I absolutely HATE😡 how scrolling📜 on Ravelry all the top🔝 popular patterns are all boring shades of gray and beige!! No frills sweater👕? Grey. Ranunculus? Grey. Step by step sweater👚? Beige AND grey. The weekender? Also grey! The entire personality of petiteknit? ALL BEIGE AND GREY!!!😠😡😾

WHWRE IS ALL THE COLOUR🎨? WHy do all these knitters hate colours🌈?? Where is all the fun💃? DO THEY HATE HAVEING FUN AND EXPRESSING YOURSELF??🫵😖

I don't want to see all this depressing lack of colour on my Ravelry📵 feed. I don't want to knit 20 sweaters that are all 20 different shades of absolute garbage🚮🦝.

AND DONT✋🚫 TELL ME I CAN JUST KNIT THEM IN WHATEVER COLOUR I WANT. I will NOT be doing that🙅‍♂️👎🙂‍↔️🚫🚫

I only knit patterns in the ORIGINAL COLOURWAY as the creator intended and ABSOLUTELY NO OTHER WAY I REFUSE to even LISTEN TO THST OPTION 🫸🙉🙉

In general, people who knit are super antagonist to anyone who tries to engage with them. I saw people complain about being asked what they’re working on because they “don’t follow patterns and it’s all free form.” Why are you acting all brooding and tortured over knitting lmfao. Do you think you're Heathcliff stomping across the moor in an emo snit? You're all so rude and exhausting. Go p9tbl and stop being elitist cows looking down on my boob-butt bees. And take this premium acrylic and shove it into your center pull.

Didn’t anyone teach you not to look a gift horse in the mouth??? All these whiny young crafters read into everything WAY too much, you’re TOO SENSITIVE!!! Especially the snobby, holier-than-thou kn*tters. We should all, as a community, just learn to take every comment at face value. You’re trying to tell me there’s a wrong way to give someone a compliment?? Even a backhanded compliment is still a compliment! Some people weren’t negged enough in their developmental years, and it shows. They could have said “wow I can’t believe you spent so long doing something as lame as knitting/crocheting/sewing that there’s now a tangible object in front of me”, or “oh hey your hobby that I look down on and don’t take seriously might actually have some value now that it benefits me”. The sheer audacity of expecting someone to THINK before SPEAKING is unbelievable.

So you guys make projects that are too ugly, I don’t like them please stop. This is very serious. You’re ruining the craft.

EDIT 1: I don’t even own internet can you stop harassing me about social media

EDIT 2: I’m an artist so I’m better than you

EDIT 3: I’m allowed to complain teehee ;)

i only started crocheating next week and i can't tell you how disgusting this community has become since i started.

i started *before* chrocheting was trendy. I can't even enjoy my own crotch eating anymore because I am so obsessed with everyone else's hideous work.

why doesn't anyone do anything original anymore?! i swear if i see another emotional support potato or chenille bee i am going to gougge my own eyes out with my prym hook (I bought it first)

where is the creativity? the originality?

everyone is crotcheating the exact same way and I am so tired of it!! someone please put a little effort into it for once so i can finally feel satisfied.

classism and sexism used to - and still does - say, "a woman is only as good as the back of her stitching is tidy."

your grandmother muttered it under her breath as she eyed unworthy donations to the church bazaar. she was a victim of misogyny who became its greatest collaborator.

your female boss who raised the ladder up behind her and waves to you through the glass ceiling that has become her glass floor - she whispers this as she watches you inefficiently windex the exterior of her crystalline tower. she ate from the hand of the men in charge, and tenderly licks it still.

your patriarchal overlords want you to tie your worth to a tidy back.

they want to PIN STITCH you down.

they want to keep you from entering a cycle of increasing independence before that LOOP STARTS.

they don't want you TO TRAVEL.

they want you to be a good little girl. to swallow that confetti and say only "thank you sir may i have another."

not today.

today i will be my truest self - perhaps messy, maybe wasteful, even something that could make my fellows recoil in shock. but i will be real, unencumbered by antiquated societal expectations, released from the chains of floss that have so long tied me to an unrealistic ideal.

i am woman. hear me roar as i snap my needle pushing through seven layers of criss-crossing thread, finally breaking through to realize my potential.

It's a wedding gift for a couple who are too dumb to take care of real fiber. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I am a man.

Sometimes I, a man, make things, and then I don't like them - I find this demotivating. And as a man, I need motivation to make things.

I like making things for the holidays, because I'm a man who makes things. And soon, I, a man, will be making something for my sisters birthday.

