I think this one post is a wonderful illustration of one of the big, big reasons we love machine knitting. Synnove is making pants, and she didn't have enough sizes in her pattern, so she did the math and knitted and tested her new "recipe" (pattern).
Trousers are so very hard to fit. Even if you do very careful math, they may not fit the way the recipient wants them to fit. And, all our body shapes are so very different.
A hand knitter would probably not attempt pants, since there are so many stitches in them. As for knitting for someone else knowing she might have to rip and start over, she would be appalled at that kind of knitting for a "test." In contrast, plain machine knitting like this goes so quickly that we can knit and rip as much as we want until we get the garment we desire. Sure, some of our projects are much too fancy to knit, rip, and re-knit repeatedly, but we can still do if it we get our stubborn on.
(I unravel things with a vengeance with my cone winder. The pieces vanish so quickly that there is simply no time to agonize over my rip-decision! Y'all don't see all my unraveling - you only get the patterns after I work out my issues.)
When you look at her blog, scroll down the left hand side and use the Translate widget. The English translation can be a little strange, but hey, her work is so gorgeous that I love to look at her blog even if I don't quite understand the narratives.
Synnove's Blog
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