My Knitted Cat

I actually love this sweater - or the pattern. I had all this yarn lying around and wanted to use it for this sweater. I´ve made about 100 sweaters before so I never thought this should turn out totally different than all the others.

The pattern is from the 90s by the norwegian brand Rauma. The 90s was the time when sweaters were suppose to be BIG!

So I knitted a size or two too big, and knitted too loose and ended up with a sweater looking more like a tent.

So I had to put in the washing machine to shrink it. And it came out great.

But it´s not too small now - it´s a very varm and funny sweater. So all the work wasn´t in vain.

All this made me think about sizes. They are NOT what they used to be. Size M in the 90s is now size XL or XXL.

All to make normal people feel bad. And maybe the people selling diet products are sponsers of those making clothes?

Anyway, normal bodies are out. We have to look like straws only eating an apple a week. How sick is it to tell people that they are not good enough just because they don´t fit the too small clothes in the shops? And to show us every day that we should be really thin to be successful and accepted.

That´s just a way to put us all down. Who really look like the ideal woman without beeing sick or beeing fixed in photoshop?

So my new sweater is going to give me great joy. I can sit inside the sweater and sence the warm feeling of something I made. And I didn´t had to be humiliated in a shop. So ladies - go out and show who you are. You are more than good enough as you are. Don´t ever let anyone tell you the opposite. That would be a big lie.