I personally LOVED the R. Buchanan article - if you take it for what I did.
It freed me like EZ freed me with knitting. I agree there is a BIG
difference and real difference between worsted and woolen, but with most
spinners today that has become blurred and even obliterated completely - and
replaced by what I considered the rediculous wooly-worsted, worsted style,
woolen-worsted, etc. etc. Know you have heard the terms.
What I think Rita was trying to say was describe your yarn with terms that
really mean something to people who can't touch and feel it - rather than
try to put a "label" on it with an official type that is completely
inappropriate and non descriptive.
Taken in that light I think it is a wonderfully liberating piece - and may
get people to really think more about the yarns they produce and how to
describe them to other spinners/knitters/weavers. Keep the true woolen and
worsted yarns for what they are - but since they are rarely produced as they
should be, drop the labels when they don't fit.
Ah,the cover sweater. No offense, I adore EZ and she gave my knitting new
life, and have followed much of what Meg does and have some of her books,
but that sweater was in my opinion, just a nice sweater. (Wonderful
spinning no matter what you think of the sweater.) Meg is a BIG name so she
gets the cover, while the sweaters to die for featured in the showcase seem
to have 2nd billing. That is life - life is not fair.
If I had just seen the cover and not gotten the magazine in the mail I would
never have been tempted to pick it up and even look at it .
Ruthann
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