In case you’re thinking about holiday gifts already…

There’s a new site for craft items that should never have been made: Regretsy. Crocheted toilet paper roll, anyone? How about a Christmas nativity featuring meerkats?

I’m going to skip the holiday gift guide this year, because Regretsy has you covered.

Visual Rhetoric of Knitting

Jordynn and I talk a lot about "visual rhetoric"--a phrase in our field of research that essentially asks how images make and convey meaning.

I was thinking a lot about visual rhetoric when I picked up some vintage knitting needles and saw this packaging.

There are so many things going on in this image, I almost jumped with joy.

This pictures seems to be saying that knitting makes you beautiful, angelic, and gentle (and perhaps blond); that knitting is a meek, humble, and feminine thing to do; that good and pretty women knit.

Does anyone else think this packaging looks like a Summer's Eve label?

Why Scarves?

Okay, this is the funniest thing I've read all week.

Just think about it as you knit another scarf.

And for your sweater knitters, check out this post, too.