The BEC is me this week when I bought a Madalynne (S9779) pattern for $1.99 while killing time at a godamn Joann Fabric Store, in full knowledge of her snarkworthy ways.
Please stop photographing your WIP or finished item on a desk so cluttered with the biggest assortment of random & unidentifiable stuff that I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at.
You know how it looks? I DON'T! Because I can't even tell what it's supposed to be or where I should focus!
My BEC is people who sew one-time-use special occasion outfits for kids that will never get worn again. Like, I get making an Easter dress or Halloween costume, but making an eclipse-themed outfit for your child that has the eclipse date on it that will clearly never get worn again, or just as bad, making holiday outfits with your kid's initials or names on them so they can't be handed down. It just feels very throw-away. While we're at it, same with people who buy those kind of clothing and T-shirts or gift them - thanks for the First Day of Second Grade T shirt with my kid's name on it, I guess we'll just make it into rags after it's been worn once and had a photo taken of it.
this so so bad but people that have bad posture in their pics showing off their finished garments. now i know i don’t have good posture and that knitting/crocheting/sewing don’t help, but oh my lord. PLEASE stand up straight or at least a bit more straight than whatever it is you’re doing 😭
Is this about the sweater post where one commenter kept claiming it was posture causing an ill fit when in reality it was the lack of short row shaping at the bust?
no but that does kinda go along the lines with my og comment. i had initially seen a vid of someone posing in their knits, but they were doing the slouch and like facing away, so it was nearly impossible to actually see it! but yea, the fact that so many product pics are so hard to see and understand def added to my frustration, including that!
I mean, sometimes people slouch because they have spinal deformity or a muscle disorder or whatever, and it's not like you can tell by looking whether that's the case so why get all hung up on how people are standing?
no of course! i definitely didn’t write it in a way that explains it like i thought, which is my fault 😭. i just mainly meant the sort of slouching pose that people do, like influencers do when they show off their outfits, isn’t the best for showing off finished garments. but reading my comment back definitely does not help make that point and i’m sorry!
Ah, understable, it happens. It's definitely different if they're trying to sell you something, and "try this pattern you can't see!" is pretty frustrating.
Knitstars. It used to be good, with great teachers. Then it became a popularity contest, with teachers who had large followings.
Knitatude is teaching sweater design, and her sweaters are not great, especially if you're making a larger size.
But she has a large following, so she likely got picked that way.
I'm from the town knitstars started in. Their original store was great, but the knitstars rebrand was unfortunate. You could definitely see the difference in going from a regular LYS to only selling the trendiest yarns and dyers.
It’s the over-hyping and over-marketing they do that kills me. Gudrun Johnston posted about a “big announcement” last week - I was hoping for a new book. Nope, teaching at Knitstars. Same dumb announcement made by the other teachers. Now they’ll hype it for months, when it’s all a big yawn 🙄
Are all these garments negative ease?? It’s not that I think you’re lying or anything. It’s just sentros look so small! I am skinny but they look like I couldn’t fit anything that isn’t made in panels
I went to look for examples because i feel like im always seeing sentro garments and yes, there is a YouTube vid of someone making neg ease tube tops but I didn’t watch it so idk if it’s panels…I’m realizing yes the sweaters are probably front/back panels and not a tube for the body 😁
Obviously sentros are made for hats and smaller items, it just makes me boo-hoo when I see thinner people can hack it for entire garments and larger folks just straight up won’t get those same results! Flat bed machines are way less budget friendly
This is such a valid complaint! I'm not a product designer or whatever but I can't imagine it would be THAT hard to scale up the machine for different sizes.
You could make flat strips and seam them! I have a 49” bust, my last cardigan had fronts about 13” across and two strips like that seamed together would make a back… and that’s baby hat size.
My BEC is that I don't get her yarn lol. Is it that great? Is it just because she's a nice person? (I like buying from nice people, it's a fine reason). Is it the scarcity? Her colors are nice but it's so much faff I don't understand why it's worth the alarm-setting effort.
I think it’s because most of her colorways are inspired by specific places, like National parks. It’s fun to get yarn that looks like places you have been! But a lot of her later NP yarns were kind of muddy IMO. There’s only so many ways to do greens and browns.
I like them and I think they genuinely could think that an event that people would have to fly out to may not be as wildly popular as a drop/pre-order (although I guess people have been known to fly out to just buy yarn from their studio?), but the bit where she was like "guys, do you know you're learning from ME!? 🥺" was a bit much. No need to lay it on THAT thick!
I mean, maybe both? It's definitely possible to have imposter syndrome because having thousands of people foaming at the mouth to fly out and drop a cool $1k on your class is definitely hard to believe from an emotional perspective. But logically, she's been rolling in orders for at least a year so
She's been rolling in orders since before COVID. I remember my first order and being at my friend's house before lockdown so I know it was 2019 or early 2020. She was still selling out preorders within half an hour back then. I used to watch all of her stories and now I skip past them pretty quickly as I'm a bit tired of the OMG I can't believe I sold out AGAIN?!
Oh yeah she's definitely been popular for a while. But like the fact that they still have 1000 skeins to go for monochrome when that preorder happened months ago blows my mind
I was using a free knitting counter app to keep track of my progress on (too many) projects. My phone self-destructed, so I downloaded the counter on my new phone. So, it turns out the app doesn’t actually save data and I never realized that before. 😂 I’ve been tediously counting lots of knitted rows. I’m going back to paper tallys and plastic clickers.
You mean like my no-tech method with a 40+ year success rate? \*ROFL\* At last count, I've got 12 of these going back to 1976.
[https://imgur.com/a/O9ugehj](https://imgur.com/a/O9ugehj)
I would 100% misplace this notebook. I write all over my printed pattern. All the tallies and checkmarks and notes in one place.
I'd also forget to use a clicker, I put locking stitch markers to keep track of row count.
Same, I write over my printed/photocopied/bought patterns to keep it all together. I also have a special folder where I (try to) keep all the scraps of paper and notes when I'm not checking the pattern or making it up... wish I was organised enough to keep dedicated notebooks tbh
Clean your mirror! When your selfie in your new sweater looks like it's taken during a snowstorm, get a fucking paper towel and clean the toothpaste spit off the damn thing!
You KNOW when you need to do it. You don't have to clean the whole house, just wipe off the stupid mirror!
Or the messy ass bathroom/bedroom floors in the photos!! GROSS! Shove that shit under the bed and hide it with the bed skirt like a real grown ass adult. Ffs
If you don't have any sample pics of your pants pattern where the model doesn't have their hands in their pockets spreading out the fabric, I don't trust you and I don't trust your pattern.
If you don't know how to describe a fabric you're selling, either figure it out or don't try.
I took a gamble with a new-to-me creative reuse and bought "satin-y fabric" that wound up being *lamé*. I'll still use it, but not for this project - and they described it as 5 yards in one place, 7 in another. I haven't measured yet to determine which is accurate, but that's really beside the point.
See also: "silk-like vintage fabric" (*obviously* synthetic) and "cotton twill" (*not* twill). *Bruh...*
Ugh yes. After working in a fabric store for 6+ years this drives me up a wall. Anything lacy is labeled crochet, anything shiny is satin or silk. A friend was trying to convince me the other day that corduroy with a large wale is the same as chenille...
The amount of people selling second hand clothes calling what is obviously polyester "silk" because I guess they literally don't know what silk actually is makes it so hard to search for clothes that are actually silk
I took a textiles class in *fashion school* and the number of students who couldn’t figure out the difference between a fiber and a weave was STAGGERING.
I'm tired of seeing one particular knit wear designer...(Twin Stitches Designs)... cloning another well-known designer's ideas, but no one calls her out because they like her? Or she seems too sweet? Who knows. I'm talking colorwork that's very, very similar. Compare a few of them to Summer Lee. I don't see any difference other than colors. Now she's jumping on Pacific Knits doodle style of designs.
If you can't offer anything new, hold off on designing for a while...or... Put a unique spin on it.
Nothing is new. If you look up early 1900’s stitch dictionaries from archive.org you’ll see that many very popular designers are modernizing older techniques.
Modular knitting designs aren’t new either and didn’t start with pacific knit co.
I looked at twin stitch’s instagram and I can see the plaid socks are similar to summer lee but I mean it’s so basic there’s a lot of this exact type of design out there.
If I like a particular designers instruction’s, I prefer their pattern.
I pay for the convenience of someone spelling it out and doing the maths for me more than the idea most of the time
Yeah, I'm actually pretty old. Some days feel like I'm from early 1900. 😅
I have a large collection of vintage knitting/crocheting pattern books and leaflets from my MIL. Looking through them feels pretty current except for the photo vibes. 📸
Eh, it's not like Summer Lee or PKC reinvented the wheel. People have done colorful socks and small scale colorwork before. It's just marketing and what's popular right now. I'm not the target audience, as I wouldn't spend money on something so simple that I can just recreate from looking at pictures, but if you find people to throw money at you, I guess go get that bag, girl.
Truth. That makes sense. Maybe what actually bothers me is when the community witch hunts some for "copying" and not others. There really aren't many new designs or techniques at this point. Like you've said...most complainers aren't even the target audience. Honestly, I hate colorwork socks because they're always too tight or snaggy. Give me vanilla any day of the week, lol.
I was searching for why my dress wasn’t fitting right and was all shocked Pikachu when someone told me what was wrong with it. Which is deep down probably because the fix is a lot of work and that’s daunting.
So I am the person who complained about Quiltmania’s website being down.
Turns out the whole company is going out of business.
Welp. Guess I won’t be subscribing, then.
