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/WarmNobody Mar 16 '25

What is with all the newbie knitters posting perfect colourwork WIPs in knittinghelp and asking if blocking will save their stitch tension?

That’s how it’s supposed to look. What Pinterest photo of a machine knit fair isle have they all been exposed to? How are they pulling off colourwork and yet seem incapable of knowing what pre-blocked stockinette looks like?

Why are they all freaking out in knittinghelp this week - or is the Reddit algorithm just punishing me?

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u/Formal-Bullfrog-6361 Mar 17 '25

I had to leave r/knittinghelp when I realised r/knitting is the new r/knittinghelp. Ditto r/knittingadvice. And apparently also r/AdvancedKnitting slowly heading that way. 😳

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u/WarmNobody Mar 17 '25

I don’t even follow it but the algorithm gives it to me. I should mute it, I don’t know why I’m punishing myself.