people think knitting and crochet are nothing more than quaint little old lady hobbies and like, they absolutely are little old lady hobbies among other things but you should also know that in the fiber community there’ve been multiple cases of indie yarn sellers faking their deaths to try dodging accountability for being bad business owners
I'm sorry, they will WHAT, now?!?
Yeah apparently if you use the wrong brand or the wrong fiber content you get bullied so bad the mods of one subreddit banned discussions about certain topics altogether. I know I won't post there anymore.
Wow holy shit and I thought the needle wars (mostly joking) were bad
I know people get crapped on for crocheting or for using the “wrong” fiber, but I must be in the wrong subreddits cuz I’ve never seen the dramas on Reddit. Brb I’m gonna go look for it, even though I know it’ll probably give me a headache. Needle wars, lol
Needle wars were not a reddit drama, it's just my observation that in any given knitting-related group, the SECOND someone asks anything along the lines of "what's the best needle material?" no one can ever agree.
Never met anyone who actually likes plastic needles so I THINK we can at least all agree that those are awful?
Has anyone mentioned the Setting Babies On Fire argument yet?
I dunno about the plastic needle thing - I’ve got some lovely Prym Ergonomic ones which do wonders for not making my hands cramp.
1. How the hell did I forget the whole Babies on Fire discourse
2. I have never actually heard of those before! I haven't heard of ergonomic knitting needles before, actually. What makes them ergonomic, if you don't mind explaining?
Their shaft is triangular (rather than circular), which can make it easier to grip, and the points have a special shape I think to make picking up stitches easier? They're also very bendy.
Oh that is a very helpful summary, thank you!
I have exactly one pair of square needles and they're sort of uncomfortable with the way I hold them, but it's nice to hear about interesting varieties!
Love seeing people light fires in the fiber arts world without even claiming to be doing a flame test, this is marvelous
I like knitting with plastic needles! Metal hurts my fingers in phases when I knit only casually (no calluses), and wood can be to slippery with the wrong yarn. Plastic is completely fine!
I fiend over vintage plastic dpns, but I don't use them often because they can get fragile. There's a nice give to them that a lot of modern hard plastic needles don't have.