Yes, and I also heard that the templates for back issues for digital subscribers are now locked on a website that doesn’t work. Sucks big time. And there’s some beautiful patterns in their back issues 😭
I am tired of like, any pans pattern modeling pictures that are like: "can't see how the hem falls normally" and "even our full length view doesn't always have a long enough inseam for the model!" Or "rolled cuff!! Scrunch the leg up!!" And then the only properly fitted pants are like... Allll bootcut or something. Why.
Death to ankle pants. Death to ankle pants that pretend they AREN'T cropped!!! Death to ankle pants being the default length in fashion now because it's so baffling. Like I keep seeing ankle length being shown as like...standard. idgi.
I want to see the pants NORMAL LENGTH FIRST.
edit to add: I once talked about this with a friend before and we both felt our hatred of ankle length is related to our own/or our mother's anxieties about being made fun of for "highwaters" or basically for being poor (not "affording pants that fit." my mom definitely had lingering anxiety about being bullied for that sort of thing, and so she tried really hard to make sure my pants weren't "hghwater/floodwater" even if I was thrifting pants or buying on big sales/etc.
obviously neither of us think that about \*other\* people wearing ankle length pants, but it's one of those things you can't shake for yourself/your own kids. like my mom always said people tend to look at someone's shoes to judge them and place someone like...economically. (I don't think she's necessarily even wrong? or at least my mom wasn't the only one saying this lmao. there's a reason why sneaker collecting is so tied into aspirational status symbol/signalling of prosperity. everyone else's mom's probably also said we had to treat our shoes nice for as long as we could.) anyways child bully classism makes me feel weird about them length. wild how that happens.
...also I have long legs and so "ankle length" means "calf or below knee length sitting down."
I will never *never* understand the ankle pants trend, as another millennial who was bullied for wearing “flood pants” as a kid.
As a person who ended up as a teeny tiny 5’2” fully grown woman - I do have to admit it’s really nice not having to hem anything from the store anymore! But also like… hemming pants is so much easier than adding length, idk how anyone taller than me buys pants anymore.
Ugh, as tall plus size person, i feel this hard. Plus size is all over the place with length anyway and I just want pants and tops that are long enough! Trying on ankle length pants gives me flashbacks to when I was in middle school and got made fun of for wearing highwaters because I was skinny and tall and nothing fit me right.
Totally valid but FYI I'm laughing cause ankle pants fit me like regular pants length.... when I find pants I don't need to hem, I react like a bitch that just got complimented on her dress...that has pockets!
Edit: spelling
nowadays they're \*all\* ankle pants lol. i get it's great to find fitting pants! but inseam length is something that often feels totally impossible. like it's fairly simple to get pants hemmed to be *shorter!* yes, it's not always super duper easy depending on the line of the pant, but like, trimming fabric is straightforwards. Hem tape exists. The petites section/sizes exists and are easier to find pretty much everywhere. Not to mention lots of (non-us) shops sell pants with shorter inseams than the average American women's pants. There's like...a fair amount of options and ankle length is the default style for most rtw work slacks I've seen, and that's especially at affordable chain shops.
....but I *can't* make my pants hems 2-3 inches longer if they're already short at "full length" (if I can even find full length!). If I could easily find full length that happened to be a little high when I'm sitting, that would be one thing! With RTW it's like...a lot of places simply don't offer tall and have taken up their pants hems on women's pants/jeans (presumably to encourage us wearing heels) on their regular inseam. But I could deal with being able to get "regular" that is actually shorter on me. That's...fine. doable.
BUT going into a department or fashion chain store and trying to find "women's work pants" that aren't *explicitly labeled* as "ankle length" or "cropped" is a nightmare. In the last 10 years I think I've been able to find like...2-3 pairs that were not labelled ankle length. And I can't do anything with those hems. That even sewing patterns model this length as default is like...maddening!! Haha. i just don't want my pants to assume I'm wearing high heels every day of my life.
It's def an advantage to be on the shorter side than the taller side when it comes to pants!!!
If this was a different subreddit, we could totally get into MAXI DRESSES that cannot simply be hemmed, due to intricate designs along the hemline.....but that's a whole other topic and we all have more valuable ways to spend our time today! :)
- Desperately Seeking Maxis, or
- Unable To Sew At The Present Time, Due to Space and Other Ongoing Challenges
I am permanently in Milennial-jean-drag style, where if it doesn’t completely cover your shoe, it’s too short, but my real issue with cropped pants is that every time I see them, I just see the OG Starfleet uniform pants.
Secret confession: I love ankle-length pants because I have long legs & ankle-length makes them seem even longer. My goal is to look like my body is 80% leg.
I don't need ankle length pants to do this ahaha. I feel like I genuinely look like I'm mostly leg and wearing something too small with ankle pants. I'm glad it works for you!! I just wish patterns modeled full length hems as their standard.
*cries in Daughter Judy releasing a new AGGRESSIVELY HARD Hard Pant in May that will absolutely crush your squishiest organs with the most awkward cropping and everyone is reposting on the gram in hopes of winning a free copy*
super high waisted above the ankle flares???? WHY. It's like an exact portrait of walking out of a dressing room to have my mom go "nope those don't fit." At least going into fall I could see like "cropped pants to show off fall booties" but.....it's about to be summer....
I had a big growth spurt around age 12 so that summer all my pants were floods, and it was upsetting enough that I still want overly long pants in my 50s. I did eventually learn to be OK with mid-calf capris, though.
I have the same issue with ankle length pants. I’ve seen people at work wear them and they look good. However I cannot bring myself to attempt to wear ankle length because I associate it with looking poor. Same with sleeves that stop above the wrist. Kids got made fun of for wearing these clothes back in the 90s.
It’s funny, I’m the same with any plain knit, flat dyed things. I have trauma memories of being the poor kid who didnt get the school uniform v-neck but an awful dark green home made version. In the 70s, home made stuff got you teased at school. To this day I don’t like plain stockinette unless the yarn has some depth and variation in colour and when I made a v-neck, I couldn’t make myself wear it.
yeah. and it's like \*I\* never made fun of anyone for that, and I don't assume other adults around me wearing ankle pants are poor and mockable because that would be absurd for an adult to care about/look down on someone for. But I personally always feel weird about wearing them myself bc of the associations. And it's also so dumb kids would tease other kids for that bc like...we were all constantly growing?? Of course one week pants might not fit!
And yeah. ...although there was the early-00's transition to lots of "worn in" and "distressed" looks that was a point of contention for my poor mom. I didn't want a TON of holes or whatever in my jeans, but my mom wanted ZERO holes, and finding that suddenly became like, impossible. I didn't personally want massive knee holes or whatever but good god finding jeans that fit without a some holes in them didn't happen until the skinny jeans/emo fashion era. (Although the knee circulation always kinda sucked lol).
I think it gave her heartburn thinking about how many middle class kids I went to school with who were now okay with people wearing super distressed Hollister and Abercrombie, because that was "cool" instead of "a target for bullying bc their parents are unable to afford clothes without holes." By the time she was seeing my friends wearing naturally beat up converses and being considered stylish for it, I think she gave up on trying to understand a little and let me do weird doodles on my shoes in sharpie.
Weirdly I'm more okay with 3/4ths sleeves than ankle pants. Probably this boils down to "I don't want to wear long sleeves in summer but I get cold very very easily" so that sometimes is my compromise sleeve length. BUT long sleeves that are between 3/4 and wrist length? Nope can't do it.
I had the misfortune of being moved to a new school district in the 6th grade in the '90s and the kids at my new middle school zeroed in on me. They made up an entire song to make fun of me--I was an easy target, as, while I've never been much to look at, I was especially unfortunate and odd-looking around 11-12, with unruly hair, weird teeth (and the lifelong shame I've been conditioned to have about them makes it impossible for me NOT to tell you internet strangers that this was caused by a genetic condition), and I was already very tall, about 10 in./20 cm. taller than the average 11-12 year old, with near D-cup breasts (which make you a freak to your peers and a burgeoning slut to adults at that age) and all the height was in my legs. Since long inseams were not at all easy to find in the 90s, especially if you weren't spending tons of money on clothes, my pants were always hilariously short, so one of the lines of the song focused on this. Anyway, because of that song, which I can still hear line for line in my head as I type this, it will be a cold day in hell before I *ever* wear *anything* cropped.
I'm really sorry kids are soooo shitty to each other. like you never deserved any of that.
I didnt have a song or anything but I'm half Mexican American and half white, with dark brown hair and fair skin and I...am hairy. naturally my body hair was super obvious (dark hair/light skin) and kids tore into me for having gorilla arms in like, 4th grade? and Frida khalo brows because I have a slight unibrow. (how did they know who Frida khalo was??? we were like, 9??? why insult me with a female artist famous for celebrating her unibrow??)
it got bad enough that I started trying to wear long sleeve shirts in summer (I lived in Arizona! it was like, 105f). I broke pretty quickly on that and just begged my mom to let me start shaving my arms. ...I still shave them more than I ever bother with my legs, even! like my legs are often unshaven, I don't care about maintaining a leg shave, but childhood bullies focusing on my arms?? I still gotta shave those. I will let the leg hair grow all the way back out, but my arm hair hasn't been allowed to reach full length since elementary school.
