I watched this show last night on PBS, its playing several more times in the next few days.  I don’t normally get into shows about how people spend thousands (or in this case, sometimes hundreds of thousands) of dollars on clothing . . . but somehow, I couldn’t change the channel.  Pehaps it was the way it was presented, but there was something utterly facinating about watching the process that the designers go through to get these few pieces of clothing to the handful of people who will ever wear them.  The detail that goes into the construction of a single piece was incredible . . . watching someone embroider delicate motifs on to a bit of fabric that will become a skirt or hand stitch feathers to a dress that they follow the creation of from sketch to a spread in Vogue. 

At one point in the show they mentioned that the average garment requires something like a hundred and fifty hours of handcrafting to become what you see on the runways.  I couldn’t help but think, how many of us who knit spend that much time on a sweater? Does that mean in some ways our finished projects are in some way related to Haute Couture?