Welcome to the bitesized BEC thread!
You have the freedom to indulge in BEC-style (b*tch eating crackers) vent comments in this thread. Naming examples is not required (gasp!) but majority of r/craftsnark rules still apply. Basically, don't be shitty and ruin the thread for others.
I saw a someone on Tik Tok comment about how this subreddit is "so scary"....please touch grass.
Why is it so dang hard to find suiting fabric in actual colors?! I've already sewn with navy and black and every shade of gray and the pinstriped variants thereof, and tbh everything feels downright drab these days. I don't even need 100% wool, although a majority percentage would be nice...just gimme something COLORFUL.
Somewhat related: I am soooo over winter and we haven't even hit the Solstice yet. š
Because 98% of it is sold to mens' suit makers? I haven't seen what I'd consider 'suiting' in 'exciting' colours since the 80s - I'm not counting the 'Chanel type' big tweeds here...
Consider heavy wool crepe?
Watching people open advents is boring. Tea, jam, yarn - all boring. Itās an activity that is only interesting to the person doing the opening.
Yarn is maybe slightly better, but only if they actually show in their vlogs what they're making with it! I have to agree that I get a little tired seeing mini skeins that are just going to disappear into somebody's stash immediately
When did reddit become the new google?
oh, you want real humans to answer you instead of an AI?
Don't you know AI is just 700 south asians in a trenchcoat?
(Engineer.ai)
How is Janelle from Rosery Aparrell still sowing so bad? Het thread colour doesn't match. The invisble zipper does not match. Her binding seams are very wonky.
Ok, fine, she is sowing for herslef (though she has been making tutorials and patterns for years), but she made kits with all white invisible zippers for different coloured fabrics.
My BEC is reading a knitwear designers substack about the time they got crabs (while I was eating breakfast this morning too š¤¢) We donāt need to share everything people
Omg I laughed so hard at that Substack
Tbf I usually like their content but just was not prepared for that one at 8AM haha
Totally fair!! š
It will never not twist my knickers that indie dyers get away with calling 80% merino/10% cashmere/10% nylon ācashmere DKā. I see you, Sewrella and EKF (Explorer Knits and Fibers).
Most of the "silk velvet" I come across is, like 20% silk, 80% rayon. At that point, I really don't care about the silk content, I'm just looking for something that isn't polyester and would just as soon not have a "silk" markup.
Silk Baron is The Place for mostly to 100% silk velvet. Used their products many a time for various projects, can't recommend them highly enough
I recently saw a commertial brand yarn called cashmere something. Fiber content 0% cashmere. I think that is illegal in EU.
people on fb who advertise 'wool blend' meaning 90% acrylic/10 % wool...
ekf?
Explorer Knits and Fibers! Iāll edit my comment.
Reviews of this 70's dress pattern: "the neck is quite high, so I lowered it"
Me: cool
(Neck is in fact so small I can't get it over my head without the back zipper in place.
Me also :surprised pikachu face:
I am fuming right now. A beginner knitter posted in the knitting sub asking why their stitch (garter) didnāt look like the stitches on the sweater (stockinette) pattern they were following. And people were telling them to start with a scarf, hat, mittens or a dishcloth since if they canāt identify the stitches yet they should not start with a sweater. Guys I started with a raglan cardigan and while making the collar i made garter stitch instead of ribbing because I couldnāt identify the stitches yet. I ended up cutting it up and picking up stitches to make a rib. This discouraging of newbie knitters to avoid starting with a sweater has to stop. I mean if they arenāt able to they will stop and realise they need to do something simpler but they can absolutely try since there exists so many knitters who started with a sweater as their first project.
I started with a scarf, and a really basic jumper can be made as approximately the same thing (rectangles) and vastly less boring.
In crochet, I just made the jumper (an Xmas one so I get to wear it again now - if you're going to make a really simple one, something like that in fun colours can be well suited).
That person also said they were a "fast learner". But if you can't identify on your own that you have made garter instead of stockinette, I fear making a sweater as your first project will just mean that you're going to turn to Reddit for help for every single little thing. If you're going to tackle a project like that, learning how to Google/Youtube your issues might be the first crucial step for a successful project.