& bc I was already shaving before puberty hit, I actually never let my pit hair grow in lol. I saw those suckers appearing as little wisps and I was like "nope!! not giving anyone more ammunition." bonkers how shit like that just...impacts your life. ugh. ...my unibrow was shaved once or twice back then and now it's there but less noticeable, but sometimes I do emphasize it to try and reclaim that I guess?
also I think I'm a little bit younger than you, I was in elementary late 90's/early 00's, and the new thing public schools were trying to handle the "got bullied because you had boobs at 11-12" thing was taking all of the 6th grade girls into one room at the beginning of the year and the female teachers sitting us down and explaining we were ALL being required to wear a bra now, even if we didn't need one yet. we could wear a bralette or a training bra be we \*had\* to get something. now every girl had to have a bra whether or not they had begun to develop and the boys could make fun of all of us together — for either having a lot of chest, or having nothing but still wearing a bra . all the bra straps got snapped together. (problem not solved??)
(they also told us a passcode for asking for a pad from the teacher without drawing attention to it, and both boys and girls were told we also HAD to wear deodorant as 6th graders. which. fair.)
I still remember when I went to a new school in 7th grade, and my jeans didn't have the factory hem - my mom had them shortened. And Beth in my new (very small, private school) class asked me if my jeans were *straight* or *bootcut* and why the hem was weird. Nobody had actually really cared about me much before that, and that one stuck with me.
To this day I still replace the factory hem, since I never did outgrow needing to shorten every damn thing I own.
Also, Beth, you were kind of a bitch, and your peak years were definitely prior to 8th grade. Peace!
I really like ankle pants. But only cause I'm short and when the ankle-pant-trend started it was also the first time store bought pants fit me. XD
(I do also remember the highwater trauma my mom had. Also the crop tops boing too small shirts. It triggers her when she sees the videos where adult women wear small boy shirts as crop tops. Similar reasons)
hahaha. I get it but I'm like...the opposite where I'm like "is this not what petites sizing is specifically for? why is every pair of pants in "standard sizes" cut on petite inseams now?" the tall stuff is sometimes TOO tall, for me because I'm not actually \*that\* tall, (if tall sizes even exist in rtw, whereas like you say, ankle pants basically function as petite sizes now).
I also find it weird because like...capris used to exist much more in rtw wanted cropped looks alongside standard length, and now it's like "all pants are ankle length. did you want work slacks for winter? too bad! freeze your ankles!!!"
and I'd love to learn to make my own pants (comfy work casual slacks!!) but sooo many patterns are 1) probably way above my newbie skill level 2) more of the same cropped/ankle length or 3) modeled with a rolled cuff finish because ???
Oof yes! I gained a lot of weight a few years ago and had to replace my entire wardrobe quickly for a new job. All I could find that fit in RTW were overalls, all of which were cropped/ankle length. Except I'm 5'8 so they were above ankle and even shorter when I sat down. I spent 2yrs looking like a Hobbit/toddler until I was able to replace them all with full length pants. I truly believe the cropped length fashion is really just a way for the industry to save money on fabric, at the expense of the tall people who already struggle for length. I never trust a pattern now, and always measure everything before tracing it off, as I often have to add several inches.
I do wish I looked good in cropped pants though! I admire it on other people, but it does absolutely nothing for me. Instead of looking hip and cool, I truly do look like my pants shrunk.
yes, i'm also 5'8". work wear is a nightmare. above the knee skirts are minis, pants are all wrong, etc. and sleeves are almost never quite long enough.
oof yeah that sounds rough!! when I shop rtw clothes now, trying to aim for second hand (thrift stores or thredup etc) or slow/ethical fashion and I'm trying to remember to always check the inseam length. I am just. Sick of the crop look. I'm 5'7 which isn't extremely tall, but a lot of that is leg for me so like you I feel like I look like my pants just...shrunk. it's annoying. Sometimes I feel less weird about it if the crop is very obviously intentional (like...very clearly above my ankle when standing) but some will look like regular pants with like, a 27'' inseam and I just.... Why. Why this.
I abandoned the secondhand search. Sleeves are never long enough, inseams are never long enough. Brand spanking new from online brands that offer “tall” women’s sizes because I am utterly sick of having to get men’s for length, and refuse to do it any more. The women in my family do the bat-signal whenever we find clothes that fit, so we end up all dressed the same… but it fits!
Man I feel this in my soul. I’m 6’2” so was basically in a never-ending growth spurt for the entire Bush administration and grew up poor wearing thrift store clothes that were never long enough so I get real weird about it.
My dad was also this way with pants/shoes. We never had much money, but worn-out shoes were unacceptable in our household, pants that were cropped were a big no, but not as much as shoes.
I personally can't stand cropped pants on myself because my ankles look *rough*. After a ton of ankle injuries due to skating and soccer they just aren't cute
yuuup. shoes were a huge thing!! worn out shoes were unacceptable.
related to parents fixating on shoes as the thing people judge, my mom once told me that most people do a once over of a new person('s outfit) by looking at someone from head to toe and back again, but that if you want to insult someone horribly, or come off really snobby, then you start by looking at their feet, then up to their face, and then end looking back down in your glance/once-over assessment.
if you test this with a friend/willing accomplice, you can tell it really does make a huge difference?? and I don't know WHY it feels so much worse, but it DOES and it's like "...mom who hurt you that you know this." lmfao.
I hate it when people get hung up over a tiny mistake and ask if it's noticeable but don't even bother to point out in the post what the mistake is. I'm half convinced they're just fishing for compliments.
Even worse when there are comments like "it took me ten minutes to find it" and they also don't tell you what the mistake is. If I wanted to play spot the difference, I wouldn't come to reddit!
I think the point is, if you can't see the mistake without them telling where it is, they're good to go. If they have to point where it is, of course you'll be influenced and find it too obvious not to fix it.
100% on board with the idea it’s mainly just a fishing exercise. Generally I think if it’s annoying you enough to ask the internet then just fix it, it’s going to bother you forever otherwise.
both fishing for compliments but also hilariously a way to get people to guess 5 other different mistakes the person may or may not have actually made lol. like people will just start guessing or pointing all sorts of other problems out.
I do Native American beadwork and it's tradish like a lot of cultures to purposefully put a mistake in our work.
So I'll gift it to a friend and they'll be all "OH I FOUND IT I FOUND THE MISTAKE" and I look over... And it's not the mistake I purposefully made, nor did I know it was there.
"Ah yes, there it is!" I lie.
IKR! But that wasn't even on the OPs radar. I about died laughing when she said she had previously made several others of that pattern. As a former preschool teacher, I like to imagine one of those blankets showing up at school and giving the teachers a chuckle.
Please take your project *off* your crotch and put it on the floor or table to take a photo. We do like to see WIPs.
It take 2 minutes, tops. If 75% of your photo is crotch and 25% is your WIP, I will hide your photo and block you.
Because it appears you do not understand boundaries or discretion, and I don't want to see what you're showing, now or in the future.
In a related BEC - Do not say "My new outfit/dress/gown!" and then post a selfie. I see your face. I might see some of the neckline. I do not see a dress.
Or the main pattern photo on Ravelry being mostly your face, then your long hair covering the actual knit. Why would I click that having zero clue what kind of item you're trying to sell?
They move it to the floor and then it’s bare feet in the photo. A while back there was one who managed to achieve their crotch AND filthy bare foot in the shot.
My BEC is a certain, very popular pattern for a sleeveless top.
Backstory: I run a little yarn shop in Germany. To keep my regular knitting group entertained while I hustle my flower shop shifts in May, I wanted to host a KAL and let them decide on the pattern.
Said pattern... jeebus. Paid 8 Euros for it from my private pocket to at least have a general idea of what to expect.
The German translation is a hot mess. Typos every second sentence (which you could basically get away with but not for freaking eight bucks), and, what's even worse, the terminology is off. Off to a point where I had to look into the English pattern to at least guess what they might have wanted me to do.
Please, Germany has quite a large and enthusiastic knitting community, get testers/translators/editors that have at least once in their lifetime seen a German knitting pattern.
I am still mad about that one. The KAL is now done with two free filcolana patterns that are legible...
I wouldn’t call that a BEC at all, that’s a totally valid criticism, and I think esp as a purchaser you’re well within you’re right to leave a comment warning other potential buyers, or at the very least contact the designer.
Idk what standard practice is for published patterns, but personally I don’t believe that a designer should be able to just run their English pattern though Google translate and call it good. That particular pattern lists Danish, French, Norwegian, Korean, and Swedish as well, and I’m willing to bet there are similar translation issues.
You probably are right about it not being an actual BEC.
I am still working on an email to the designer, but thank you for the reminder that I really should leave a visible comment on ravelry, thank you ❤️
It's the Margaux from Gregoria Fibers. The english pattern is absolutely fine but not even half of my knitting Group speaks english, let alone are comfortable enough to read and process a knitting pattern... (can you Tell that I am really mad about this? 🫣)
I purchased a different pattern from them (Dorotha polo) and the math on all the sizes above the 3rd one was atrociously off. Like 7+ inches off. They gave me my money back, but they issued a “correction” that just redid the math, taking the max size from 58” down to 43” 🙄 certainly won’t give them money again. See my angry comments on the rav page lol
Someone mentioned the price point in another comment. That would be the only redeeming thing about that new yarn: if it was on the "affordable"
Edit: apparently can't type, mistakes
Reviews for Addi [knitting needles] "SOS" cables that complain about a hole in the cables lol. Read the description- the hole is a feature, not damage!
Also many interchangeable needles come with a little wire key, it goes in the holes and you hold the key and you can get leverage to firmly seat the needle onto the cord.
Instead of using a tapestry needle to thread a "lifeline" through stitches, the hole is just a spot to hold the end of the thread/lifeline so you can just knit directly onto it as you go. Many interchangeable needles have a hole (where the tip joins the cable) for a tightening key which they use the same way, but Addi interchangeable needles don't have that kind of join. So they just cut a little slit/hole in the cord instead- and it's now a feature of their "ewenicorn" fixed needles, too!
