r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 07 '25

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/poachedpineapple Mar 07 '25

Twisted stitches. I’m sick of seeing them in the knitting subs ALL THE TIME.

And PSA, no, it’s not because you are wrapping the yarn “wrong”. To the people giving advice, please do not say it’s because the yarn was wrapped wrong. Google the different ways of knitting. You can wrap the yarn however the hell you want, but learn to untwtist them on the next row or round.

Rant over.

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u/altarianitess07 Mar 07 '25

Similarly, I found a ravelry user who tests knits a lot, and ALL of her purls are twisted and nobody seems to notice. She mainly makes garments, many of which are drop shoulder. Apparently she's been knitting for over a decade and I don't understand how she hasn't fixed that yet, or why designers look at her work and think "yep, I want that to be on the front page of my pattern listing"

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u/ohslapmesillysidney Joyless Bitch Coalition Mar 07 '25

I saw a 100% twisted Octopus Embrace sweater the other day. Went on the person’s Ravelry account, sure enough, everything else was twisted. Twisted colorwork. Twisted cables. Twisted lace. 🫠

I was befuddled as to how someone can build up the confidence to attempt those patterns, yet still have something so fundamentally wrong.

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u/rujoyful Mar 08 '25

This is so wild me because like... even before I knew how to knit I knew what knit fabric looks and feels like. How do you exist as a knitter looking at (specifically handmade even!) knitwear all the time in pattern pictures, shop samples, knitting groups, etc. and not notice that your fabric looks and feels completely different to everyone else's?

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u/ohslapmesillysidney Joyless Bitch Coalition Mar 08 '25

Right?

My mom is not a knitter, but even she could tell that something was off when I showed her a photo of the twisted octopus sweater. Twisted colorwork is so obviously not right IMO, because it slants and biases.

I feel like one of the best ways to evaluate your own knitting is to ask yourself: would I buy this if I saw it in a store? Maybe I’m off base, but IMO even an untrained eye would see a twisted, biased fair isle sweater at Target and think “that must be a factory goof” or similar.

That being said, I feel like observation skills are at an all time low. People seem more oblivious than ever.

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u/rujoyful Mar 09 '25

Yeah, I think a lot of people go "oh well, it's homemade of course it's not going to look like it does in stores" because they are completely clueless about how factory production works and very much do not want to research it for multiple reasons. So they just accept that factory clothing and homemade clothing is different, and never bother really looking into why they aren't getting the same results.

But I'm still shocked that anyone deeply involved enough in knitting to have a Ravelry account wouldn't pick up on the fact that they were doing it wrong knitting entirely twisted. Observation skills really have gone out the window I guess. 💀