Besides that, technique is going to change rapidly in the beginning, and the starting stitches may differ quite significantly from the last stitches. Doing a smaller and simpler project allows you to develop a rhythm without so much at stake as a whole sweaterās worth of yarn.
The trend where people are like ā10 years ago I almost tripped over a sewing machine lying dead and abandoned in the street. Itās very important that you pick this machine up, nurse it back to life, and learn to sew to build your Instagram pageā or whatever blech
My sweetie has curb-pick, restored, and passed on multiple machines. You mean to tell me he could be an Insta millionnairrre?
I would way rather buy 'belonged to my gran, recently tuned up, selling it bc I don't want a machine that doesn't have a computer'...
Oh gosh, right there with you. It's almost as bad as the "unfortunately I DO like" humblebrags.Ā
Post : "I know this is AI and I'm looking for something similar."
Top comment : "Just so you know, this is AI."
Please people, I beg you, learn how to read.
Not craft-related (but cooking-related, sort of) but I had a "jfc do you know how to read" moment just a few hours ago. The gist is a commenter asked like 10 times for proof that a certain organization was anti-lgbtq before accusing a youtuber of being anti-lgbtq, and this person replied three times when I last checked with some variation of "If she belongs to a homophobic church that means she's homophobic"
Like, my guy, the OP literally said he wanted proof that the organization was homophobic, not that the woman wasn't homophobic. And he wasn't doing it in an argumentative way, just a "everyone keeps saying this but I didn't see any proof, someone please point me to proof"
Like christ it's not that hard to just fucking read
apparently, it is that hard to read š«© or look š«© saw a video the other day on reels of someone who made a crochet weiner dog menorah with lit candles (all crochet), and half of the comments were asking if it was kosher/saying it wasnt kosher bc the shammash wasn't higher than the other candles (it was), and the other half were asking if it (a CROCHET menorah, with CROCHET LIGHTS) was usable. Ā are we deadass??Ā she responded to all of them saying that it's just a decoration.Ā
It's becoming a huge issue. Apparently it's tied to how children are taught to sight read in school, leading them to just gloss over words they don't know or assume they're different words based on the first letter. I've read an article or two about the issue, and heard from friends that are teachers in the US about it as well.
Basically, the people having this issue have a very low reading ability because of how they were taught, and it persists because it's never corrected.
Theyāre also not taught critical thinking and inference like they used to be.Ā
I used to have to do logic problems in school where you were given so much information and had to fill in the rest using deduction.Ā
These kids would suck at Clue.Ā
Can you even buy Clue? I live in Japan, so it's slightly different, but critical thinking is a huge issue. I went to buy a copy of Clue and discovered it's not even released in Japan.
I got that occasionally in /r/suggestmeabook when in the text I'll ask for my rec and then include "but not 'x' because I've read it already" and then get a dozen recommendations for x
Lmao that sub is something else. I could say I hate fantasy or go on a five paragraph rant about how much I think Mexican Gothic sucks and I'll still get recommendations for Piranesi or Mexican Gothic.
A lot of the recommendations aren't even that interesting, just the same five books making the rounds on TikTok at that particular point in time.
Oh man, I once asked for scifi romance recommendations that were basically "Mills and Boons set in space". Had a whole bunch of people recommending Gideon the Ninth. How do you misread my post (or perhaps even the book itself) that badly?
Ironic, in that particular sub.
Webs is annoying me. I need one more ball of yarn in their house yarn to finish a sweater and it's out of stock. So much of yarn is out of stock.Ā
!!! I, too, have a Webs complaint! Though, it's probably my fault for not realizing how big they are, inventory wise. I bought some yarn two weeks ago and thought: yay! Local to me! (I'm also in MA.) Should get it soonish! Nope! Yarn is shipping from Missouri. Which is *fine*, but, like. I would have made different shopping choices if I'd realized that.
I KNOW WHY!!! missouri quilt bought them! I wonder if they're moving everything there.Ā
yes and Love Crafts orders to the USA also ship from there. They bought Love Crafts also
I quit buying from them when they bought the company, and Love Crafts stuff started showing up. It was so, so nice before.