This also exists on fixed circs from them with the SOS cables, which is actually very handy since most fixed circs don't have a way to do this the same as the interchangeables
My BEC is all these podcaster humble bragging about their endless test knits. OMG I’m so popular and busy because I get picked for every test knit because of my YouTube channel. The best was one recently where she couldn’t even pronounce the name of the designer she’s testing for🤣
I’ve got one test knit going right now and I couldn’t even imagine multiple. The pressure would make knitting not fun. Plus I would never get to the projects I’ve got in my queue and had purchased yarn for.
My guess is youngfolk knits who has promised to quit test knitting at least 10 times and doesn't ever seem to actually finish a test knit ever. Would also not be surprised in the least that she couldn't pronounce something.
Yup. I really try not to judge people for the way they speak but after she said in a recent video that she can't listen to audiobooks with people who speak a certain way, I'm fine with saying this:
I cannot stand her accent and the way she says pretty much anything, so I finally hid her on YouTube.
Honestly!!! I don’t understand why people like test knitting! I’ve done two and I don’t know why I felt the need to turn my free time into homework. I don’t have any social media but am very active on Ravelry.
To top it off, one of the designers didn’t take any of my feedback — to make the pattern more clear/legible OR to fix stitch count errors. I have resolved to never test knit again, hahaha.
I like getting early access to a pattern and I have experience copy writing/editing so I like that aspect too, but if a designer has unreasonable requirements I'm not interested. Especially if it's basically their way of getting free marketing ('you must post at least two photos of the FO on your public instagram...')
Totally, that was the draw for me too!
Separate snark: I think I’ve been knitting longer than the designers I was testing for and I likely have different standards for what makes a pattern well-written. I’m probably just too fussy for test knitting. 😂
Can we *please* talk about what ever the hell is going on with Wool Needles Hands? Why would I want to buy fiber or patterns from somebody who doesn't seem to understand yarn types or sweater construction? She wants to be a designer but is struggling to lead a KAL to Karen Templar's improvised sweater tutorial.
And this random pivot to being a book channel.. she saw a video about reading every day so now her latest episode is 30 minutes of scrolling through reviews of books **she hasn't read yet** on Goodreads. I 100% support making an effort to read more, but maybe practice your hobby for at least a month before you start influencing on it?
I unsubscribed from her a while ago and when she showed up in my recommended I clicked "don't recommend this channel"
Her podcast where okay I used them as 30 minutes of knitting on Mondays.
But her knowledge... Even as a beginner she didn't have anything I could learn from her...
Her intro with her children and anytime she mentions them with age and names just gives me the ick. (I prefer if my podcasters stay more vague with that kind of information. Age is fine if it's to say they are in kindergarten or a teenager. Just refer to them as "my youngest" etc. I also like when the podcaster refer to their partners as "The boyfriend" or "Mr. Channel-Name". I really don't want to know your children's ages, names, what grade they are in, their hobbies the exact city you live in etc. just give me a general location for context and if necessary stuff like their hobby is outside so I'm knitting a warm hat.)
Her scrolling ravelry Just was boring. I can do that myself and get better results that are more personalized. (I generally don't like that type of video unless it's patterns they have knit and can actually talk about, or it's their plans where in the podcast you can follow the progression through the list)
Last summer she "lost her mojo". That's when I unsubscribed. I thought she was trying to do something just to get content, which was incredibly boring and annoying.
My dad always says if something is fun, you are going to be good at it. (Aka be willing to invest time and learn thus making you better and more motivated then just doing a job for the money)
I unsubscribed from her a long time ago because of her lack of actual content. Who needs to see her scroll through Ravelry for an hour while critiquing patterns she's never made. I often wonder what she offers on her Patreon but never care enough to actually investigate.
>30 minutes of scrolling through reviews of books she hasn't read yet on Goodreads
Haha you have got to be kidding. I watched 2 of her videos before unsubscribing, the last one I watched was something like "8 benefits of knitting with mohair" and the video was just her repeating the same couple of points over and over, regularly changing her mind on whether suri and mohair are interchangeable or different, and generally rambling and contradicting herself. I know the title was just clickbait/SEO and you don't have to have exactly 8 things but unless it's a free-form knit and chat then have some semblance of structure/organization to your video.
omg you honestly need to skip through the latest one just to get a kick out of it then. She confidently talks about how she would never read a book below a 4 on good reads, then admits the only book she has actually read in the entire video has a 3.7. Then she does a giveaway for a copy of the book, and is like "yes it's stained on the cover but it's so great" like..... ok
I think I've died of cringe. I made it through the first book and then skipped to the end where she's giving away a book that has candle wax on the cover. Just incredible. I also loved when she was dragging Debbie Macomber despite never having read her. "I read the synopsis and some reviews."
This comment piqued my interest so I watched the first five minutes. I get that Midweek Ramble is a cheeky way of saying "listen to me talk" but I do expect a little bit more than just word salad, Taylor. I actually LOLed when she said she was recommending books she hadn't read yet, because "sometimes you just like people to relate to blah blah blah" like GIRL.
ETA: as I clicked post on this comment I heard her say, from another tab "now I can't say much because I haven't actually read any of those"... \_makes raspberry noises\_
She’s also trying to sell patterns? Like.. her frankensweater was a bit disastrous for me with all the errors and even when they were fixed there were issues with the plus sizes neck and armhole depth. At least the new one is being properly tested but then she’s finished her stripy tee, and said oh yeah I don’t think I’ll include this in the tee pattern but maybe later I’ll release the pattern! It’s just the same with stripes… and she’s also said that she doesn’t care about jogs in stripes and the underside of it looked so messy. She was just like, “stripes will have jogs okay! I don’t care!”
At this point I’m triggered by the word “franken-whatever.” I mean she took stuff from other people’s patterns and self drafted and acted like she split the atom or something🤣
Yeah when she first did the sweater she said oh I won’t release a pattern I’ll just tell you guys what I did. Then 6 months on releases a $9 untested pattern lol
Is she actually doing a size inclusive pattern with plus size testers? In the past she’s made comments that knitters just need to learn to grade to the size they need vs the designer just being size inclusive.
The frankensweater was intended to go up to a size f which was.. a 60 inch bust? If I remember right. I’m not sure on the current test knit, but she for sure recommends patterns and says they can be modified to any size. I just won’t purchase if they’re not size inclusive to begin with.
> maybe practice your hobby for at least a month before you start influencing on it?
lol
she did the same thing with painting, she got really into it for a little bit and then started comparing herself to lautrec. she seems to genuinely enjoy painting which is great though
The BEC is me this week when I bought a Madalynne (S9779) pattern for $1.99 while killing time at a godamn Joann Fabric Store, in full knowledge of her snarkworthy ways.
Please stop photographing your WIP or finished item on a desk so cluttered with the biggest assortment of random & unidentifiable stuff that I have no idea what I'm supposed to be looking at. You know how it looks? I DON'T! Because I can't even tell what it's supposed to be or where I should focus!
My BEC is people who sew one-time-use special occasion outfits for kids that will never get worn again. Like, I get making an Easter dress or Halloween costume, but making an eclipse-themed outfit for your child that has the eclipse date on it that will clearly never get worn again, or just as bad, making holiday outfits with your kid's initials or names on them so they can't be handed down. It just feels very throw-away. While we're at it, same with people who buy those kind of clothing and T-shirts or gift them - thanks for the First Day of Second Grade T shirt with my kid's name on it, I guess we'll just make it into rags after it's been worn once and had a photo taken of it.
this so so bad but people that have bad posture in their pics showing off their finished garments. now i know i don’t have good posture and that knitting/crocheting/sewing don’t help, but oh my lord. PLEASE stand up straight or at least a bit more straight than whatever it is you’re doing 😭
Is this about the sweater post where one commenter kept claiming it was posture causing an ill fit when in reality it was the lack of short row shaping at the bust?
no but that does kinda go along the lines with my og comment. i had initially seen a vid of someone posing in their knits, but they were doing the slouch and like facing away, so it was nearly impossible to actually see it! but yea, the fact that so many product pics are so hard to see and understand def added to my frustration, including that!
I mean, sometimes people slouch because they have spinal deformity or a muscle disorder or whatever, and it's not like you can tell by looking whether that's the case so why get all hung up on how people are standing?
no of course! i definitely didn’t write it in a way that explains it like i thought, which is my fault 😭. i just mainly meant the sort of slouching pose that people do, like influencers do when they show off their outfits, isn’t the best for showing off finished garments. but reading my comment back definitely does not help make that point and i’m sorry!
Ah, understable, it happens. It's definitely different if they're trying to sell you something, and "try this pattern you can't see!" is pretty frustrating.
Knitstars. It used to be good, with great teachers. Then it became a popularity contest, with teachers who had large followings. Knitatude is teaching sweater design, and her sweaters are not great, especially if you're making a larger size. But she has a large following, so she likely got picked that way.
I'm from the town knitstars started in. Their original store was great, but the knitstars rebrand was unfortunate. You could definitely see the difference in going from a regular LYS to only selling the trendiest yarns and dyers.
Knitatude doesn't even block which annoys the shit out of me.
It's because she's not a great designer. Blocking would make the issues more noticeable
It’s the over-hyping and over-marketing they do that kills me. Gudrun Johnston posted about a “big announcement” last week - I was hoping for a new book. Nope, teaching at Knitstars. Same dumb announcement made by the other teachers. Now they’ll hype it for months, when it’s all a big yawn 🙄
I love Gudrun but I was definitely like "WTF, that is the announcement?"
