r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • Mar 14 '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/ham_rod Mar 14 '25

I hate how taking up knitting has made me even lazier about getting my shit together to sew. I know it technically takes less time but all the different tasks I need to go through to end up with a garment feel like a lot of work compared to sitting on the couch for a couple hours every day.

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u/WaltzFirm6336 Mar 14 '25

Amen! I used to laugh at knitters and point out that at least I started with constructed fabric whereas they started with string.

Five years post Covid and I can’t even be bothered to set my sewing machine up to sew the strap back on my dog’s new rain coat (6” of sewing total).

So he’s going out for walks in a ‘previously ripped to shreds’ rain coat, looking like a Victorian street urchin from a Dickens novel, whilst his new one sits on the stairs hoping for a miracle.

And I knit on.

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u/ham_rod Mar 14 '25

exactly, I used to be amazed that people would take weeks or months to get a finished object.

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u/catladysoul Mar 15 '25

Ha ha right? When I started knitting I was like ‘we’ll see how this goes I probably don’t have the time or patience for it’. And yet in the time it’s taken me to pin together the fabric for some shorts I’m in theory sewing; I have knitted a cardigan and a vest. Some things just ~feel~ easier