r/fiberartscirclejerk

To give you an example of what I mean, here's my totally irrational craft pet peeve:

I absolutely loathe those little knots that come in my yarn skeins! I worry soooo much that they'll come undone! And then sometimes they're knots between two totally different parts of the color change if it's a color-changing yarn! It's so annoying that yarn manufacturers haven't invented infinity yarn yet!

K, now: GO!

After months of doxxing this shop on social media and leaving anonymous one star Google reviews, I’ve decided the only answer is to burn her shop down. Clearly there’s nothing else I can do besides ruin someone’s livelihood!!! Talk to them???? Offer my help to replace the AI??? Why should I bother to take 10 minutes to educate this uninformed OLD woman (not internalized misogyny btw) who doesn’t know better, when she couldn’t take several hours to find and hire an artist for this last minute event flyer that she needed one of? Or even use Canva, which is definitely NOT full of AI clip art? Why can’t she just figure out computers after growing up with a rotary phone?!?!?!! So clearly my answer is to burn her shop and dream business down.

Ok this is petty AF but people kept recommending the new game "Dressmaker" 🙄 to me because I sew for real. Idk why but it annoys the heck out of me and I won't be playing the game 😒. Something is so cathaetuc about enduring the real life struggles of cutting out the wrong pattern pieces, your machine getting busted out of nowhere, and not having that in game is preventing me from enjoying this fake world where everything works out perfectly because how the fuck else do you ever build character and git gud at sewing irl????? Does anyone else feel this way or do I just have a superiority complex???? ​

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No more of these ‘businesswomen’ and their ‘marketing choices’ and ‘young women picking up stimulating hobbies and making natural fibre garments they'll wear for years’, you're all worse than Trump. We need to make knitting weird again by knitting a six foot long novelty beige bin bag in bulky plastic!

Guuuys I have 6 months until the wedding and I have never sewn 🪡 before, never fit anything before, and I can’t get this dress to fit! I tried two different patterns and mashed them with the sleeve pattern I want, and I don’t know why it doesn’t fit! I want this to be ✨ extra special ✨ because it’s my wedding and this should be super easy! Tell me I’m on the right track and the quick and easy way to fix this so I can move on with my life 💖 oh, and I’ll post photos in two weeks so you all can see the issues!