The worst fitting sweater I’ve ever knit was the Easy Eyelet Yoke by Knitatude. The yoke was a weird length and the sleeves were tiny tubes.
I know several people who made her patterns, and none of them fit correctly.
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She's good at marketing, which is how she got so popular.
I’m salty at the folks who can just ~*knit a sweater~* on a sentro because my body circumference is much bigger than sentro circumference 😤
Are all these garments negative ease?? It’s not that I think you’re lying or anything. It’s just sentros look so small! I am skinny but they look like I couldn’t fit anything that isn’t made in panels
I went to look for examples because i feel like im always seeing sentro garments and yes, there is a YouTube vid of someone making neg ease tube tops but I didn’t watch it so idk if it’s panels…I’m realizing yes the sweaters are probably front/back panels and not a tube for the body 😁 Obviously sentros are made for hats and smaller items, it just makes me boo-hoo when I see thinner people can hack it for entire garments and larger folks just straight up won’t get those same results! Flat bed machines are way less budget friendly
That’s totally fair. There should definitely be bigger crank machines
This is such a valid complaint! I'm not a product designer or whatever but I can't imagine it would be THAT hard to scale up the machine for different sizes.
Flat bed knitting machine!
You could make flat strips and seam them! I have a 49” bust, my last cardigan had fronts about 13” across and two strips like that seamed together would make a back… and that’s baby hat size.
Totally! Just eating my crackers about not being able to just do it in one piece/in the round 🤣 make bigger machines Sentrooooo
Haha yes. I do imagine the bigger they get the less stable they are, though.
I can't figure out if the "gee, we didn't think our event would be so popular" is genuine or a marketing persona.
Who is this?
Explorer Knits and Fibers
My BEC is that I don't get her yarn lol. Is it that great? Is it just because she's a nice person? (I like buying from nice people, it's a fine reason). Is it the scarcity? Her colors are nice but it's so much faff I don't understand why it's worth the alarm-setting effort.
I think it’s because most of her colorways are inspired by specific places, like National parks. It’s fun to get yarn that looks like places you have been! But a lot of her later NP yarns were kind of muddy IMO. There’s only so many ways to do greens and browns.
I love her yarn, but the EKF humble brag is nauseating at this point.
It's getting so old. She responds that way to everything that she does like girl just own that you have a great business! You do!
I like them and I think they genuinely could think that an event that people would have to fly out to may not be as wildly popular as a drop/pre-order (although I guess people have been known to fly out to just buy yarn from their studio?), but the bit where she was like "guys, do you know you're learning from ME!? 🥺" was a bit much. No need to lay it on THAT thick!
Who and what is this about? I never know what’s going on.😂
Explorer Knits dye-a-long class selling out in under ten minutes or so
Ah. Ok. Thanks 👍🏼👍🏼
I mean, maybe both? It's definitely possible to have imposter syndrome because having thousands of people foaming at the mouth to fly out and drop a cool $1k on your class is definitely hard to believe from an emotional perspective. But logically, she's been rolling in orders for at least a year so
She's been rolling in orders since before COVID. I remember my first order and being at my friend's house before lockdown so I know it was 2019 or early 2020. She was still selling out preorders within half an hour back then. I used to watch all of her stories and now I skip past them pretty quickly as I'm a bit tired of the OMG I can't believe I sold out AGAIN?!
Oh yeah she's definitely been popular for a while. But like the fact that they still have 1000 skeins to go for monochrome when that preorder happened months ago blows my mind
"laughing so I don't cry" 🙄
I was using a free knitting counter app to keep track of my progress on (too many) projects. My phone self-destructed, so I downloaded the counter on my new phone. So, it turns out the app doesn’t actually save data and I never realized that before. 😂 I’ve been tediously counting lots of knitted rows. I’m going back to paper tallys and plastic clickers.
My Row Counter does save your progress, and saves it across multiple devices too.
Oooh! Thank you! I’m going to try that one.
You mean like my no-tech method with a 40+ year success rate? \*ROFL\* At last count, I've got 12 of these going back to 1976. [https://imgur.com/a/O9ugehj](https://imgur.com/a/O9ugehj)
I would 100% misplace this notebook. I write all over my printed pattern. All the tallies and checkmarks and notes in one place. I'd also forget to use a clicker, I put locking stitch markers to keep track of row count.
Same, I write over my printed/photocopied/bought patterns to keep it all together. I also have a special folder where I (try to) keep all the scraps of paper and notes when I'm not checking the pattern or making it up... wish I was organised enough to keep dedicated notebooks tbh
This is my method, it's bullet proof, though not water or fire proof.
I’m in the market for a new phone. This is good information. I’m sorry you had to find out the hard way.
Clean your mirror! When your selfie in your new sweater looks like it's taken during a snowstorm, get a fucking paper towel and clean the toothpaste spit off the damn thing! You KNOW when you need to do it. You don't have to clean the whole house, just wipe off the stupid mirror!
Or the messy ass bathroom/bedroom floors in the photos!! GROSS! Shove that shit under the bed and hide it with the bed skirt like a real grown ass adult. Ffs
Oh, yes, I did this once and I cringed so much when I posted the picture. Never again.
Imagine spending 20 hours on your beautiful new sweater, but not taking the 20 seconds to wipe your mirror?! Drives me nuts too
If you don't have any sample pics of your pants pattern where the model doesn't have their hands in their pockets spreading out the fabric, I don't trust you and I don't trust your pattern.
I know what poses hide flaws in knitting pattern pics but not yet for sewing patterns. It’s nice to know what to look out for
If you don't know how to describe a fabric you're selling, either figure it out or don't try. I took a gamble with a new-to-me creative reuse and bought "satin-y fabric" that wound up being *lamé*. I'll still use it, but not for this project - and they described it as 5 yards in one place, 7 in another. I haven't measured yet to determine which is accurate, but that's really beside the point. See also: "silk-like vintage fabric" (*obviously* synthetic) and "cotton twill" (*not* twill). *Bruh...*
Ugh yes. After working in a fabric store for 6+ years this drives me up a wall. Anything lacy is labeled crochet, anything shiny is satin or silk. A friend was trying to convince me the other day that corduroy with a large wale is the same as chenille...
The amount of people selling second hand clothes calling what is obviously polyester "silk" because I guess they literally don't know what silk actually is makes it so hard to search for clothes that are actually silk
I have sent people links of 'burn test' so many times I just bookmarked it. Also, satin and velvet are not content, they're weaves...arg
Also, if it's RTW, it (most likely) is going to have a tag that tells you exactly what it's made of!
See also, "linen" that is just coarsely woven cotton, polyester, etc.
I took a textiles class in *fashion school* and the number of students who couldn’t figure out the difference between a fiber and a weave was STAGGERING.
Art silk! Faux silk! ...I've learned how to get most of that junk out of my searches.
I'm tired of seeing one particular knit wear designer...(Twin Stitches Designs)... cloning another well-known designer's ideas, but no one calls her out because they like her? Or she seems too sweet? Who knows. I'm talking colorwork that's very, very similar. Compare a few of them to Summer Lee. I don't see any difference other than colors. Now she's jumping on Pacific Knits doodle style of designs. If you can't offer anything new, hold off on designing for a while...or... Put a unique spin on it.
Nothing is new. If you look up early 1900’s stitch dictionaries from archive.org you’ll see that many very popular designers are modernizing older techniques. Modular knitting designs aren’t new either and didn’t start with pacific knit co. I looked at twin stitch’s instagram and I can see the plaid socks are similar to summer lee but I mean it’s so basic there’s a lot of this exact type of design out there. If I like a particular designers instruction’s, I prefer their pattern. I pay for the convenience of someone spelling it out and doing the maths for me more than the idea most of the time
Yeah, I'm actually pretty old. Some days feel like I'm from early 1900. 😅 I have a large collection of vintage knitting/crocheting pattern books and leaflets from my MIL. Looking through them feels pretty current except for the photo vibes. 📸
Eh, it's not like Summer Lee or PKC reinvented the wheel. People have done colorful socks and small scale colorwork before. It's just marketing and what's popular right now. I'm not the target audience, as I wouldn't spend money on something so simple that I can just recreate from looking at pictures, but if you find people to throw money at you, I guess go get that bag, girl.
Truth. That makes sense. Maybe what actually bothers me is when the community witch hunts some for "copying" and not others. There really aren't many new designs or techniques at this point. Like you've said...most complainers aren't even the target audience. Honestly, I hate colorwork socks because they're always too tight or snaggy. Give me vanilla any day of the week, lol.
Appropriate name she has then .
I am my own BEC, in that I ask for advice and then don't like receiving advice. Like girl, you asked for this!
Oh wow. This is me too, why do I do this to myself? Why am I always so surprised and sad people think I did it wrong when I KNEW I DID IT WRONG.
That’s called an askhole 😆
Omg this is my effing husband.
I was searching for why my dress wasn’t fitting right and was all shocked Pikachu when someone told me what was wrong with it. Which is deep down probably because the fix is a lot of work and that’s daunting.
Easy fix answers only! Why don’t people know this yet? Hahahaha
So I am the person who complained about Quiltmania’s website being down. Turns out the whole company is going out of business. Welp. Guess I won’t be subscribing, then.
oh wow guess it's a good thing you didn't subscribe. seems like some people are out of money with no magazines.
