r/BitchEatingCrafters

I embroider, and I love to get on here and see what fellow thread artists do. I also enjoy admiring crochet, felt pieces, stained glass etc. from other artists. However, it drives me absolutely nuts when people post their work in absolutely every subreddit related to their craft that they can. The hand embroidery subreddit is basically a copy and paste of the main embroidery group because people feel the urge to repost their heads off. This is the case for so many crafting communities on this app as well. I try going to different subreddits to see new work, not to see the same people reposting, its so annoying. No one cares about your exposure, pick a group, post it once, stop spamming us with reposts. Thank you.

Don‘t get me wrong. I like the simple yet effective way a serger can finish raw seams.

It’s nice, put together, beautiful even.

But notice that I didn’t mention it’s quick because it never is.

These lil fuckers are ALWAYS giving me trouble. It doesn’t matter the kind of machine: professional or domestic. This god forsaken cursed machine is always giving me headaches, specially the bottom looper. I don’t understand HOW it manages to get loose on the upper hole without breaking the thread or even getting loose anywhere else.

Yes, I’ve threaded it correctly all 19 times I’ve tried to make it work unsuccessfully.

Yes, my thread is new and high quality.

Yes, everything is aligned and the maintenance is updated.

It’s a patience game and I’m losing it.

Also: fuck you left needle, you’re always giving me trouble too.

I’m resorting to french seams and taking longer than usual just because I don’t want to deal with the temper tantrums my serger gives me everytime.

What is it with beginners who just raw dog a craft and asking people to identify what they’ve done? I see two flavors of this all the time and they both grind my gears. They either want to praised for coming up with the “right” way to do something all by themselves, or they want to be patted on the back for inventing something totally new. There is always room for creative interpretation, but you, a beginner knitter/crocheter/sewer did not brilliantly invent a useful new technique that hundreds or years of artisans haven’t already come up with.

I’m tired of people who know nothing about weaving or spinning selling unusable wheels and looms expecting brand new value to them

I see this so often like today I saw a vintage Ashford Traditional for sale on OfferUp, not only did this guy post it for “free” then say it wasn’t and he was looking for offers (every single item he listed was as “free” but expected offers and he even had a treadle sewing machine listed as a “sowing” machine which is another peeve of mine) but guys this poor fucking wheel was GOING THROUGH IT

It was severely water damaged, the wheel dealt with hella humidity so the wheel itself was stretched at the seams, the hooks on the flyer were rusted, it came with a rusted lazy Kate, etc

I messaged him asking the price and he wouldn’t give me one and was ADAMANT it was an “authentic antique” and goes for hundreds, when I tried to correct him that it wasn’t antique he went off on me like okay so you don’t know your stuff ima just dip

THIS GUY CONTINUED TO MESSAGE ME BECAUSE IM “WRONG” AND KNOW NOTHING AND ITS CLEARLY WORTH AT LEAST A FEW HUNDREDS sir kindly get fucked, a simple google search would show it’s an Ashford Traditional since they still make them and he’ll know it’s not worth shit in the condition he’s selling it in

And I see this ALL THE TIME, it’s annoying as hell, like I get pricing it a smidge higher so people haggle with you but this wasn’t that

And then you see all the shit people on Facebook posting wheels and looms for sale yet scamming people of their money and not delivering ANY wheel of loom at all and just dipping

Yall im tired of these dumb fucking scammers

It was a mostly crochet project with some finishing knitting touches. I apply for the project because it was a beautiful pattern and I have the yarn in my stash already.

First question: what is your social media handle and how many followers do you have? Your account must be public. The more followers you have, the better!

Now, I have no problems linking my socials, and I also have no problem with her seeing my past work, but the more followers the better? It just left a bad taste in my mouth. I understand that she wants the pattern to go viral, but I feel that follower count should not be the first thought that comes to mind. I value my privacy very much, and while I would have no problems sharing her content with my followers, it’s definitely not reaching over 50 people.

Thoughts from the bitcheatingcrafters? Am I being too crotchety?

