People are being mean about sock knitting in chat....

[MadamePlatypus]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/1375/545754

I think if we get together we can take them. Knitting needles at the ready...

[MadamePlatypus]

More specifically they are being mean about a craft blogger...

[MrsBadger]

we are not being mean about knitting socks, knitting socks is fine and looks like fun.

but posting photos of your knitted socks on a blog like that, artfully posed with liquorice allsorts, is snurk-worthy

[MadamePlatypus]

I like looking at people's pictures of socks on their blogs. I have spent many happy hours looking at socks on people's blogs.

[MrsBadger]

but do you read the bilge aspirational copy too?

[MadamePlatypus]

I suppose I am really more of a 'cast on' podcast fan. But I don't think she is trying to be aspirational - I just think she wants to write about what she likes doing in a harmless kind of a way.

[MrsBadger]

she must hope someone aspires to it else she wouldn't be selling books on it

I think the real beef was with the magazines who 'sell' this kind of stuff as aspirational...