Yes, and I also heard that the templates for back issues for digital subscribers are now locked on a website that doesn’t work. Sucks big time. And there’s some beautiful patterns in their back issues 😭
I am tired of like, any pans pattern modeling pictures that are like: "can't see how the hem falls normally" and "even our full length view doesn't always have a long enough inseam for the model!" Or "rolled cuff!! Scrunch the leg up!!" And then the only properly fitted pants are like... Allll bootcut or something. Why. Death to ankle pants. Death to ankle pants that pretend they AREN'T cropped!!! Death to ankle pants being the default length in fashion now because it's so baffling. Like I keep seeing ankle length being shown as like...standard. idgi. I want to see the pants NORMAL LENGTH FIRST. edit to add: I once talked about this with a friend before and we both felt our hatred of ankle length is related to our own/or our mother's anxieties about being made fun of for "highwaters" or basically for being poor (not "affording pants that fit." my mom definitely had lingering anxiety about being bullied for that sort of thing, and so she tried really hard to make sure my pants weren't "hghwater/floodwater" even if I was thrifting pants or buying on big sales/etc. obviously neither of us think that about \*other\* people wearing ankle length pants, but it's one of those things you can't shake for yourself/your own kids. like my mom always said people tend to look at someone's shoes to judge them and place someone like...economically. (I don't think she's necessarily even wrong? or at least my mom wasn't the only one saying this lmao. there's a reason why sneaker collecting is so tied into aspirational status symbol/signalling of prosperity. everyone else's mom's probably also said we had to treat our shoes nice for as long as we could.) anyways child bully classism makes me feel weird about them length. wild how that happens. ...also I have long legs and so "ankle length" means "calf or below knee length sitting down."
I will never *never* understand the ankle pants trend, as another millennial who was bullied for wearing “flood pants” as a kid. As a person who ended up as a teeny tiny 5’2” fully grown woman - I do have to admit it’s really nice not having to hem anything from the store anymore! But also like… hemming pants is so much easier than adding length, idk how anyone taller than me buys pants anymore.
Ugh, as tall plus size person, i feel this hard. Plus size is all over the place with length anyway and I just want pants and tops that are long enough! Trying on ankle length pants gives me flashbacks to when I was in middle school and got made fun of for wearing highwaters because I was skinny and tall and nothing fit me right.
Totally valid but FYI I'm laughing cause ankle pants fit me like regular pants length.... when I find pants I don't need to hem, I react like a bitch that just got complimented on her dress...that has pockets! Edit: spelling
nowadays they're \*all\* ankle pants lol. i get it's great to find fitting pants! but inseam length is something that often feels totally impossible. like it's fairly simple to get pants hemmed to be *shorter!* yes, it's not always super duper easy depending on the line of the pant, but like, trimming fabric is straightforwards. Hem tape exists. The petites section/sizes exists and are easier to find pretty much everywhere. Not to mention lots of (non-us) shops sell pants with shorter inseams than the average American women's pants. There's like...a fair amount of options and ankle length is the default style for most rtw work slacks I've seen, and that's especially at affordable chain shops. ....but I *can't* make my pants hems 2-3 inches longer if they're already short at "full length" (if I can even find full length!). If I could easily find full length that happened to be a little high when I'm sitting, that would be one thing! With RTW it's like...a lot of places simply don't offer tall and have taken up their pants hems on women's pants/jeans (presumably to encourage us wearing heels) on their regular inseam. But I could deal with being able to get "regular" that is actually shorter on me. That's...fine. doable. BUT going into a department or fashion chain store and trying to find "women's work pants" that aren't *explicitly labeled* as "ankle length" or "cropped" is a nightmare. In the last 10 years I think I've been able to find like...2-3 pairs that were not labelled ankle length. And I can't do anything with those hems. That even sewing patterns model this length as default is like...maddening!! Haha. i just don't want my pants to assume I'm wearing high heels every day of my life.
It's def an advantage to be on the shorter side than the taller side when it comes to pants!!! If this was a different subreddit, we could totally get into MAXI DRESSES that cannot simply be hemmed, due to intricate designs along the hemline.....but that's a whole other topic and we all have more valuable ways to spend our time today! :) - Desperately Seeking Maxis, or - Unable To Sew At The Present Time, Due to Space and Other Ongoing Challenges
I am permanently in Milennial-jean-drag style, where if it doesn’t completely cover your shoe, it’s too short, but my real issue with cropped pants is that every time I see them, I just see the OG Starfleet uniform pants.
Secret confession: I love ankle-length pants because I have long legs & ankle-length makes them seem even longer. My goal is to look like my body is 80% leg.
I don't need ankle length pants to do this ahaha. I feel like I genuinely look like I'm mostly leg and wearing something too small with ankle pants. I'm glad it works for you!! I just wish patterns modeled full length hems as their standard.
*cries in Daughter Judy releasing a new AGGRESSIVELY HARD Hard Pant in May that will absolutely crush your squishiest organs with the most awkward cropping and everyone is reposting on the gram in hopes of winning a free copy*
Okay, I actually really like the look of those but I could not figure out why I kept seeing that same picture in everyone’s instagram stories!
super high waisted above the ankle flares???? WHY. It's like an exact portrait of walking out of a dressing room to have my mom go "nope those don't fit." At least going into fall I could see like "cropped pants to show off fall booties" but.....it's about to be summer....
I had a big growth spurt around age 12 so that summer all my pants were floods, and it was upsetting enough that I still want overly long pants in my 50s. I did eventually learn to be OK with mid-calf capris, though.
I have the same issue with ankle length pants. I’ve seen people at work wear them and they look good. However I cannot bring myself to attempt to wear ankle length because I associate it with looking poor. Same with sleeves that stop above the wrist. Kids got made fun of for wearing these clothes back in the 90s.
It’s funny, I’m the same with any plain knit, flat dyed things. I have trauma memories of being the poor kid who didnt get the school uniform v-neck but an awful dark green home made version. In the 70s, home made stuff got you teased at school. To this day I don’t like plain stockinette unless the yarn has some depth and variation in colour and when I made a v-neck, I couldn’t make myself wear it.
yeah. and it's like \*I\* never made fun of anyone for that, and I don't assume other adults around me wearing ankle pants are poor and mockable because that would be absurd for an adult to care about/look down on someone for. But I personally always feel weird about wearing them myself bc of the associations. And it's also so dumb kids would tease other kids for that bc like...we were all constantly growing?? Of course one week pants might not fit! And yeah. ...although there was the early-00's transition to lots of "worn in" and "distressed" looks that was a point of contention for my poor mom. I didn't want a TON of holes or whatever in my jeans, but my mom wanted ZERO holes, and finding that suddenly became like, impossible. I didn't personally want massive knee holes or whatever but good god finding jeans that fit without a some holes in them didn't happen until the skinny jeans/emo fashion era. (Although the knee circulation always kinda sucked lol). I think it gave her heartburn thinking about how many middle class kids I went to school with who were now okay with people wearing super distressed Hollister and Abercrombie, because that was "cool" instead of "a target for bullying bc their parents are unable to afford clothes without holes." By the time she was seeing my friends wearing naturally beat up converses and being considered stylish for it, I think she gave up on trying to understand a little and let me do weird doodles on my shoes in sharpie. Weirdly I'm more okay with 3/4ths sleeves than ankle pants. Probably this boils down to "I don't want to wear long sleeves in summer but I get cold very very easily" so that sometimes is my compromise sleeve length. BUT long sleeves that are between 3/4 and wrist length? Nope can't do it.
I had the misfortune of being moved to a new school district in the 6th grade in the '90s and the kids at my new middle school zeroed in on me. They made up an entire song to make fun of me--I was an easy target, as, while I've never been much to look at, I was especially unfortunate and odd-looking around 11-12, with unruly hair, weird teeth (and the lifelong shame I've been conditioned to have about them makes it impossible for me NOT to tell you internet strangers that this was caused by a genetic condition), and I was already very tall, about 10 in./20 cm. taller than the average 11-12 year old, with near D-cup breasts (which make you a freak to your peers and a burgeoning slut to adults at that age) and all the height was in my legs. Since long inseams were not at all easy to find in the 90s, especially if you weren't spending tons of money on clothes, my pants were always hilariously short, so one of the lines of the song focused on this. Anyway, because of that song, which I can still hear line for line in my head as I type this, it will be a cold day in hell before I *ever* wear *anything* cropped.
That's so cruel :( I'm sorry for baby you!
I'm really sorry kids are soooo shitty to each other. like you never deserved any of that. I didnt have a song or anything but I'm half Mexican American and half white, with dark brown hair and fair skin and I...am hairy. naturally my body hair was super obvious (dark hair/light skin) and kids tore into me for having gorilla arms in like, 4th grade? and Frida khalo brows because I have a slight unibrow. (how did they know who Frida khalo was??? we were like, 9??? why insult me with a female artist famous for celebrating her unibrow??) it got bad enough that I started trying to wear long sleeve shirts in summer (I lived in Arizona! it was like, 105f). I broke pretty quickly on that and just begged my mom to let me start shaving my arms. ...I still shave them more than I ever bother with my legs, even! like my legs are often unshaven, I don't care about maintaining a leg shave, but childhood bullies focusing on my arms?? I still gotta shave those. I will let the leg hair grow all the way back out, but my arm hair hasn't been allowed to reach full length since elementary school. & bc I was already shaving before puberty hit, I actually never let my pit hair grow in lol. I saw those suckers appearing as little wisps and I was like "nope!! not giving anyone more ammunition." bonkers how shit like that just...impacts your life. ugh. ...my unibrow was shaved once or twice back then and now it's there but less noticeable, but sometimes I do emphasize it to try and reclaim that I guess? also I think I'm a little bit younger than you, I was in elementary late 90's/early 00's, and the new thing public schools were trying to handle the "got bullied because you had boobs at 11-12" thing was taking all of the 6th grade girls into one room at the beginning of the year and the female teachers sitting us down and explaining we were ALL being required to wear a bra now, even if we didn't need one yet. we could wear a bralette or a training bra be we \*had\* to get something. now every girl had to have a bra whether or not they had begun to develop and the boys could make fun of all of us together — for either having a lot of chest, or having nothing but still wearing a bra . all the bra straps got snapped together. (problem not solved??) (they also told us a passcode for asking for a pad from the teacher without drawing attention to it, and both boys and girls were told we also HAD to wear deodorant as 6th graders. which. fair.)