Well, that makes it way less random, at least! Thank you for solving that mystery. (Did I look into it all? Nope! I just sat in my annoyance!) I'm sorry that the yarn you need is out of stock, though *shakes impotent-baby-rage fists at the sky*
Itās been that way since they sold a few years ago. I miss the golden age of Webs :(
Even in the golden age of Webs they used to have inventory issues all the time. I had a number of orders just not processed because I ordered stuff the website said was in stock, but it turned out not to be. One time they just took my money and did nothing for a couple months until I emailed to ask if or when I would get my yarn and they refunded me but didn't reply to the email (weird).
I must have been one of the lucky ones, I never had that issue. I always dreamed of going up there for shopping spree but not anymore :(
It was a glorious experience. I would take the drive out from Boston once or twice a year and just spend hours poking around the giant room in the back and feeling all of the yarns I couldn't find elsewhere (even at my holy grail yarn store, r.i.p. Windsor Button). Follow it up with a stop for lunch and it was pretty much a perfect day trip.
Never made it up there either (devastating), but Wool & Co near Chicago is my idea of paradise: damn near every kind of yarn in every colorway imaginable, usually with better inventory management than Webs. If they ever close their in-person store there, I think I'll whither away.
Americans never listing their location and acting like everyone is is also American. Americans acting like they survived WW2 after Joanns shut down. American business never listing their location and making me sort through their entire website just to find out that I'll have to pay a small fortune for shipping and customs. Non-American businesses ensuring Americans get DDP shipping or covering their duties and ignoring every other country who has to pay for them.Ā
So annoying and arrogant. Every time I canāt find a location on a companyās IG account itās guaranteed to be an American company. I have to go to their website and dig through everything just to make sure. Iām so done with buying anything from the states, for so many reasons.
I have resorted to suggesting an Estonian shop whenever someone fails to mention where they are located. I just assume they are where I am. Just like they assume everyone is where they are.
Iām planning a vacation to Estonia soon, Iād love the name of that shop ! And I will definitely start suggesting French stuff too, what an excellent idea
I went to wool and woollen in Tallinn last fall when I was there and it was excellent. Got a free apple would recommend. The lady working when I was in spoke wonderful English which was great because I was there for the weekend and didn't know any Estonian.
I try to not be "that American" and ask where people are when they're asking questions about buying fabric or other habdashery. I can't just post my wiki up there and say go over here and look, but yeah I list shop locations where I can when asked.
Also the US paying tariffs is so new that most people who are in the US are very surprised and have no idea how it even works. But then again this particular administration isn't helping with the fuckers changing the percentages as much as they have.... And there are business who depend on those shoppers to make ends meet which was helped by deminimis.
But I'm seeing a backlash as there's more outside the US who now will not bother shipping here as a result.
I will not talk about the whole Joann situation....lol Thats a clusterfuck all by itself.
I have a friend who owns an online fabric business in Australia. She's lost up to 20 orders a week to the US due to tariffs - a significant chunk of her sales. Not only is it awful for the recipient, the bullshit the seller has to go through is nearly as bad. It's not just a flat tariff. They have to work out what country the fabric comes from first, then calculate the tariff. An order might have fabric from ten sources with five different applicable tariffs. It's such a nightmare for her (and she's not a beginner, has a business degree and knows what she's doing) that she just stopped shipping there in the short term.
Americans acting like DDP was invented for them. Welcome to the rest of the world that has been dealing with duties, VAT and customs charges for years.
Preach it.
If you don't do international shipping why do you even have a country dropdown and let me get 3/4 of the way through the checkout process before going "oh we only ship to freedom states"!
https://www.reddit.com/r/USdefaultism/
Totally hate to be that asshole but the internet was invented by the US military. (And yeah, I get that it is global now and I will most certainly be downvoted. š)
The flip side is that there are plenty of websites in Europe and other Whoosh speaking parts that also donāt note where they are and you donāt figure it out until you try to pay. Frustrating but oh well.
In any case, we can all hate on the stupidity of the current administration here with the tariff idiocy. So stupid.
Most other countries use a suffix to the web address that shows which country the website is based in. The US does not
You've been misinformed.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee would like to have a word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
Nope, youāll be downvoted because this has nothing to do with the conversation and we are all tired of USA exceptionalism.
