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Exhausted by “diamond artists.” My local crafting Facebook group is overrun by them, especially people selling completed diamond paintings.

I’m gonna be nice to you when I say this. Nobody wants to buy it. You are sticking plastic gems from China using toxic glue on an image that was made and designed by someone else. The image is also almost kinda ugly and cartoonish.

The amount of waste generated by such an activity? Astronomical. All of these tiny pieces of plastic rotting in a landfill. At least painting by numbers allows you to use different techniques to fill in the colors. Diamond painting is literally just sticking plastic crap on more plastic crap. And to try to profit off of it and sell it? Give me a break.

Uh oh. Here comes the “let people enjoy things” crowd. Actually, I can’t. And I won’t. You can enjoy whatever you want, and I can be a hater about it. Sorry.

Look, I'm just doing my job as a lieutenant in the Crafting Police. Stop using colors I don't like and that do not bear the CP Seal of Approval and Correctness.

Why is hand-dyed yarn so extremely fugly most of the time?

I have, without exaggeration, maybe seen one or two hand-dyed multicolor skeins of yarn that aren’t making my eyes bleed. I think hand-dyed yarn can be really beautiful in rich solids, but so much of the multicolored work is so hideous to me. It looks like they miss dying certain patches and it comes out uneven. It’s so expensive, and there’s so much of it out there, so clearly I’m the odd one out. But truly every time I see some hand-dyed monstrosity I just sigh to myself. And some crafters get so on their high horse. “Made with yarn I dyed myself!” Yeah, babe. We can tell. It looks terrible.

i recently assembled my gf's juki sewing machine based on some youtube videos and have a few leftover parts that came with it. i have a couple of leftover parts of the sewing machine and want to check if any of them are critical before she starts sewing with it.

https://preview.redd.it/nadbr2nn1a6h1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=cdbe888713e472be5ce86ca415c10668fb12716f

But I've only been crocheting for 5 minutes so my stitches are a bit rubbish. Don't mention it or else I'll cry

I want to make a large afghan throw blanket but I'm having trouble finding a pattern, possibly because I have vague expectations and still will reject any logical or helpful suggestions.

I have been looking for quite a while now and tried 13 different patterns but I didn't like any of them either they take up way too much yarn they have too many holes for toes to snag or its way too complex to repeat 40 times. I need a patten that doesn't use a lot of yarn and also doesn't have a lot of holes. I am still pretty new at crochet so this is honestly a little ambitious and overconfident but I need to make this blanket before June 28th for a gift. I can totally do it, right? Today is June 8.

I need a free pattern for a Afghan block or granny square that is a 9x9 squares or bigger because I don't want to make 150 squares. Most patterns I have found were 12x12 squares. I'm not going to specify whether I mean 9 blocks by 9 blocks or 9 inches by 9 inches. I want at least a few colors at least 3 at most 5. But I'm not going to tell you what colors I like. Does anyone know of a pattern like this ? That had colors but also squares?

I'm also not going to specify design preferences or preferred style or really anything but the vaguest parameters. But it will still be your fault if you suggest something I hate.

I’m just a beginner sewist 🪡🧵and I’m an absolute savant and genius 👩‍🏫. I think I can make a met gala gown by hand in two weeks since that’s about what it’s taken me when I built a rocket ship 🚀 , cured cancer 👩‍🔬, solved renewable energy ⚡️, and other super brilliant things!

So give me resources and information so I can do a super structured and sumptuous ballgown 👗 by hand in the same amount of time.

Also none of this is advanced sewing, I’m pretty sure it’s intermediate at most 🤷‍♀️

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I’m so sick of people insisting on earning a fair wage for their extremely skilled and specialized labor. Everyone is broke, okay sweaty? Just make whatever people want, let them name their price, and be grateful if you break even* on materials!

*Edit: changed an autocarrot

My prom dress is 4 sizes too small, but my ride to prom said they can wait for a bit in the driveway while I figure this out. I have no experiense in sewing, cannot buy another dress, have it professionally altered or send it back.

It's really not that bad! Only 5 inches missing, nothing too serious. Any alterations must keep the dress completely intact!

I was thinking or just forcing the dress closed with safety pins and hope for the best.

Any advise? Obviously I'll copy paste my original plan to every suggestion that doesn't meet my very reasonable requirments

Thanks in advance!

A family member approached me asking if I wanted to start a crochet business with them. I’m the one who crochets. I gently said that crochet takes a really long time to make and I don’t want to lose my love of my favorite hobby. The retort was “you do it all the time. Don’t you want to make money?”

I know this is coming from a good place, but I can feel the judgement through the screen about crocheting stuff for myself and crocheting gifts occasionally. I have no interest in turning this hobby into a business (yet). I made that mistake a long time ago and didn’t pick up that hobby again for 5 years. Besides, the items that she sent me had an average listing price on Etsy of $25. That would be below minimum wage when we factor in time and the cost of materials.

It just really upset me. I know it shouldn’t, but I don’t want to feel bad for enjoying my favorite hobby and the implication that I don’t work (I do, just from home) and would have the time for what she’s asking for, and would do it happily for below minimum wage.

How would you handle this?

arghhhh my brain hurts so much, can't believe written patterns can be so difficult, how dare they write patterns in a perfectly normal succinct way! i need more info! even the YouTube videos were not enough! hold my hand through everything! ignore the fact that my brain has rotted from watching 8 hours of crochet tok a day!

anyway still finished my blabket and it is beautiful :) started a second one! just needed to VENT first