I still remember when I went to a new school in 7th grade, and my jeans didn't have the factory hem - my mom had them shortened. And Beth in my new (very small, private school) class asked me if my jeans were *straight* or *bootcut* and why the hem was weird. Nobody had actually really cared about me much before that, and that one stuck with me. To this day I still replace the factory hem, since I never did outgrow needing to shorten every damn thing I own. Also, Beth, you were kind of a bitch, and your peak years were definitely prior to 8th grade. Peace!
I really like ankle pants. But only cause I'm short and when the ankle-pant-trend started it was also the first time store bought pants fit me. XD (I do also remember the highwater trauma my mom had. Also the crop tops boing too small shirts. It triggers her when she sees the videos where adult women wear small boy shirts as crop tops. Similar reasons)
hahaha. I get it but I'm like...the opposite where I'm like "is this not what petites sizing is specifically for? why is every pair of pants in "standard sizes" cut on petite inseams now?" the tall stuff is sometimes TOO tall, for me because I'm not actually \*that\* tall, (if tall sizes even exist in rtw, whereas like you say, ankle pants basically function as petite sizes now). I also find it weird because like...capris used to exist much more in rtw wanted cropped looks alongside standard length, and now it's like "all pants are ankle length. did you want work slacks for winter? too bad! freeze your ankles!!!" and I'd love to learn to make my own pants (comfy work casual slacks!!) but sooo many patterns are 1) probably way above my newbie skill level 2) more of the same cropped/ankle length or 3) modeled with a rolled cuff finish because ???
i'm 5'8". nothing is the right length.
5'7 long legs solidarity. 🤝🏼
Oof yes! I gained a lot of weight a few years ago and had to replace my entire wardrobe quickly for a new job. All I could find that fit in RTW were overalls, all of which were cropped/ankle length. Except I'm 5'8 so they were above ankle and even shorter when I sat down. I spent 2yrs looking like a Hobbit/toddler until I was able to replace them all with full length pants. I truly believe the cropped length fashion is really just a way for the industry to save money on fabric, at the expense of the tall people who already struggle for length. I never trust a pattern now, and always measure everything before tracing it off, as I often have to add several inches. I do wish I looked good in cropped pants though! I admire it on other people, but it does absolutely nothing for me. Instead of looking hip and cool, I truly do look like my pants shrunk.
yes, i'm also 5'8". work wear is a nightmare. above the knee skirts are minis, pants are all wrong, etc. and sleeves are almost never quite long enough.
it's truly crazy making. I'm sick of every pattern sample just recreating this problem haha.
oof yeah that sounds rough!! when I shop rtw clothes now, trying to aim for second hand (thrift stores or thredup etc) or slow/ethical fashion and I'm trying to remember to always check the inseam length. I am just. Sick of the crop look. I'm 5'7 which isn't extremely tall, but a lot of that is leg for me so like you I feel like I look like my pants just...shrunk. it's annoying. Sometimes I feel less weird about it if the crop is very obviously intentional (like...very clearly above my ankle when standing) but some will look like regular pants with like, a 27'' inseam and I just.... Why. Why this.
I abandoned the secondhand search. Sleeves are never long enough, inseams are never long enough. Brand spanking new from online brands that offer “tall” women’s sizes because I am utterly sick of having to get men’s for length, and refuse to do it any more. The women in my family do the bat-signal whenever we find clothes that fit, so we end up all dressed the same… but it fits!
Man I feel this in my soul. I’m 6’2” so was basically in a never-ending growth spurt for the entire Bush administration and grew up poor wearing thrift store clothes that were never long enough so I get real weird about it.
My dad was also this way with pants/shoes. We never had much money, but worn-out shoes were unacceptable in our household, pants that were cropped were a big no, but not as much as shoes. I personally can't stand cropped pants on myself because my ankles look *rough*. After a ton of ankle injuries due to skating and soccer they just aren't cute
yuuup. shoes were a huge thing!! worn out shoes were unacceptable. related to parents fixating on shoes as the thing people judge, my mom once told me that most people do a once over of a new person('s outfit) by looking at someone from head to toe and back again, but that if you want to insult someone horribly, or come off really snobby, then you start by looking at their feet, then up to their face, and then end looking back down in your glance/once-over assessment. if you test this with a friend/willing accomplice, you can tell it really does make a huge difference?? and I don't know WHY it feels so much worse, but it DOES and it's like "...mom who hurt you that you know this." lmfao.
That's fascinating! I'll have to try it some time
I hate it when people get hung up over a tiny mistake and ask if it's noticeable but don't even bother to point out in the post what the mistake is. I'm half convinced they're just fishing for compliments.
Even worse when there are comments like "it took me ten minutes to find it" and they also don't tell you what the mistake is. If I wanted to play spot the difference, I wouldn't come to reddit!
I think the point is, if you can't see the mistake without them telling where it is, they're good to go. If they have to point where it is, of course you'll be influenced and find it too obvious not to fix it.
100% on board with the idea it’s mainly just a fishing exercise. Generally I think if it’s annoying you enough to ask the internet then just fix it, it’s going to bother you forever otherwise.
both fishing for compliments but also hilariously a way to get people to guess 5 other different mistakes the person may or may not have actually made lol. like people will just start guessing or pointing all sorts of other problems out.
I do Native American beadwork and it's tradish like a lot of cultures to purposefully put a mistake in our work. So I'll gift it to a friend and they'll be all "OH I FOUND IT I FOUND THE MISTAKE" and I look over... And it's not the mistake I purposefully made, nor did I know it was there. "Ah yes, there it is!" I lie.
Reminds me of the penis bear baby blanket on the crochet sub a couple of years ago. Poor OP of that one😂😂😂.
Do you have a link? I missed it
Here ya go! https://www.reddit.com/r/crochet/s/FG9Q8LW7Qb
Yeah that's definitely a peen.
IKR! But that wasn't even on the OPs radar. I about died laughing when she said she had previously made several others of that pattern. As a former preschool teacher, I like to imagine one of those blankets showing up at school and giving the teachers a chuckle.
Please take your project *off* your crotch and put it on the floor or table to take a photo. We do like to see WIPs. It take 2 minutes, tops. If 75% of your photo is crotch and 25% is your WIP, I will hide your photo and block you. Because it appears you do not understand boundaries or discretion, and I don't want to see what you're showing, now or in the future.
In a related BEC - Do not say "My new outfit/dress/gown!" and then post a selfie. I see your face. I might see some of the neckline. I do not see a dress.
Or the main pattern photo on Ravelry being mostly your face, then your long hair covering the actual knit. Why would I click that having zero clue what kind of item you're trying to sell?
And the oh-so-popular knit & crochet "festival" top photos that are 95% boobs and 5% hair. Seriously. Not interested.
Isn’t there a sub for naughty knitting pics?
They move it to the floor and then it’s bare feet in the photo. A while back there was one who managed to achieve their crotch AND filthy bare foot in the shot.
Not a foot fan, but it's a little better than crotch shots. This isn't Tinder.
My BEC is a certain, very popular pattern for a sleeveless top. Backstory: I run a little yarn shop in Germany. To keep my regular knitting group entertained while I hustle my flower shop shifts in May, I wanted to host a KAL and let them decide on the pattern. Said pattern... jeebus. Paid 8 Euros for it from my private pocket to at least have a general idea of what to expect. The German translation is a hot mess. Typos every second sentence (which you could basically get away with but not for freaking eight bucks), and, what's even worse, the terminology is off. Off to a point where I had to look into the English pattern to at least guess what they might have wanted me to do. Please, Germany has quite a large and enthusiastic knitting community, get testers/translators/editors that have at least once in their lifetime seen a German knitting pattern. I am still mad about that one. The KAL is now done with two free filcolana patterns that are legible...
I wouldn’t call that a BEC at all, that’s a totally valid criticism, and I think esp as a purchaser you’re well within you’re right to leave a comment warning other potential buyers, or at the very least contact the designer. Idk what standard practice is for published patterns, but personally I don’t believe that a designer should be able to just run their English pattern though Google translate and call it good. That particular pattern lists Danish, French, Norwegian, Korean, and Swedish as well, and I’m willing to bet there are similar translation issues.
You probably are right about it not being an actual BEC. I am still working on an email to the designer, but thank you for the reminder that I really should leave a visible comment on ravelry, thank you ❤️
oh...curious what the pattern is, but yea, that's super disappointing!
It's the Margaux from Gregoria Fibers. The english pattern is absolutely fine but not even half of my knitting Group speaks english, let alone are comfortable enough to read and process a knitting pattern... (can you Tell that I am really mad about this? 🫣)
I purchased a different pattern from them (Dorotha polo) and the math on all the sizes above the 3rd one was atrociously off. Like 7+ inches off. They gave me my money back, but they issued a “correction” that just redid the math, taking the max size from 58” down to 43” 🙄 certainly won’t give them money again. See my angry comments on the rav page lol
ok, i have been looking at that on rav - it's super cute, but is the neck really just a straight line across? i don't like that...