And btw, the World Wide Web was invented by a British scientist working at CERN, go Tim Berners-Lee !!!
Don't get me started!
Add to that, American pattern designers who refuse to include metric measurements.
Or metric needle/hook sizes.
It's not like it's not printed on our hooks and needles, and our phones have a handful dandy conversion program (calculator) built in. It's laziness. I actuality prefer the metric system because it's easier to visualize than two and a quarter inches.
It's so easy to switch! I moved out of the US and just switched over to metric within a year with no problem. Once you start using it, you get used to it and you're fine.
Iām in the US and have this bizarre mishmash of units I think of things in. If itās small, millimeters. If itās big, feet. In between, sometimes inches, sometimes cm. Grams and pounds.
I grew up in the US and moved to Australia in the late 1970s. Fully metric here. Since taking up bag sewing, I have reverted somewhat to imperial measurements because that's what my rulers have on them.
I get it, and that's fair, but it DOES make me laugh that people accuse Americans of being lazy for not converting measurements, as if it's somehow NOT lazy for Europeans to not convert American measurements? Like I think as a courtesy if you're selling something online you should have metric and imperial, at least for stuff like this (with recipes you sometimes have to alter the recipe so the measurements aren't wonky, unless everything is by weight) but it's annoying to me that people will say it's lazy to not convert measurements but only if you're an American?
When there are only three countries that use just imperial, it's not worth their time. Most things have both imperial and metric on them. Baking with a scale is more accurate. I finally broke down and bought one in case I come across a recipe I want to try that is just metric.
If theyāre aimed at an American audience then itās not worth their time to convert it either. Like you have the same technology at your finger tips, just convert it if itās sooooo annoying.Ā
I was just ranting today how I find inch fractions very goofy and annoying. Iām Canadian, so Iām comfortable with inches and cm, but ā3/8 of an inchā is just silly to me compared to 1cm.
Iām Canadian and grew up sewing with inch fractions, and tbh I prefer using imperial over metric when sewing. Iāve been sewing 5/8ā seam allowances for over 60 years now. Maybe thatās my problemā¦Iām old!
Oh I definitely think itās generational! My 65yo mom is much more comfortable with Fahrenheit temperatures than I am, because she grew up with them.
As an American: I wish to gods we would just switch to metric already. Especially for needle sizes! Enough with the random arbritary crap! I want my numbers to MEAN SOMETHING. And be consistent!
I am also American and I draft all my patterns using metric units. The metric system is so much better for things like pattern drafting. Unfortunately, it's hard to find high quality metric rulers beyond a straight ruler, so I have to settle for floppy metric curved rulers. We need to switch to the metric system yesterday and that is a hill I'm willing to die on
Stephen West released a hat pattern (which I like) that he describes as a "one skein wonder". He then goes on to say that you knit it with DK weight yarn held double with mohair. Sir, that's two skeins. I need two skeins of yarn to knit your one skein wonder hat.
That's goddamn hilarious.
I am so sick of so many new patterns being with yarn held double. If that makes me an old, I'll go yell at some kids to get off my lawn.Ā
I wish there was a functional ravelry filter for the yarn held double. I have a cardigan's worth of mohair and I was looking for lightweight cardis but all the mohair filter returns is all the cardis that hold mohair along with something else
There's a "yarn held together" filter in the advanced search and an option for "single strand only". It usually works well for me
Thanks, I'll go digging!
I was looking at a pattern yesterday that had 2 fingering weight yarns held double for colour mixing reasons, which is an interesting choice, but they called it worsted weight. Gauge was correct for DK, so I dunno, man.
Agreed, Just buy the grist you need, already.
Rebecca Clow made a tiktok about the arrogance of people who purposefully twist their stitches and while I agree with her points, I hated the tone she used so much that it kind of put me off from her ngl. like yes, people who twist their stitches are doing the craft wrong but if someone says they want to twist their stitches for THEIR personal garment that THEY are making and they know the consequences, who cares?? let them have their ill-fitting, stiff garment.
All the discourse about twisted stitches just makes me want to start doing it out of spite.
