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I've lost the Purity Spiral / knitters thread but look at this

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FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 15/03/2020 11:15

The GeordieKnits (not Geordie Knitter who's a different person) podcaster who came out of nowhere to drive much of the purity spiral in the UK has been jailed for fraud.

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/18300481.woman-jailed-12k-day-trip-disneyland-holiday-fraud/

I saw it on Instagram this morning www.instagram.com/p/B9orQ2WpJO6/?igshid=t6lflwwba82z

So the accusations of profiteering on the basis of holding the moral high ground seem to have substance.

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popehilarious · 15/03/2020 16:41

She was arrested for this 4 YEARS AGO?! Blimey.
She's been asking for donations for various things: from her Ko-Fi: "I’m currently having a bit of a rubbish time with my health and being ripped off by someone who sold me a car, so any donations are very gratefully received. I need the car to be able to get the GeordieKids to and from school safely"
Along with picture of child's school uniform naming their school.

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FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 15/03/2020 15:46

Grin where there's humans there'll be strife I imagine Thinkingabout1t

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Thinkingabout1t · 15/03/2020 15:20

Blimey. It’s a whole world I know nothing of. I thought knitting was a peaceful craft, and I imagined knitters as an amiable group comparing patterns. Gosh.

BlackberryViolet · 15/03/2020 14:47

I’ve been waiting for some comment from some of the ones who jumped on him. Nothing from any of them apart from some justifying what happened to him. It’s doesn’t matter what she’s done apparently. Makes me more determined to actually stay out of the on line knitting community now. It’s utterly toxic. There are so many designers and dyers I won’t touch anymore

Twunk · 15/03/2020 14:39

Thanks Flavia - now I’m looking into it, it all makes sense.

Twunk · 15/03/2020 14:08

Thanks. Tbh she just sounds like a grifter.

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FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 15/03/2020 14:01

I don't know an awful lot, she started an Instagram account and a YouTube podcast under that name and when the purity spirals started she was right in the middle of it from what I can remember.

Then when Nathan Taylor posted his poem on Instagram about the knitting wars and use of the diversknitty podcast she seems to have found a UK based target. I watched Nathan Taylor's podcast a while ago that was a rebuttal of the accusations and while he didn't name her, it was pretty obvious it was her. It was a bit of a slog of 40 mins I think but she targeted anywhere that was holding a class taught by him and prominent followers of him on Instagram and told them to distance themselves because of his act of violence against a woman of colour who just wanted to speak to him.

He wasn't violent but he said did shout at her to go away. Her YouTube channel disappeared after his video apparently.

It was all a bit odd from the start tbh.

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Twunk · 15/03/2020 13:59

29 months is a hefty sentence, and it’s not suspended.

Coyoacan · 15/03/2020 13:58

I don't know who she is, but the article does say she didn't make any money out of it. Just lost a lot of other people's money.

Twunk · 15/03/2020 13:33

Can someone tell me a bit about this Geordieknits thing?

Twunk · 15/03/2020 13:24

OMG I know her! I used to work with her.

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FlaviaAlbiaWantsLangClegBack · 15/03/2020 13:20

I wonder, it seemed like so many people and businesses jumped to denounce him before they were denounced themselves.

They must realise they've been played by a con artist now but I wonder how they'll handle it.

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Saucery · 15/03/2020 12:06

So with all that hanging over her (fraud investigation etc) she decided to attack another person’s livelihood and haul a load of other businesses and crafters along with her? Wow. I hope they are ashamed of being taken in.

FloralBunting · 15/03/2020 11:26

Wow. I don't know much about it, but I can't say I'm.surprised that another main driver of this bully cult has turned out to be a nefarious, integrity free person.

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