Disturbing photo from sewing magazine

Over at Submitterator, TinChicken shares this family photo from the December 91/Jan 92 issue of Threads, a magazine "for people who love to sew." Ah, where to begin...
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Anonymous

I live northwest of Winnipeg; they seem like desirable garments to me.
Anonymous

The kid on the far left kinda looks like Candle Ja
Bennessy

“What happens when you take a family from a small town existence in the Witness Protection program…”

“Move them to New York City…”

“And give them their own reality show?

DELOCATED!
Anonymous

the two bottom ones look like they could be the start of a knitted old-school-style cyberman costume.
Syd

When your crying skinned hermaphrodite rotary-dial telephone rings, they are on the other line.

http://boingboing.net/2009/03/02/unusual-phone-offere.html
OforObscura

Leigh Bowery lives!
dpcIII

PS: The pie WAS good.
Brainspore

Ten bucks says that pie is made from the kidneys of a young couple whose car broke down along a remote country road.
- Zergonapal
  
  I would not take that bet.
gabrielm

They seem to have a wizard of OZ thing going on. I clearly see Dorthy, the tin man and the cowardly lion. However, the scare crow is a little hard to make out.

+ That knit pie looks almost real.
Anonymous

OMG…that is too creepy! although the pie looks really good.
Anonymous

Fetishwear for people who cannot afford latex.
Mark Dow

A brilliant knitter put a lot of time into this just for the yuks. I can’t stop.
Anonymous

http://youknitwhat.blogspot.com/
Felton

For some reason, it makes me think of Greek pantomime theater.
Anthony

There is something seriously disturbing about that picture.
- twotake
  
  The question is where to start with the disturbing images…
  
  Answer? On the left, with the klan-rally ski-mask. For those who’s hate knows no climate…
- Rich Keller
  
  And it’s that apron Mom is wearing.
Sciamachy

It’s the Knitted Slipknot!
- Anonymous
  
  OMG! THat’s the first thing I thought.
- Anonymous
  
  So Slipknit then?
jeblucas

Wizard of Oz the whole way. Tin Man, Dorothy, Leatherface, a Cenobite, and Braveheart. L. Frank Baum would be proud of this homage.
Anonymous

I believe this is what is referred to as “high-octane nightmare fuel”.
Victoria North

We are all laughing over here at the Threads offices that this was dug out of our archives. We revisited this one not too long ago in our Spot the Difference Game. You should check it out and see if you find the changes we made to the original.

http://www.threadsmagazine.com/games/spot-the-difference/39-p78
Anonymous

Did no one notice the resemblance to a Klan hood on the kid on the left? If it was supposed to be the Tin Man, they might have wanted to pick grey instead of white.
Anonymous

Have you seen/heard the work of Forcefield.

http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/forcefield.html

http://www.knitknit.net/issues.php?id=1&e=4

http://www.transmodernfestival.org/2009/category/browse-all-artists
(scroll down a little)
WhatWouldWilsonDoBlog

to edit the voice of wilson……….is to edit the voice of an angel!
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I didn’t have a problem with it, but people kept flagging it.
dpcIII

I was present at the creation of that image; we all certainly thought it was seriously funny at the time, and then shuddered in horror forever after. THAT’S our legacy!?! Well, so be it; applause accepted. Hard to understand how it made it through all the review steps we had, thoâ€¦

But what would YOU have done with those seriously crazy/amazing knitted creations? That they were creepy/funny was definitely NOT the first thing you’d think as you took them out of the box the first time (just the second thingâ€¦). Meg Swansen is a genius.
Anonymous

That could be be any creepier… especially the KKK/tin man looking thing in the left corner.
File this one under – Major Fail
ill lich

The family that knits ski-masks together. . . robs banks together. Good family fun all around!