My most controversial comment, twisted stitches are truly serious business.
oh dude, once i told a beginner who twisted their stitches that itās not wrong to like a sweater they made even tho it had twisted stitches. never said that it wasnāt important to know the difference, bla bla bla, i just said that theyāre allowed to still like their FO and shouldnāt be discouraged. downvoted into oblivion for that one
People act WILD about this, it's crazy.
There are no winners in this one. Yes, she's right about lace and cables not working, and also if anyone out there is calling themselves a "twisted stitch girlie" that's heinous, BUT, the "you're just wrong" is not a good way in to this observation.
There's a literal "twisted stitch girlie" like that who's regularly at knit nights my local yarn shop, and she gets angry when she asks for help with cables/lace/brioche/etc and everyone points out her stitches that are "a featural element"... So she just gets no help anymore LMAOĀ
Yeah, I've met older knitters at meetups who have been merrily knitting nothing but garter stitch scarves for longer than I've been alive. Every stitch is twisted, and they don't care. The odds of them ever trying anything more complicated are low at this point, so it doesn't matter.Ā
And also like, part of craft is experimentation. Let people knit how they want to.
Experimentation would suggest you do it on purpose to see if you like the effect.
Of course, people should knit how they want to. But there's also beauty in learning skills the proper way. Why? Because there's a technical, fit and fabric related reason knitting is done like it's done. Not twisting your stitches is not just about the aesthetics.
My BEC is that I finished the Snow Sweater, and I really really really want it to snow so I can get super aesthetic project pictures, but I live in the PNW and, am I stupid? It snowed once last year. The picture I have of the sweater doesn't do it justice. I did 3 colour colourwork, man.
Glad to see another Pernille Larson fan out there. I have knitted 3 of her patterns so far and I am always amazed with the details to shaping. If I have a vision for a sweater I will first go to her ravelry to see if she has a similar sweater. I understand the frustration of not having the perfect background for the photos. I am knitting my Christmas jumper and I hope for a sunny day to grab some nice photosš¤š½
Same!! I love how clear and concise her patterns are!
It was a great pattern! A whole bunch of people who made it have notes on how they didn't do it as written with the sleeves knit bottom up and grafted. For me, that was a really well-thought out part, though. It was way easier to do the colourwork keeping nice tension on sleeves that were on their own in the round, rather than with the whole sweater attached. Plus, the snowflakes look way better with the Vs pointing down.
Ohh thatās a nice detail. I am making an all over colorwork jumper and I so wish I did the sleeves separately and grafted them later. Managing the whole body of the jumper and 5 different balls of yarn and working on a small circumference on a magic loop is turning out to be a bit of trouble. And to think I have to do it again for the second sleeve š¤
I live in eastern Canada, and wear sweaters from October-April, and don't really have a lot of sympathy for this, as I'm always cold and wearing 3 layers of thrifted/handmade wool stuff...
OMG, we have 2-3 feet of snow here. I am in long underwear and sweaters 100% of the time.
I moved from Eastern Canada to the PNW. And Iād take some cold weather in place of the long, dreary dankness
I wear sweaters all the time! This is about precipitation, not temperature! If I had made this sweater when I lived in Calgary, odds are it would not have snowed in December either.
Oof I feel you on the snow. I also live in the PNW and praying for snow. These floods and atmospheric rivers are scary.
Here's hoping we get snow in the near future and you can get some great photos.
I just started the Halibut Cardigan and the chart is SO bad, yāall. Like, literally so low resolution that you canāt even read the row numbers no matter how far you zoom in. Not to mention that the repeat section is āhighlightedā in a red box thatās barely visible. Multiple people on Ravelry have brought it up and the response so far is crickets.
I have 20/20 vision and even I can just barely make it work - IMO this pattern would be completely inaccessible for someone with even mildly impaired vision. Not cool, Caitlin.
I would say that this is the kind of shit that testers are for, but IMO this should have been noticed even before then. All of the other charts I own from CH are crystal clear so I have no idea what happened with this one.
Interesting. I'm knitting it right now and my chart is sharp and clear.
ETA: not trying to argue with your frustration. Just genuinely curious about what happened?
I had this happen with one of the pattern downloads. I emailed the contact on the pattern and was sent a readable pdf. Something happens with the download š¤·āāļø
Which is wild! Because I've bought all kinds of charted patterns from Ravelry (knit and crochet) and have only had issues with the Halibut and one other pattern ššš
Probably because the file itself is the problem, meaning the issue was likely present when the file was uploaded to the Ravelry database.
