Weekly pattern

 You waited for it, you asked for it, and some said, that I started this series to be able to say this... LOL, that might even be right. 

Today's pattern is....

The Sophie scarf.

I'll put here, what I said about it in a knitting group, where someone brought it up...

Personally, it drives me up the wall (generally all Petite Knits stuff does that). Sorry, everyone, and - as we say in Hungarian- throw me to the chipmunks, for me it is so ... nothingspecial (while darn expensive, though I would be the first to say, that everyone charges for their stuff as they want and knitting - and all crafts- should be valued), and if people buy it, so good for her. 

This is not the fist time something extremely simple got popular, back then it was the Baktus shawl, but that, at least had the redeeming quality of being free (if I know it well. It was so simple, I've never knitted it.)

At the same time, I simply do not understand, why people jumped on it so much, but, I might be getting too old for this game. For giving it as a present... On one hand, I only give handmade, especially handknitted present to anyone, if I am 300% sure that it will be valued by the recepient, and if I give something, for this reason, I will take it seriously. This scarf is such a little nothing, for a gift I think it as a get-away-with-as-little-effort-as-possible, giving it a gosh-lets-throw-something-together-because-I-must feel.

On the top of it, I usually stay away from patterns-everybody-knits, (or VERY popular ones), with only a few exception (like I did knit a few Clapotis back in its days), but then I need to have something extra in the design. 

In the Sophie scarf, for me at least, there is NONE. 

Disclaimer: I have no intention of downtalking anyone's work, and anyones likes or dislikes. If you love this pattern, that is all for the better, the world is beautiful, because we are all different.