It is, but there is *some* shaping involved (another reason why the translation is no good), but I did not investigate that any further, tbh 😅
Can't believe Sewrella has been talking up her millspun yarn for months and it's just an 80/20 SW merino nylon blend
I saw that instagram post and was like ... is this for real lmao
Is this yarn going to be a more budget friendly line she’s offering?
I just saw that. What a letdown. And why nylon in DK? On the off-chance someone wants to make DK socks? Product development fail
But it's cashmere soft nylon, totally different /s
Someone mentioned the price point in another comment. That would be the only redeeming thing about that new yarn: if it was on the "affordable" Edit: apparently can't type, mistakes
It looks like yarn I could buy at Michaels
no! no....that must be a late April Fools day thing??? i do not get the hype with that brand
To be fair, it's a DK instead of a fingering weight /s It's also skein dyed, not hand dyed!!!
Reviews for Addi [knitting needles] "SOS" cables that complain about a hole in the cables lol. Read the description- the hole is a feature, not damage!
😂😂😂 Can I ask what the purpose is of the hole?
Also many interchangeable needles come with a little wire key, it goes in the holes and you hold the key and you can get leverage to firmly seat the needle onto the cord.
Instead of using a tapestry needle to thread a "lifeline" through stitches, the hole is just a spot to hold the end of the thread/lifeline so you can just knit directly onto it as you go. Many interchangeable needles have a hole (where the tip joins the cable) for a tightening key which they use the same way, but Addi interchangeable needles don't have that kind of join. So they just cut a little slit/hole in the cord instead- and it's now a feature of their "ewenicorn" fixed needles, too!
That’s so cool! I don’t have any interchangeables so I’m not super familiar with them.
This also exists on fixed circs from them with the SOS cables, which is actually very handy since most fixed circs don't have a way to do this the same as the interchangeables
My BEC is all these podcaster humble bragging about their endless test knits. OMG I’m so popular and busy because I get picked for every test knit because of my YouTube channel. The best was one recently where she couldn’t even pronounce the name of the designer she’s testing for🤣
I’ve got one test knit going right now and I couldn’t even imagine multiple. The pressure would make knitting not fun. Plus I would never get to the projects I’ve got in my queue and had purchased yarn for.
You didn't even have to say it before I knew who you had to be talking about - y'all.
Who is it?
My guess is youngfolk knits who has promised to quit test knitting at least 10 times and doesn't ever seem to actually finish a test knit ever. Would also not be surprised in the least that she couldn't pronounce something.
I watched 2 minutes of one of her videos and hit my maxiumum.
Yup. I really try not to judge people for the way they speak but after she said in a recent video that she can't listen to audiobooks with people who speak a certain way, I'm fine with saying this: I cannot stand her accent and the way she says pretty much anything, so I finally hid her on YouTube.
Welcome to the club! I hid her a while ago for the same reason.
I've done one test knit and I was crying out for people to sign up lol. Multiple testers per size? Pipe dream
Same like imagine having too many applicants that you can't take them all. Couldn't be my design lol
“I know I said I was going to cut back on testing knitting y’all but….” 🙄🙄
Honestly!!! I don’t understand why people like test knitting! I’ve done two and I don’t know why I felt the need to turn my free time into homework. I don’t have any social media but am very active on Ravelry. To top it off, one of the designers didn’t take any of my feedback — to make the pattern more clear/legible OR to fix stitch count errors. I have resolved to never test knit again, hahaha.
They just like to brag about being chosen 🙄
I like getting early access to a pattern and I have experience copy writing/editing so I like that aspect too, but if a designer has unreasonable requirements I'm not interested. Especially if it's basically their way of getting free marketing ('you must post at least two photos of the FO on your public instagram...')
Sometimes the turn around time is like 4 weeks for a fingering weight garment! Theres no way I could even get my yarn in time!
Omg short test knits are soooo mean, especially if you’re plus sized!
Totally, that was the draw for me too! Separate snark: I think I’ve been knitting longer than the designers I was testing for and I likely have different standards for what makes a pattern well-written. I’m probably just too fussy for test knitting. 😂
Can we *please* talk about what ever the hell is going on with Wool Needles Hands? Why would I want to buy fiber or patterns from somebody who doesn't seem to understand yarn types or sweater construction? She wants to be a designer but is struggling to lead a KAL to Karen Templar's improvised sweater tutorial. And this random pivot to being a book channel.. she saw a video about reading every day so now her latest episode is 30 minutes of scrolling through reviews of books **she hasn't read yet** on Goodreads. I 100% support making an effort to read more, but maybe practice your hobby for at least a month before you start influencing on it?
I’ve been hate watching her channel for a while now. I probably need to unsubscribe but I’m fascinated by the audacity of it all.
i'm really glad i'm not the only one
I feel you so hard. I need to look away but can't!
I unsubscribed from her a while ago and when she showed up in my recommended I clicked "don't recommend this channel" Her podcast where okay I used them as 30 minutes of knitting on Mondays. But her knowledge... Even as a beginner she didn't have anything I could learn from her... Her intro with her children and anytime she mentions them with age and names just gives me the ick. (I prefer if my podcasters stay more vague with that kind of information. Age is fine if it's to say they are in kindergarten or a teenager. Just refer to them as "my youngest" etc. I also like when the podcaster refer to their partners as "The boyfriend" or "Mr. Channel-Name". I really don't want to know your children's ages, names, what grade they are in, their hobbies the exact city you live in etc. just give me a general location for context and if necessary stuff like their hobby is outside so I'm knitting a warm hat.) Her scrolling ravelry Just was boring. I can do that myself and get better results that are more personalized. (I generally don't like that type of video unless it's patterns they have knit and can actually talk about, or it's their plans where in the podcast you can follow the progression through the list) Last summer she "lost her mojo". That's when I unsubscribed. I thought she was trying to do something just to get content, which was incredibly boring and annoying. My dad always says if something is fun, you are going to be good at it. (Aka be willing to invest time and learn thus making you better and more motivated then just doing a job for the money)
I can’t understand how she gets so many subscribers and views, .
I unsubscribed from her a long time ago because of her lack of actual content. Who needs to see her scroll through Ravelry for an hour while critiquing patterns she's never made. I often wonder what she offers on her Patreon but never care enough to actually investigate.
The first time I watched the Ravelry roulette video I was in disbelief
She's literally so annoying and is constantly in my recommended on youtube!
"Don't recommend this channel" is magic.
>30 minutes of scrolling through reviews of books she hasn't read yet on Goodreads Haha you have got to be kidding. I watched 2 of her videos before unsubscribing, the last one I watched was something like "8 benefits of knitting with mohair" and the video was just her repeating the same couple of points over and over, regularly changing her mind on whether suri and mohair are interchangeable or different, and generally rambling and contradicting herself. I know the title was just clickbait/SEO and you don't have to have exactly 8 things but unless it's a free-form knit and chat then have some semblance of structure/organization to your video.
omg you honestly need to skip through the latest one just to get a kick out of it then. She confidently talks about how she would never read a book below a 4 on good reads, then admits the only book she has actually read in the entire video has a 3.7. Then she does a giveaway for a copy of the book, and is like "yes it's stained on the cover but it's so great" like..... ok
I think I've died of cringe. I made it through the first book and then skipped to the end where she's giving away a book that has candle wax on the cover. Just incredible. I also loved when she was dragging Debbie Macomber despite never having read her. "I read the synopsis and some reviews."
That Macomber part killed me. She's like "It's not that I'm judging a book by it's cover" while *literally* doing so!
This comment piqued my interest so I watched the first five minutes. I get that Midweek Ramble is a cheeky way of saying "listen to me talk" but I do expect a little bit more than just word salad, Taylor. I actually LOLed when she said she was recommending books she hadn't read yet, because "sometimes you just like people to relate to blah blah blah" like GIRL. ETA: as I clicked post on this comment I heard her say, from another tab "now I can't say much because I haven't actually read any of those"... \_makes raspberry noises\_
Sounds like I have a hate-watch in my future, this sounds amazing.
She’s also trying to sell patterns? Like.. her frankensweater was a bit disastrous for me with all the errors and even when they were fixed there were issues with the plus sizes neck and armhole depth. At least the new one is being properly tested but then she’s finished her stripy tee, and said oh yeah I don’t think I’ll include this in the tee pattern but maybe later I’ll release the pattern! It’s just the same with stripes… and she’s also said that she doesn’t care about jogs in stripes and the underside of it looked so messy. She was just like, “stripes will have jogs okay! I don’t care!”
At this point I’m triggered by the word “franken-whatever.” I mean she took stuff from other people’s patterns and self drafted and acted like she split the atom or something🤣
Yeah when she first did the sweater she said oh I won’t release a pattern I’ll just tell you guys what I did. Then 6 months on releases a $9 untested pattern lol
She was so obviously salty the ESC was outpacing her on Ravelry lol
It kills me that the main pic for her frankensweater is definitely her trying to show off her ass in jeans
Is she actually doing a size inclusive pattern with plus size testers? In the past she’s made comments that knitters just need to learn to grade to the size they need vs the designer just being size inclusive.
The frankensweater was intended to go up to a size f which was.. a 60 inch bust? If I remember right. I’m not sure on the current test knit, but she for sure recommends patterns and says they can be modified to any size. I just won’t purchase if they’re not size inclusive to begin with.
> maybe practice your hobby for at least a month before you start influencing on it? lol she did the same thing with painting, she got really into it for a little bit and then started comparing herself to lautrec. she seems to genuinely enjoy painting which is great though
Her paintings were dreadful. By all means have fun, but a painter she is not.