know who you are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s been a while since I blogged about knitting– a subject none of you care about. Of course you may all treat this as an open thread. \ud83d\ude42 I finished a sweater coat for me, started a new one for Jim and began thinking about my next project. Thinking about projects involves running google searches … Continue reading Knitting Interlude: Nit-picking ads & open thread.<\/span>
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