Awenydd Yarn and Fibres held a pre-order for Halloween advents that did not ship until December, two months after the promised date. Ā She has cited some vague health issues and a row with her flatmate as catalysts for this delay. Ā She has grudgingly begun to issue refunds, but is scamming people in the process if theyāve paid with foreign currency. Ā Sheās a cancelled dyer so craftsnarkers are likely not affected here, particularly as she only dyes intermittently when sheās low on funds. Ā
Online stores, if a color is out of stock, please put an X over it or something, rather than graying the color out. I would like to be able to see your full range of colors and donāt want to click each out-of-stock shade to tell what color itās supposed to be.
There is a yarn store in my town that posts every shade of a yarn on their website, all in full colour. They usually have very few colours in stock. You have to scroll all the way down to see if they have the colour in stock that you selcted. Imagine that with Rowan kidsilk haze or Filcolana Arwetta that have so many olours. The pictures are in two columns, it is very annoying.
Knitting Loft in Toronto is the worst for this kind of thing. Their yarn pictures are really small to start with, and then when stuff is out of stock the picture is greyed out with a grey X over it.
I nearly always have to go to another website to check the colour, and if I am there, welp, might as well just buy from there instead.
EweKnit on Bloor is pretty bad for stuff like that. I order three skeins of wool for a specific project, and they sent me two because thatās all they had left! So what good is that? They couldnāt even be bothered to contact me to ask if I still wanted the two. What a waste of my money and time. I contacted them to complain and they never responded. I stopped shopping there.
Ahaha I was about to mention Knitting Loft too - I need a third skein of something and I CANNOT find the colour for the life of me on their site (even though in theory they should have it)
Art of Yarn in Kelowna carries a lot of the same yarns and they have good pictures and fairly decent customer service.
Ooooo I never knew! Thank you!
also please add an option so I'm only looking at the stuff I can buy NOW...
Newbies being especially frustrating to experienced knitters has been covered extensively on the BEC sub recently, but I swear some people are just waiting with bated breath to jump down the throat of anyone who twists their stitches. It almost feels like people who leave twistfaq comments are waiting for OP to crash out so they have a target to downvote and/or tease.
This BEC is not meant to defend unruly new knitters, but the glee is equally obnoxious.
Yeah, I feel like most of the people who are twisting their stitches are pretty receptive to feedback? For every person who reacts defensively, I see a dozen who go, āOh I didnāt know that, thanks for telling me!ā
And honestly, when there are 35 comments all telling them the same thing, I can understand where some of the defensiveness comes from. I get that sometimes you just comment at the same time as others, but thereās no need to be the 35th person to tell OP that theyāre twisting their stitches when you have nothing new to add. I totally get how that comes across as hostile to new knitters.
I have only encountered one person in the time i am following knitting subs defending their twisted stitches and that became a whole thing on advanced knitting sub and the mods had to change the rules. Everyone else as far as I have seen have been positively receptive to the feedback. I really donāt understand the narrative of newbies defending their twisted stitches.
I think itās always kind to gently point out twisted stitches so the person can correct their technique, but thereās no need to brigade them or otherwise act bitchy about it. Weāve all been beginners who make mistakes. I twisted my purls for a looooong time myself!
People are so disproportionately het up about twisted stitches.
Yeh there is definitely some enthusiastic moral superiority sometimes.
Enthusiastic moral superiority! In Reddit crafting subs! How could you say such a thing!
I decided just yesterday that I want to make a pair of Christmas socks, and I ordered the yarn from Knit Picks to ensure it's fast and affordable, as I needed 6 colors. I agonized over the color selections for over an hour, because I'm an indecisive bitch. Finally placed my order and got the shipping notification this morning. One color is out of stock and was not shipped. I can either try to find a more expensive substitute locally or place another order when the color is back in stock, but I'll have to pay shipping again and will most definitely not have them done by Christmas. I know it's my fault for not planning ahead, but the website said it was in stock when I ordered. Get a better inventory system, Knit Picks!
