What Knitting Looks Like in Stock Photography

Lots of websites use stock photography to jazz up their sites without having to pay a photographer, but there are a lot of problem pictures out there for people who are really in the know. And sometimes even for people who aren’t.

BuzzFeed recently combed through the archives of some stock photography sites and found some really, really awful pictures related to knitting.

They show people knitting while scantily clad (which, you know, I do all the time), a man utterly confused by his knitting (of course), people holding and laughing at yarn balls, and all sorts of other nonsense.

But I think the one pictured above (which originally came from ThinkStock) is my favorite. So, she’s supposedly knitting the hat she’s wearing, even though that would not be possible. I’m also not even sure how they made the hat look like that, with one side unraveled.

Take a look and let me know your favorite of these stunningly bad pictures!

[Photo via BuzzFeed.]

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As I write this, it’s probably time to start thinking about winter knitting if you haven’t already. And it’s definitely time to think about gift knitting if you have any of that you plan to do for the holidays.

The Dreamy Waves Scarf from Knit Picks, designed by Stacey Winklepleck, would be a great project to go in either category.

It uses two different multicolored yarns and a simple repeating wave pattern to make a project that looks a lot more complicated and dramatic than it is. The gradient look happens naturally just by switching which yarn you’re knitting with.

This pattern uses worsted weight yarn so it’s a pretty quick project even though a scarf is large and this one is pretty wide. It measures 8.5 inches (21.5 cm) wide and 63 inches or 120 cm long. Of course you can make it longer or shorter as you like. As written it takes one ball of each color so it’s a pretty economical project, too.

It’s rated for intermediate knitters but if you know how to do various increases and decreases you’ll be all set. The pattern uses knit 2 together, make 1 left and right, centered double decrease and slip slip knit. All of the stitches are explained in a glossary in the pattern so even if you haven’t done all of them it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

The pattern also includes tons of options for different colorways in yarn that Knit Picks sells, so you can see how different combinations knit up before you buy the yarn. That’s such a great idea!

Of course if you already have two multicolored yarns with long color runs on hand, you can absolutely use them, too. It might also be fun, but would give you a totally different look, to use a solid color and a bunch of scraps or one multicolored yarn to see how the different colors play together. So many options!

You can grab this free pattern and check out all the color options at Knit Picks.

[Photo: Knit Picks]

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Dana Hinders says
June 24, 2014 at 12:13 pm
So funny! Thanks for sharing!
KittenWithAWhiplash says
June 24, 2014 at 3:03 pm
At least the knitting is knitting, not crochet. It’s ridiculous how often the two are mislabled, not just by the muggles – which we expect to happen – but by retailers and people in the fashion industry.

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