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re: All Hail the Snood!

NannG — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:47:13 GMT

I want to say that I have looked forward to the daily emails and enjoyed every delicious detail of the lovely things you offer up for us to make. However, lately I have had a bad taste in my mouth and today takes the cake! A rose by any other name...? You cannot use a word that already has a historical meaning and say it is something that it is not just to promote your products. And I don't even want to talk about the total miss-use of the word 'Moebius". What's going on Ladies? This use to be such an informative email now it is misleading and does not make me want to dash to my yarn stash with enthusiasm. ...sigh...

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Cbuechner — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:43:13 GMT

I am making this scarf from the 2001 Fall issue and I am stuck on the edging.... wish someone had a written direction of it instead of the chart .... don't know where the stitches on the right side of the corner stich come from...... if I just knit them from those there it makes my count off..can someone help me with this.....

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melinda-kq — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:48:08 GMT

Both of my sons are proud black and orange Tiger graduats from Lakewood HS in Colorado. I love the patterns and lessons on this site. Thanks.

re: All Hail the Snood!

DesireeB — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:05 GMT

I like the patterns shared but I too was misled by the "new" definition of the term snood. In an art form that is as infinitely creative as knitting, it might be a good idea to take a few more minutes to create a name that fits.

In response to the comments about the "special" publications that are not part of our regular subscription, I will add a thought ot two. First, your regular subscribers are the ones who have voted for your publication with their wallets and their loyalty -- that used to count for something but perhap it doen't anymore. Additionally, I have been very diappointed and close to insulted by the last few "special" offerings. Many of the patterns are not new but reprints from previous magazines. At the newstand/LYS price of $14.95 for the last one I purchased, I felt cheated when I sat down and really got a chance to look at it -- I think I have over half of these patterns in my magazine archive. Many of the others were not that exciting and I would have returned it if it had been a book. All in all, with the knitting daily having become more of an sales vehicle than a technique, sharing and learning forum and the publications disappointing, I am almost ready to move on from Interweave. Too bad, because it used to be the first place I would look and the magazines I truly looked forward to seeing in my mailbox or on the newstand.

re: All Hail the Snood!

DianneR — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:45:15 GMT

The pattern is nice but what I really would like to know is where to get the pattern for the moebius shawl on the manequin in the video it is fabulous!

re: All Hail the Snood!

Poldira — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:52:40 GMT

A snood was never considered a scarf/hood/cowl in the 40's and 50's. This is simply an attempt to re-wrap a vintage term so that people will buy something. Fashion for the masses in the past few years has been about retro. They're running out of ideas.

As creators, we should keep our terms. So many methods have been lost over time because of "term recycling". Just because this person called it "snood" in the Wall Street Journal doesn't mean we have to let them. Employees and editors of Interweave are doing history of the crafts we love a dis-service.

re: All Hail the Snood!

Sarah@189 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:12:39 GMT

Thank God you wrote this post. I started a thread a week ago on Ravelry citing the comeback of the snood from an article in the Wall Street Journal. According to them, the tubular form of the snood was was originally popularized in the late 40s/early 50s and was huge in the UK in the 1980s. Anyways, my fun little post got more flak for it than you can shake a stick at. Who knew that word usage was such a big issue? It's like jumpers vs. jumpers, only people got irate. Thanks for this helpful piece!

re: All Hail the Snood!

MelisaM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:04 GMT

Well, it's not a moebius, and doesn't drape nearly as elegantly as a real moebius, but I like the stitch pattern. I might use it to make a real moebius; one that has the proper half-twist.

Funny thing is, I coudn't get a real good look, but it looks like the gray one on the mannequin might be an actual moebius, and not made the way she described at all.

re: All Hail the Snood!

LauraL@22 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:08:59 GMT

Hello,

For a variation on your current suggestion of what is a "snood", perhaps your other readers would like to see what a "standard" version of a "snood" looks like, (what I had always thought a "snood" to be, actually). What I'm referring to is the sort of hair "net" that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s (my mother frequently wore one that her mother, my grandmother, had apparently crocheted for her). Here's a link to a "public domain" pattern that was originally found in "Madame Weigel's Journal of Fashion" on September 1,1944: http://www.knitting-and.com/

Best wishes,

Laura

re: All Hail the Snood!

jmamrosch — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:08:00 GMT

I have to agree with some of the other comments concerning the definition of a snood. I am not sure you are trying to make a continuous collar of a moebius. I have knitted a moebius, and if I understand correctly, a moebius is a twisted piece. So, what are you really trying to make, a collar or a moebius?

re: All Hail the Snood!

Kathleen Cubley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:16:41 GMT

HI folks! I agree that this usage of snood isn't the same as the traditional snood from the 40s, see below from the post:

"Today's snood is something altogether different—no hairnet involved!—it's really a garment that is part scarf, part hood, part scarf.

Even though the media is calling this accessory a snood, I think it's really better named an infinity scarf—no beginning or end—and you can wear it an infinite number of ways: as a hood, scarf, or shawl."

As times change, so does fashion, so I hope you'll enjoy the new twist on the snood.

Kathleen

re: All Hail the Snood!

MaryF@2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:08:08 GMT

Glad to see that others feel the same way I do. A snood has it's own definition. These are not snoods.

re: All Hail the Snood!

CarynS@5 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:53:30 GMT

Anne I agree I was really disappointed to see that the article was not at all what the title purported to be about. I wish they would stop trying to change the names of things. If you want a name for such an article, make one up, don't use a name that is already being used! I was so looking forward to seeing how to knit a real 1940's hair accessory. Pat, you are dead on. Enough with the name changes!!!

Might I state her also, I am sort of irked about all the little extra special issues that Interweave is printing now that are NOT being offered as bonuses for subscribers! I decided to get a subscription precisely to save money on the newsstand price and also to not have to go to a store to purchase. Now it seems like there is a whole other quarterly magazine being offered under the same name that must be ordered additionally or I need to go to a store to buy. Why not just make Interweave an eight issue a year magazine and include these "special issues" that seem to be coming out every couple of months (really not all that special when they come out so frequently!).

re: All Hail the Snood!

annekaelber — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:42 GMT

I was so excited when I read the subject of today's blog! I've really wanted to make some of these old-fashioned accessories and bring them into the 2000s with style and class.

Oh, how disappointed I was when I realized the article wasn't about the snoods of yesteryear, but something completely different. If there are other readers out there like me who were hoping for something a little more retro, take a look at the Snowflake Snood by Lucia R. Hicks (there's a link to the free pattern over on Ravelry).

I'll note also that KnittingDaily may get dropped from my email inbox for the same reasons Interweave Knits was dropped from my snail mail box: nothing that interests me! I live in Arizona and I'm a plus-size girl. That pretty much rules out 95% of the designs in Knits. Maybe you guys should put out a magazine called Interweave Knits Home -- I am not buying Winter 2009 Knits *just* for the Paper Lantern patterns.

Anne.

re: All Hail the Snood!

Gennie Winkler — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:13 GMT

Not a SNOOD at all! Think back in time or check your dictionary. My mac dictionary calls a snood an "ornamental hairnet;" quite right! Think about Marmee in Little Women with her hair in a pouchy net at the nape of her neck. This is a snood. Any of your other names will do fine for this handsome little item...but NOt a snood.

Gennie Winkler, Lake Forest Park, WA