They're owned by private equity now, so I would just expect a slow slide into shittier and shittier products, website, and support until they go bust. It's a shame.
Wait what? Why are you saying it's your fault? They did not provide you with accurate information.
You know if your thing is good enough to gift more than I do.
I think the folks who have overtaken the BEC sub have started to infiltrate the FACJ sub and don't understand how that sub works. The increase in unjerk responses recently is ruining the fun. Edit: grammar.
Iām still not sure how or why that sub absolutely exploded overnight!
Hello! BEC mod here! If you're talking about BEC getting bigger super quickly, it was because of a recent Harry Potter related post
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Babaa is a spanish brand that mostly sells super oversized (if you're not plus sized, because they're one sized fits all) ethically sourced minimalist wool sweaters, often undyed and neutral colored. Very aesthetic, very trend. They cost damn near $400, so tons of girlies want to make their own. Basically, they just want to make an ozetta or petiteknit pattern lol.
You could just Google it š itās a brand that sells high end ethically produced knitwear
Vlogmas is boring.
Just in general and not even craft-related. Oh boy. 25 days of someone rambling for half an hour.
Coooooooooooool
Where's the drama? No one is spectacularly flaming out any more. But don't worry, it's nearly "everything I knit in 2025" season.
I actually love the "everything I knit in [year]" videos, especially if they talk about how the yarn has worn, why they wear or don't wear a specific piece a lot, etc.
I watched a heap of them last year, because I started off enjoying some of these things, too. But then I noticed some hilarious trends, which caused me to make a related drinking game.
HEY!!!!!
NAL, but I'm pretty sure you are legally obligated to name the hilarious trends.
Thread: https://redd.it/1hn3pd9
I am looking forward to doing an update at the end of the month.
Thank you! The "complains about yarn, makes more stuff in that yarn" is uncomfortable relatable š stick with the devil you know...Ā
Every time I wind a skein of Madtosh that was definitely skeined by a cat with the zoomies, I vow I will NEVER use it again.
But.
Soft.
So I only buy my Madtosh from Wool and Co now, where ball winding is always free even if you order online. It's my LYS and no skein of Madtosh leaves without being wound by them.
Lol, "skeined by a cat with the zoomies". What a good hack!Ā
There are a couple of youtubers who have really encouraged me to try different yarns, and I appreciate it! Not everything is a hit, but I am shocked at how much I love my Sophie Hood made in Isager Soft. I never would have picked the pattern or that yarn without seeing someone who made it talk about it.
Now I have a full-on Isager obsession, which is a little expensive.
I need some joy today. Can you share your drinking game and a few creators? I don't generally watch knitting YouTube.
Thread: https://redd.it/1hn3pd9
Required viewing was NeKnits, Those Twins Who Knit, as much of NoraKnits as you can stand, and by that point the algo will be giviing you stuff.
Thanks!
I agree, do we really need to see someone make their coffee each morning! I stopped watching them last week!
Blackbird fabrics bestie bag - the original pattern and the āminiā sized expansion pack. $9 for the original pattern, and the expansion another $4.50 - just for the pattern piecesā¦ they say the instructions are not included in the expansion. Can we not have just done all three sizes in one pattern.
My favourite thing is that they released that pattern and then didnāt release a second one for SEVEN MONTHS
This is foolishness - it's not like it's a super original pattern either...
If I have to see another YT thumbnail with Molly from a Homespun House artfully putting food into her open mouth Iām going to lose my mind.
Her and her husband give odd such a weird vibe.Ā I remember years ago, she didn't let her kids eat sugar, at all, even at a birthday party. It was so weird.Ā
Sheās my BEC.
I find her pronunciation of English weird / exaggerated, loathe her for giving up multiple pets, and think sheās kinda a pick me. I donāt understand how her and her husband own multiple properties off running a yarn company š¤·āāļø
Also, how she forgets words in english.Ā It's so weird.Ā The pet thing was my breaking point, the whole move was so weird. Does anyone know why they moved to America and back to Germany that fast? It was what, 2 years?Ā
1000%... I genuinely forget English words sometimes if I've been functioning in another language all day or I'm very tired, but there's something SO off about how she acts when it happens. š
It's giving Alec Baldwins wife not knowing words.Ā
How do you know they own multiple properties?
