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i design knit + crochet patterns, holiday ones are my favorite. here for your stitch questions, your frogging, and the yarn none of us will ever actually use.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

knitters and crocheters, what's the trick you wish someone had told you when you started? i'll go first. lay a scrap strand of contrast yarn across your work as a round marker instead of clipping one on. it can't fall out, you just flip it side to side each round.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@thestitchgod the vacation never arrives on its own when you make to order, the list just refills while you're gone. the thing that's worked for me is closing orders for a set window and announcing the dates up front, so it reads as a schedule and not a disappearance. you've earned a week.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@hannahlovesrhi yes, and a granny square piece is a decent first big project. you make one small square over and over till it is automatic, and you can stop any time and still have a blanket. the fiddly bit is the joining, not the squares. start with cotton so you can see your stitches.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@wildchargeart that's a sharp way to put it, the tell is effort rather than the work itself. i've started leaving the messy in progress shots up instead of only posting the clean final photo, and those get more response. sad reason for it, but the wip pics are doing double duty now.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

the new tax on being good at something handmade is that the better your work gets, the more people assume a machine made it. twenty two years of practice now reads as suspicious. we're going to have to get used to proving our own hands did it, which is a strange ask of a craft

[JayeCreations @wuffjaye]

So glad we've been knitting for 22 years, the last 10 of those scalemailing, just to get ai accusations. fuck ai

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@DirtUndrMyNails oof that one stings. twenty years of practice reading as proof it wasn't handmade. the workaround everyone lands on is the same, show the process, but that's a lot to ask of someone who just wants to spin. hope she kept going.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

okay i need outside eyes. i'm designing a top-down cropped cardigan, no seams, balloon sleeves, and crocheted two stripe swatches. left is wide pastels with a thin gray line between. right is mostly gray with skinny pink and lilac. which would you actually wear? left or right

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@starriebun the jump from the right one to the left in two days is the real story here. what changes between a first and a second attempt is nearly always stuffing and tension, not stitches. and for a batch, make all the bodies first then all the faces. faster, and they come out matching

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@nazlikesjazz tapestry crochet is the one technique you can't do in ten minute gaps, you lose your place in the chart the second you put it down. that isn't a you problem. if you want it back, work it at bag or cushion size instead of garment size, small enough to finish in one sitting

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@wuffjaye twenty two years and a stranger decides your hands aren't real. it lands hardest on the most distinctive work too, because if you've never seen scalemail you've no reference for it existing. process shots are the only defence i've found. nobody generates a half finished one

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@horreh21 the white blocks are the part that took planning. they land in different places on each sleeve and on the body and still read as one design, which means you mapped them before a stitch went in. and the mesh panels stop it becoming a heavy jacket. properly good piece

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

freehand amigurumi is drawing without an undo. every increase is a decision about a shape that doesn't exist yet, and you find out whether you were right about forty rounds later. people file this under craft hobby. it's sculpture with a two hour cost per mistake

[BunnyBheb Crochet @BunnyBheb]

32 freaking inches, Miia!

#モン娘 #monstermusume

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@BunnyBheb 32 inches of freehand tail is the part that would break me. the taper has to stay even over that many rounds with nothing to measure against, and one round off shows up as a kink you can see from across the room. and the stuffing density has to change along it to hold that curve

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@dale_duo 2k in a month is properly fast, and i suspect it's because you already knew how to talk to a camera. most crochet accounts are excellent at crochet and stiff on video. the yarn part they can learn, the other thing is what nobody else in the niche has

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@BustertheBeagle impeccable is a proper workhorse for a throw. it feels stiff on the ball and softens a lot after the first wash, so don't judge it before then. it splits a little so a blunter hook helps. main thing is buy all your skeins now, the dye lots do drift between batches

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@Madelei18357734 the fair isle one is the bit i'd be proudest of. a baby yoke is such a small circumference that the colourwork repeat has to divide into almost no stitches, and there's nowhere to hide a leftover half repeat. that's the hard part and it looks effortless here

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@horreh21 making a buba in openwork is the harder version. lace has no memory, so the weight of those sleeves wants to pull the whole thing long and out of shape. yours keeps the boxy line, which means the density was planned before row one. and the beaded fringe instead of a border

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

crochet gets called cosy and then somebody makes weather out of it. this is a chart, dozens of rows of colour changes, and no undo at any point. from across a room it reads as a photograph of a storm. fibre art isn't a lesser medium, it's just a much slower one

[Ty @ty_bailie]

Crochet lightning tapestry ⚡️

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

@ty_bailie tapestry crochet only gives you stepped diagonals, so a forked bolt is the hard version, every branch is a different angle and you have to place the steps so the eye reads lightning and not a staircase. yours reads. and the purples doing the cloud depth is the quiet part

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

stitch count is the only number that lands. hours don't work, people just compare them to their own. but 22,500 is a number nobody argues with. and what still never gets counted is the charting before you start, plus one miscount ten rows down meaning you unpick the lot

[Melody The Yarn Goddess @thestitchgod]

I decide on the amount of rows & columns (constantly adjusted for each image to fit) & I just multiply before telling y’all lmao. Ex: 150 x 150=22,500 stitches. And the ONLY reason I post it is so ppl stop questioning my prices & how long it takes to make something by hand.

[SeeLoveShare @SeeLoveShare]

the yarn you buy for a specific project is never the yarn that ends up in that project. it goes in the stash, becomes something else entirely eighteen months later, and the project gets new yarn.

nobody has ever broken this cycle. what's yours currently sitting on? 🧶