Last summer, the lovely and talented Kate Atherley put out a Twitter call, looking for knitters to test knit for her new accessories book. At that point, I had taken Kate’s sock knitting class and I had even test knit for her before, so I thought it might be fun. I sent her off a message, volunteering to knit for her and I got back a surprising response: “Do you think you might want to knit a sample to be photographed for the book?” I was agape. Me? Knit for a book? I was honoured that she even asked and I responded that I would love to.
And then, almost immediately, the inevitable “imposter syndrome” set in. “What if I am not good enough? I am not a real knitter. What if the item I knit is not fit to photograph?” (I know…what exactly is a real knitter, anyway? And I have knit socks, lace, and so many other projects that this is a completely ridiculous train of thought, but there you have it. As anyone who knows me well can attest, I utterly lack self confidence.)
Because of Kate’s deadline, I was afraid to commit to socks, so she offered me her fingerless mitts to knit. Perfect….sounded like something I could do. I knit them up, and nervously sent them back to Kate, and hoped they met her expectations.
Fast forward to December, and the release of Knit Accessories. I leafed through it at the Purple Purl, and there were my mitts, beautifully photographed. (Photography is one of the things I really want to improve upon.) Kind of exciting when you have never had anything you knit print before. I was pretty thrilled and more than a bit proud.
This morning, Kate tweeted a new blog post. Knit Accessories has been reviewed, and quite positively I might add, by Vogue Knitting magazine. So excited for her! So I take a look at the photo of the review, and would you look at that? The pic they selected to run with the story….my mitts.
Photo Credit: Kate Atherley
Something I knit is in VOGUE KNITTING! I understand that the pic was probably just the right size for the space or something, but I don’t care. I might be unreasonably pleased with myself.
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Very cool – I know someone famous!! The mitts are lovely. Give yourself more credit.
You are so sweet! I am hardly famous…Kate is the famous one! But its still sorta cool. I think I am going to have to pick up a paper copy of the magazine for posterity.
OMG I am so excited for you – as a photographer I know there is nothing cooler than seeing your work in print! And we can make a ‘photo play date’ if you want to talk imagery!
Thank you – there are no words for how much I would LOVE that! I have taken some photo classes before (as in two decades ago!) and I really need to learn how to take better pics of all my hard work 😀 I feel bad when I post terrible pics and I know I can make my FOs look so much better!
That is seriously cool!!