It sounds like your comment would have been made more appropriately to this post (and if so, then your comment about other Rowan designers creating their own brands is superfluous: I had made that observation already). Regardless, your comment is confusing, and I wonder how much of this category you actually read. This series isn’t about the decision to create one’s own brand. I’m the first to tell you that many publishers and would-be publishers — certainly not all of them — will wring whatever value they can out of a designer without fair compensation. So defending a designer’s decision to sever ties with a publisher on that basis alone is entirely pointless here. And I wasn’t complaining about her hint about retiring from hand knit design; I believe I used the words “understandable decision”. I did also wonder why she had to do it on such a sour note; it’s a shame that her supporters (like you) feel a need to perpetuate that sentiment by taking such an aggressive, bitter stance.

Also, your comment smacks of pot calling kettle: most of the posts in this category aren’t about AS’s business dealings, but rather about her very public commentary and opinion on a competitor’s business. If she’s entitled to publicly lambaste someone else, why can I not report on and analyze her allegations?