Persistent
Once upon a time, years and years and years ago, somebody left a weird comment on a blog post or maybe a tweet.
I’d posted a picture of the second of something…second sock, second mitt, I don’t even remember at this point. And they had this whole /extensive/ theory about how I hadn’t actually knit two of the thing. They though I was just carefully taking extra pictures of the one single sock/mitt that I had actually knit and timing them To Fool Everyone For My Own Nefarious Reasons.
It was…intense.
And while Now Me would just laugh (I mean of all the things on the internet to get Really Really Mad about…a stranger’s photos of their knitting seems to be near the bottom of the list), apparently Then Me was slightly worried other people might think this. Because ever since I’ve tended to take pictures of the second of something on top of the first.
All because someone was a weirdo on the internet more than half a decade ago.
I hope they’ve found something else to focus their attentions on in the mean time. And I hope whatever interactions you have on the internet today are the good kind.
The strangest part of this is that you have to knit a second mitten or sock, anyway! So why fake it!!
Clearly the last photo has been Photoshopped, hee hee.
Snort…my photoshop skills are Not That Good!
I know, right? It’s SUCH a weird thing to get salty about!
That person KNEW you were known all over town as the person who wore mismatched mitts and socks. 😂🤣
Negative comments are so much more memorable than positive ones! It takes real effort to focus on the positives that people give us, while those negatives just pop up any old time.
With that in mind, here’s another positive: THOSE MITTS ARE GORGEOUS!!!
So true Jean, so true.
Please, next time you receive a negative comment, just figure that person is not having a good day and don’t take it personally.. I follow your blog because I really enjoy seeing all the beautiful creative things that you design. Keep up the good work!
Maybe that long-ago commentator found your knitting to be so perfectly consistent that they couldn’t believe it was two separate items? A weird sort of compliment, poorly expressed??
Even if it were only a “single”, that mitten is beautiful!!
If, hypothetically, you were bamboozling us all by only knitting one… why would they care??? It’s your knitting. I can’t fathom why you would only want 1 sock or 1 mitten and then feel the need to construct an elaborate ruse to fool us all, but if you did would it matter?
The mitts are lovely, BTW. And at least this person gave you a funny story to tell.
A really excellent question, and one I have never been able to find an answer for.