#yarn rant

[ofnestsandcomfort]

I don't mind working with black yarn, but oh my god does it show EVERYTHING! I think I spend more time picking cat hair and junk off it than I do actually crocheting the thing. >:(

[twistedmaiden]

You know those reviews that are like "this recipe sucked!! I tried to make a carrot cake but I replaced the carrots with watermelon, the flour with powdered sugar, and the salt with shavings from a rock I found outside! And it didn't work! The recipe SUCKS!!"

Fiber crafts is like that too.

"your pattern was bad. My sock didn't fit and didn't hold it's shape." You replaced the sock weight nylon yarn with bulky acrylic yarn and used needles 4 times bigger! It's not going to work!

Yarn suggestions for a pattern are not just a way for people to shill yarn or brag about using ~fancy~ yarn. If a pattern suggests wool you likely want to use wool. Not acrylic, not cotton, not silk. The fibers have different qualities and effects!

There are some replacements that work or some projects where replacements don't really matter, just like with cooking. You CAN replace eggs with something else in something's but maybe not an omelette. Or at least if you do don't expect it to come out like a regular egg omelette???

It's not elitist to say that what you're using isn't going to work for some projects!

[ofnestsandcomfort]

I think I got a weird batch of parfait chunky. :(

I recently ordered 3 skeins of their ruby color that are all from lot #6198, and this first one is just... grip-y? They're not as soft and the yarn doesn't slide along my hook like it normally does, so my stitches end up a lot tighter than I mean them to be - even switching from a 4mm hook to a 6mm hasn't really helped much. I also can't do my normal MRs with this skein because the yarn keeps snapping whenever I try to close it, so I've started doing the MRs in acrylic yarn and then crocheting around that. It works but it's been slowing me down a bunch.

I haven't tried the other colors that I bought with the ruby yet, but I'm hoping they'll be at least a little easier to work with.

[twistedmaiden]

More yarn rant sorry

I hate what "crochet can not be made by machine" has become

I saw a post that was like "me with my crochet cardigan I got from shien before I KNEW ;0; ;0;"

ITS NOT SWEATSHOP LABOR BECAUSE ITS CROCHET ITS SWEATSHOP LABOR BECAUSE ITS FAST FASHION

Even the "machine made" is still made in a sweatshop by PEOPLE

it's virtue signalling now. I would NEVER buy a fast fashion CROCHET item. But will by 5 fast fashion sewn shirts.

Yes that crochet shirt was made by underpaid sweatshop labor. But so was the machine knitted shirt. So was the pair of shoes from shien or temu or whatever. So were everything at Walmart.

It's the way people talk about it that is annoying me. It's bad to buy this made by underpaid labor but it's ok to buy this other stuff made by underpaid labor because it's not as obvious.

[inquisitorius-sin-bin]

Tell me, wtf is going to show up at my front door... because none of these are the same color. I ORDERED the first one, because it was ths PERFECT shade for my project, but then I looked up projects on Ravelry because I started to get anxious that maybe bulky yarn would be TOO bulky for my particular project and it wouldn't look right and I was trying to soothe myself, then when I looked at the "Ruby" colorway, I found the project pictures were kind of all over the place. Now I'm worried I bought the wrong gauge AND the wrong color. Ugh.

And I really splurged on this project too :( $45 for a beanie and gloves.

[kratosyarnion2]

So I got a yarn winder for my birthday.

It’s easily the best yarn based investment I have ever made. The yarn cakes are easier to stash, and I might be able to condense all of my yarn into one container. If it plays out like that, then my life is so much easier because I have to move into a smaller room this week and I can’t have so many large boxes of yarn as much as I want to.