Well, even craft-land is not untouched by controversy.
Several of the embroidery blogs have been commenting in the past few days how a particular new embroidery company has a few designs out that are somewhat similar to some produced by Jenny Hart, of Sublime Stitching.
There's been a lot of argument back and forth, discussion of the dreaded "c" word (copyright), responses from the accused company....It's on the verge of getting ugly and that makes me kind of sad.
And you know, I tend to feel like the best response in a case like this? Support the business you believe is in the right. I've dealt with Sublime Stitching in the past - I've always had good fast customer service (once when they sent me a pattern in error, they told me to keep it, and they sent on the correct pattern at no postage cost to me). So I decided to "vote with my wallet" and bought a couple pattern packs I'd been thinking about getting.
(Even if I hate their "This ain't your gramma's embroidery" tagline with the fierce heat of 1000 exploding suns and wish they'd find something less ageist and self-consciously hip. For the typical reasons: a. My grammas were very cool and b. if it were not for all the grammas who embroidered, knit, tatted, did crochet, etc., those skills might well be lost to us today. I have several pieces of filet crochet one of my grandmothers did; it's amazing the skill in those small pieces.
And yeah, yeah, I realize it's mostly a joke, but there also used to be lots of jokes about women drivers...)
Also, a lot of the times I DO like what might be classed as "gramma" embroidery: I love this little vintage bird design from Doe-c-Doe. I think it would be wonderful made up in a variety of different colors (red, blue, yellow) and made into a small quilt with some kind of pretty sashing between the embroidered blocks. I think it would also be wonderful as a single bird on a throw pillow.
(I'm taking a break from a textbook review. I'm being paid to review a few chapters of a new non-majors textbook. I'm a **biologist** and it very nearly put me to sleep, so I think I'm going to have to get out my red pen and channel my (now-retired) graduate advisor and write "This needs work" all over it.)
2 comments:
I think that bird design would make a very nice quilt. Possibly you could "flip" the design so some of the birds are facing in the opposite direction. But even if you didn't do that, I can this looking sort of like a "Sunbonnet Sue" pattern as a quilt. Would you need to enlarge it to use it on a quilt?
from what i've read, this "other" company is trying to stylize themselves as an indie company, when they're actually not. indiewashing, it's being called. sigh.
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