ouch, plus - knit hat sweatshops?

[verbminx]

Terrible, terrible cramps today. I've slept a lot. B-cat wants to sleep on my heating pad whenever I vacate it.
I am devoid of energy or ambition; will probably go watch the Emmy Awards, as there is nothing else on.

Now, if Eugenia Kim doesn't know how to knit, why is she designing knit hats? (There's a big issue there; you need to know how different gauges and stitches work together, what pulls in and how much, etc.) And why would someone who'd only been knitting for seven months take a job knitting hats - for 1/10 their sale value, no less? I really don't feel sorry for the girl who wrote this article, like she should feel OK having a beef with the Hat People because she couldn't knit properly, but it seems like the Hat People didn't really know what they were doing either.

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I know I can't knit properly

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I knitted a winter hat last year and this woman in one of the shops in Chinatown wanted me to make some for her shop. Amused me because it wasn't that well-made and took too long to knit (I think I had knitted and unravelled the one hat 7 times). There's no way I would have made any money between the yarn cost and my time.

I'm addicted to trying to make hats though. I taught myself to crochet yesterday so I can work on some hats after seeing all of the ones ana voog has been making.