Also, I imagine quite a lot on her money is generated through her Patreon, which is not cheap.
Agree one hundred percent about the pronunciation. Itās so pretentious!
She openly talks about multiple properties & renovations, so I assume they own as itās uncommon to renovate a rental.
In Germany where she lives itās not uncommon to renovate a rental. For example, most rentals come without kitchens, so they need to be installed by the renter. That said, she might own them - I donāt watch her often enough to know details.
Thatās interesting & I didnāt know that. Thank you for giving some insight!
I have wondered that too! I am also sick of seeing her yarn advent for this year being opened by podcasters during vlogmas, all of which she sent them for free!Ā If it is isnt her free gifted advent, it is Green Lambkins free gifted advent, as she too, seems to have sent them to various podcasters doing vlogmas!
Interesting!! I donāt watch many knitting podcasts / vlogs these days so havenāt seen the gifted advents, but Iām not surprised.
I feel like A Homespun House used to get a lot more traction, but I never see her brand in local yarn shops or ones I pop into when traveling and rarely hear anyone talk about the brand. Thatās part of why I find it fascinating that she & her family somehow make ends meet seemingly just off the yarn sales.
She has a popular patreon, which I suspect makes more money for her than yarn sales.
Just tuned in to watch FibreBound's latest Vlogmas, and guess what she has just received in the post!? .... a free Homespun House Advent from Molly! Seriously how many free Advents has that crazy woman sent out!? This one is a mixture of non sparkle and sparkle minis, so obviously just a mix of unsold minis that Molly has thrown together to create this Advent!
OMG Nitty Natty has just received a free advent from Molly too! They are literally all over the internet!!!!
The podcasters who she has sent a free advent to, all never seem to use her yarn throughout the year, which does make her look desperate to get people talking about her yarn during the Vlogmas season!Ā I, personally, would never buy her yarn again as her customer service is shocking and her bases on Ravelry and the yarn labels dont seem to match up!
What, you donāt like hearing about her PROH-jecks?!
In todays video, she said IKEA in the weirdest way. It drove me crazy for a good ten minutes actually.
Like the true German she is, right šš
Or her cup-o-chino? So much eye rolling at her affected pronunciation! It sounds so put-on.
What's wrong with that pronunciation?
Sheās from Michigan or something.. there is literally no need to say it like that like sheās some posh European š
I thought she lived in Germany? So it would make sense if you're surrounded by people who pronounce it differently. lol posh European. It's just the non-American way of pronouncing it.
Eh, sheās done the weird pronunciations since day 1. Loooooong before she moved to Germany.
Yeah, but she is American. Itās not that deep.
Knitting pattern designers who open a testing call to the public but only choose content creators in the end-- if you wanted the promotion, then why wouldn't you request for other CCs upfront in the application? Dishonest and incredibly annoying to waste people's time like this!!Ā
I agree, it seems they want testers who can show and talk about the test knits on youtube.Ā They also love people with many instagram followers and who post pretty photos!
Fabric Wholesale Direct couldnāt deliver the elastic or the fusible interfacing from my recent order and refunded me. Already annoying, now I have to pay $10 in shipping a second time because they canāt manage their inventory correctly, but they also refunded the wrong elastic of the two I orderedāthey refunded the cheaper one which was actually delivered, but the more expensive one was missing.
Yes, the difference between the elastics is under $5. Yes, I am still going to write an irritated email to customer service complaining about it. Yes, Iām also going to complain about having to pay for shipping twice. Itās not about the money, $15 isnāt going to make or break my budget this month, but itās about the principle of having to pay $15 because they screwed up my order!
Sewist with decent following on instagram (around 5,000) repeatedly asking people who have bought patterns and/or in the testing group to email them copies of the patterns.
Wait, what? Did they lose their hard drive, or are they being some kind of copyright agent provocateur?Ā
I assume they just want the patterns for free - they often also post about needing money. In the case of asking people in the tester group, they said they couldnāt wait until the pattern was released to make it.
Ohhhh, ok, rereading your comment, that makes sense. I thought you meant this was the original author, notorious for asking people to send them copies of their own patterns.Ā
Woah.Ā