Do you have suggestions for other things that I can make using my man hands? 💪

My mom taught me the basics of knitting when I was younger, I’m now in my later 30’s, but it was never a “cool” thing to do for a woman (since historically only MEN were allowed to join highly exclusive knitting guilds which means ZERO women knitted domestically or contributed to fibre arts as a whole at any point in history ever). I now travel constantly and ran through enough hobbies (Star Wars Lego sets, smashing my jaw with a hammer, ketamine) to pick it back up and find air travel and hotels immediately easier to deal with while knitting. I made a few little tea towels and dish towels to get back into it, and naturally decided a 40’x60’ large throw blanket with bobbles and cables and colourwork depicting all my memories from early childhood through today (see pic for current progress) was clearly the first big step to take. I just wanted to share my progress with people who APPRECIATE it other than my mother and waifu who also likes sewing crafts.

photo: remarkably clear and crisp well lit photo of stockingette fabric with twisted stitches every other row

Sometimes you just need a little release in over the lazy weekend without turning it into a whole production with the chains and the WIPs and the raw-edge applique. Chickenbear provides for those who jerk! Join us here every Saturday for a little drive-by circlejerking about your fellow fiber artists (derogatory).

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As usual, raise your hand if you were personally victimized by Stephen West's existence.

This is a safe space, ladies. We know you don't hate him because you're a latent homophobe and/or you get off on playing purity politics and/or you have completely rotted your brain with your unending chronic onlineism.

We know your deep loathing that can barely be contained within your mortal coil is truly and genuinely because he makes shawls you think are garish is just so loud and bold and obnoxious SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER!!!!!! That he didn't know better obviously means HE AGREES with those rightwing podcasters who would love to see him and his business partner dead.

Here's the bottom line: Stephen West is taking up space in this field that DOESN'T BELONG TO HIM and HE KNOWS IT and HE DESERVES TO SUFFER FOR IT.

It is known that every few years the Quirky Girls need a new animal to bear as their sigil. In the early 2010s they bore the banner of the venerable owl. In the late 2010s foxes were having a moment. In the early 2020s they were crocheting frogs. Now the reign of the fish sweater has continued for at least two or three years, which means salmon and cod motifs must be minutes away from becoming uncool. So I ask you, which animal will take their place in the late 2020s to allow Quirky Crafty Girls to display their totally out-there uniqueness to the world?

Fuck this. Fuck you. Fuck it. I spent so much money on this craft and I can’t do it. It’s horrible. I don’t care about learning how to use the equipment and what the different methods are.

I can’t do it. But also give me karma because that’s why I’m here posting about it to begin with.

I usually watch TV while knitting, but now I’ve watched every single show in existence and can’t possibly watch anything else ever again.

I was wondering what everyone else does to distract themselves from this godawful boring hobby that we do not enjoy a single moment of??? Please help me I fucking hate knitting

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Hi, posting here because I've read that you all are experts in crotcheating and would love to get some feedback on my "friend's" behavior. A few months ago, my "friend" crotched an elaborate blanket for me and my partner's 10 year wedding anniversary. We thought it was a lovely and thoughtful gift at the time, and she told us she designed it herself specifically for us. It has all these unique motifs representing our marriage, like flowers and hearts.

But the other day she reached out to us saying she wanted to sell the design and asked us for our input on a name. We were shocked. All of our friends know that we're averse to basic, commonplace gifts. From what I gather, anyone would then be able to crochét our special wedding anniversary blanket, making our unique present the equivalent of a Wal-Mart mass produced product. Even worse, I'm pretty sure making profit off a gifted item is a violation of copyright, which we must hold since we are the owners of the blanket. We've consulted with ClaudeAI about this and based off our chats we're quite certain this is not just bad etiquette—it's illegal. But what do you guys think? Should we go ahead and call the yarn police?

It's so unfair that it's just, like, okay -- even expected! -- for designers to bait-and-switch their fellow handcrafters by saying their patterns are free and then sending them to a website chock full of ads.

It's not a FREE pattern if I have to:

• See ads
• Scroll past ads
• Click to close ads
• Read anything that isn't a pattern before getting to the pattern

And don't you dare suggest that I use:

• Ad blocker extensions or browsers
• Reading mode
• My computer's copy/paste function in conjunction with a text/notepad app
• Print to PDF/screenshots

The only truly free pattern is the one where I get just the clean, well-formatted pattern PDF with no ads for $0 and no email signups and no prompts to buy the paid PDF and no effort of any kind on my part.

I think creators deserve to be paid for their work or whatever, but I wish they remembered that we don’t have to be either the consumer or the product -- there is a third way that capitalism wants us to forget where people just genuinely share things with me for free, to everyone’s benefit.

spent the morning valiantly fighting the good fight against the crotchetaganda. does anybody know any good support groups for detoxing from crocheters insisting they are special and can singlehandledly absolve their craft of its sins against fiber art? I saw a hexagon cardigan on the bus this morning and im still trying to stop shaking…

anyway im here in my step by step sweater thanking god for knitting for olive heavy merino. And to the crocheters out there: Eat my drape.

- making more than one item per season is criminal and abnormal. ONE COASTER PER PERSON PER YEAR IS GOD'S PLAN

- crotcheting is fugly and you are fugly

- your soul is full of factory knots

- your vast tracts of yarn mean you hate the planet and every living thing on it, especially baby capybaras

- you suck

- you're doing it ALL WRONG

- you're so very lucky I'm sharing my unfiltered unhinged opinions with you frucking granny-square-munchers

Edit: why are you all such mean bitches? I'm just jumping on the YewTew TrickerTrocker trends and giving you my unpopular opinions even though I have like 3 followers and two of them are my mom so you DNGAF what I think