I could SCREAM if I see one more post of the likes: here's a top sewn together in a factory. I want to knit this. I am a beginner. Please tell me how I can construct this to the point where I need a step by step guide 🥺🥺🥺

EITHER you are at the point in your knitting where you feel comfortable trying to create something without a pattern OR you AREN'T.

Don't ask strangers on the internet to do the work for you, do some research, look for free patterns that are similar to what you want, TRY stuff, fail, try again. Im getting angry when people who have done nothing are all out of ideas and too lazy/scared to try. Knit something else then.

Put in some EFFORT ffs

When patterns don't have any pictures of the item on a model, only on a mannequin, i don't trust them not to be crap :/ It's definitely more common in knitting and crochet patterns than sewing ones. And i know not everyone can afford a model or wants to model their own stuff yada yada. But i simply do not trust the fit! I'm sceptical as is when their only model is a size 6, but a bunch of plastic in the vague shape of a person? Nah. Hard pass.

I just saw a video of a pattern tester call for, wait for it, tabi socks. I love tabis, I love the weirdness, this isn’t about that. In the first place I would ask if there is even a need for tabi sock patterns in general? (I mean, you just split at the toe, it’s not rocket science.) But sure, maybe a complete beginner who has no idea, wants to knit socks. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. there are at least 2 pages worth of tabi sock patterns on ravelry right now. HOW different can your pattern be that you can justify selling it for money? (Not to mention probably multiple free versions exist already.)

This goes out for other items too btw

Man, it’s great to support pattern creators! It’s such a complicated skill set to have, I think they are wont to charge as much as they’d like. However. It’s so frustrating to be priced out of it. Eight dollars a pattern is a week worth of savings for me, or it’s a day’s worth of food! I make 10 dollars approximately a day. My grandma was a knitter, her sisters were crocheters. It was just a great skill to have back then, now it’s more of a luxury hobby. I really dislike that. We are being priced out of creating our own garments. Or just creating our own enjoyment!

Edit: just wanted to say, I do know how to get free patterns, and of course I know ravelry. I’ve knit many free patterns and am very grateful for them! They are so good. It’s just frustrating to not be able to knit fancy colorwork sweaters or a petite knit pattern. I know there are ways around it. I was just bitching about it, I guess. It does get me a bit miffed.

What the actual fuck? Like I thought Ranuculous was ridiculous but the Garment!? JFC! My flabbers are ghasted.

I was bored on my lunch so, as I am wont to do, I was cruising around on Rav and went to the "hot right now" pattern section to find this monstrosity of a yarn sink. It looks like what happens when you wear mother's good tree skirt as a cape when you're a child, except it is for adults.

It is a poncho on gear.

And why does it have tassels dragging on the ground. Are we a swiffer now?

Ugh, sorry this is just one of the weirdest things. And 2,600 yards, no less!

Editing to add: It does appear the Garment, nor those who make it, take themselves too seriously, unlike the Ran people (I am not looking up how to spell that again), which is a wonderful breath of air. It is still extra, and ridiculous, while yes, also being dramatic and whimsical.

A knitted garment possessed of the spirit of Liza Minelli, perhaps? I am still avoiding it and it makes me irrational. I do not know how I would react should I see one in the real world.

Sorry If this is like controversial or been posted before but I hate when people get all righteous about sharing paid patterns. Like if I’d loan a friend a book I’d loan a friend a pattern. It’s not stealing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"This person copied MY pattern of a pokemon so now I'm going to buy their pattern and copy it and make my own 😭"

Get a fucking GRIP on REALITY. It is a PLUSH POKEMON. There are only so many ways to make basic shapes. And it looks ugly as fuck in your puffy chenille yarn anyway.

I enjoy both of their channels on occasion, but watching them both in the same video is more than I can bear. Double the brown yarn, double the coffee gulping, double the "cozy". Plus them fawning over each other. Kill me now

I fucking hate it when fiber people insist that “wool allergies don’t exist!”

Their posts tend to go “You only think you’re allergic to wool because you’ve only encountered low-quality wool. But MY wool is the best wool ever, not scratchy at all, and if you just touched it, you’d realize that your wool allergy is fake. In fact, claiming to be allergic to it harms people with actual life-threatening allergies because it makes people not take allergy claims seriously!”

