If a stitch drops in the woods, and there's no one there to see it...

After writing up that post about the yarn recall, I browsed through a few of pages at the Knit With website, and I came across one titled "Services." Yup, that's right: they have staff members who will do all your finishing work. They can even add in professional-looking buttonholes and repair moth holes and do alterations.

The section "Custom Knitting" begins with this sentence: "Have an idea for an ideal sweater but lack either the time or skill to accomplish it? Make The Knit With’s custom knitting service your silent partner in executing the garment of your dreams." Now, in the description of this process, they do mention that measurements are taken of the person for whom the garment is being made. So presumably the recipient is in on the fact that this store is knitting their clothing.

But how often, I wonder, do people commission pieces from the Knit With (I'm sorry--I just cannot bring myself to capitalize the in the middle of the sentence...it looks moronic) and try to pass them off as their own? I bet it happens all the time.