Like, do you listen to yourself? You do realize that you’re the one not taking allergies seriously, right? Do you have any medical training that would allow you to test someone’s allergies? More fundamentally, do you actually think that invalidating people’s experiences is going to suddenly make them want to buy your product? If someone doesn’t like wool, regardless of whether they’re ”actually” allergic or not, scolding them is not going to make them suddenly fall in love with wool and spend tons of money on your yarn.

Because that’s always what this shit comes down to. Somebody’s offended that people don’t want to buy wool from them, so they try to act all morally superior and shame people, despite the whole thing being so transparently profit-motivated.

And look, I almost always knit with wool or wool-blends, and non-superwash wool to boot. But when influencers or companies pull that shtick, I cannot hit the unsubscribe button fast enough. It’s infuriating. But what pisses me off the most is when they eventually back down to “Well, sure, some people are allergic to wool, but most aren’t so no one should say that they are!” No, you fucking said that wool allergies don’t exist, and also this new stance doesn’t make you any less of a dick!

So I'm going to start this off by saying I only embroider for myself to keep in the hoop and hang on the wall. I have never sold or gifted my embroidery to anyone.

A few month back I started embroidering a bird and obviously needed a reference photo. I googled "cardinal on a tree in winter" and used this real photo of this cardinal to embroider. I am not a good embroiderer by any means and it turned out wonky and horrible lol.

Anyways I posted the reference photo and my finished cardinal to an embroidery facebook group. I did not expect my post to be removed and then accused of copy right. I screenshotted the picture and posted the link to it as well so people could literally google the photo. I figure the photo artist would want me to link them.

Is what I did wrong? I mean I provided the link and everything. Some comments i saw on my/others post is you have to ask for permission to use a reference photo and if you don't have permission it is copy right.

I am confused by this because there are several people in this facebook group posting bugs/birds/animals they embroidered while not linking their reference photos??? so i guess if we don't link it we aren't stealing even if we are using references?

can y'all share your thoughts and opinions and let me know if i am wrong?

also every single embroidery I have done used a reference photo i just don't post all of my pieces so i guess no one knows.

(just found this sub and have so many opinions on crafts and art so I have been scrolling this sub continuously since i found it)

It's one thing when you can tell that the actor is faking the craft that the character supposedly can do. I get it, it's not a critical casting decision and you don't want to restrict out talent. I hate it, but I understand it.

It is a WHOLE OTHER THING when the craft project that they are working on does not make sense for their character.

My example: Mid Century Modern, the whole aesthetic is sophisticated, elegant, tasteful cisgender gays. Nathan Lane's character Bunny runs a bra boutique. His whole house and wardrobe are neutrals, a few navys and lush jewel tones, GOLD.

So tell me what sort of monstrosity Bunny is "knitting" that is stripes of bubblegum pink and mint? You're telling me that his catty bffs aren't going to read that ugly ass garment for filth? They for sure aren't letting an eyesore afghan hang around the couch.

Why does the prop department have to make the project so freaking ugly and frumpy?!?!?!

--I think bubblegum pink and mint definitely work for some projects, just not this character and this prop.--

For the love of god, pick up a book. I’m begging

You should know the difference between knit and purl, and between stockinette and garter, before you cast on a single stitch. I literally don’t understand how this happens

I know this is a common issue for new people but it's so annoying to see a million posts asking how many crochet/knit stitches they have or how many rows they have. And people always answer! Which is nice but I feel like it's just encouraging people to keep asking these questions and not learn for themselves how to count. I always just reply with a method to help them count

Most knitters I know both knit and crochet, but people who started with crochet generally seem very against learning how to knit. Why is that? It annoys to me to no end when I read comments with "is there a crochet pattern for this?" on Instagram posts of a knitted garment. I like to crochet too and I don't care what anyone's favourite craft is, but it just annoys me when people expect to have a crochet pattern made for a knit object. Sure you can make similar things but knit and crochet have different feel and application and that's okay.

Edit for clarification: idc what craft people do, I guess the question is more "why are crocheters asking knit designers to make crochet patterns instead of finding suitable alternatives for their craft, or accepting that some things are more suited for knitting instead of crochet?". That's my bec thanks for coming to my post.