🤝 Community Knitwits in the Fiber Arts Hobby - Drama in the fiber arts

Otterly said:
That’s the other thing they always screech about - the yarn’s too expensive. Which it is tbh, but it’s the difference in yardage between small sizes and huge ones. It must cost a fortune to make a sweater that big
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It seems like the pattern she used also had 10+ colors of lace weight mohair yarn plied together at different intervals to create a smooth gradient. That will absolutely add to the price.

I don't think yarn is 'too expensive' yarn can be purchased at the dollar store and you can make things within your budget. But my goodness, nobody at that size is allowed to bitch about the price. Yeah, its costing a lot to make a fucking circus tent out of mohair. Who would've thought.

Also I think her sweater is fine. Theres mistakes in it but it looks perfectly wearable, but her skills aren't like, so good that her using many plies of expensive yarn in an advanced colorwork pattern is the way to compensate for her lack of technical precision. That and its such a basic bitch sweater of a smooth stitch that literally any mistake is going to stick out like a sore thumb.
 
I was curious about that too, so looked at the website of the dyer. They're no longer selling the base used, but going off similar on the site, it'd be at least $400, probably closer to $500+.
 
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Max 76" bust?! :stress:

(And yet, still too small for Jaimie Weisberg. Grim.)
 
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Oshen Fibers yarn is like 30$ a skein. Assuming she only used kne skein per color (unlikely), thats like, 300$ dollars minimum but because the yarn is plied woth multiple strands im going to say with two skeins per color is 600$.

Probably should've just used Diablo.
 
So i doubt a sweater is someones first pattern and honestly? Its lunacy expensive but she isnt complaining about price. So.. Not my wallet.

And yes there are definitely mistakes in the knit and the fit is .. Not great. I suspect and i am not a good knitter by far that she sized to her waist and did not know how to adjust going up so her shoulders werent halfway down her arm. But i cant tell you how to do that either. (How would you, at any size actually handle larger hips than tits for a sweater?)

Ngl .. Let her knit and be happy. I see a cow but not a lolcow here. (Shes fat but shes not behaving poorly so...) And yes i know where i am but like, i could post decades of dumb shit from ravelry that just because you did didnt mean you should have. Acrylic yarn crochet bikinis in 6x yall.
 
TooManyKittens said:
How would you, at any size actually handle larger hips than tits for a sweater?
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You'd add in decreases through the front and back, just a few per row and several rows apart to make it less obvious. So that by the time you're at the shoulders they measure the same as your shoulders.

But that definitely requires a lot of math and swatching to make sure you're doing it right. Probably frequently ripping back too, which is a bitch with mohair (sometimes not actually possible with it because the fuzz acts like velcro). It's not hard, but it can be tricky. If that makes sense.

Most off the rack sweaters for fats have the same fit problem because there's just too many ways for fat to accumulate. I think the fit is fine for her size. It's not oversized and it's not undersized. I'd have made the sleeves a bit shorter, but maybe she likes sleeves hanging over her hands. I'd also have made the torso longer, but I like long shirts and sweaters.

The fades between colors is really well done, especially with mohair, which as said is tricky to fix mistakes in.

The only real critique I have is the tension. But unless she's trying to submit to the state fair isn't going to be a big deal. I've seen worse. Hell, I've done worse!
 
TooManyKittens said:
Ngl .. Let her knit and be happy. I see a cow but not a lolcow here. (Shes fat but shes not behaving poorly so...) And yes i know where i am but like, i could post decades of dumb shit from ravelry that just because you did didnt mean you should have. Acrylic yarn crochet bikinis in 6x yall
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I’m not saying this woman herself is a cow. I’m saying that the knitting community on Reddit is one huge cow because this woman got hundreds of comments for this poorly knitted sweater just because she’s fat. Normal sized women are lucky to get a dozen comments on things that are well constructed.

But these are the people who also say crafting isn’t inherently political because they can make a pattern that spells out fuck ice
 
burntgrilledcheese said:
Do we have a fiber arts/sewing sharing thread? I swear I've tried searching but I can't find one. Should I start one for us to sperg about all of our fiber crafting adventures and interest?
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I’d like one specifically for sewing! That’s the only fiber arts hobby I actually do myself.

It’s relatively drama-free, too. All the most unhinged online behavior seems to revolve around crochet and knitting, I never really see anything about sewing unless it’s historical costume adjacent (those people deserve a thread of their own).
 
Liber Nihil said:
I’d like one specifically for sewing! That’s the only fiber arts hobby I actually do myself.

It’s relatively drama-free, too. All the most unhinged online behavior seems to revolve around crochet and knitting, I never really see anything about sewing unless it’s historical costume adjacent (those people deserve a thread of their own).
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Omg yes, any costuming (cosplay, historical, stage, etc) gets the big dramas lol. I love quilting, and the most quilting drama I see is small bickering between ridgid old heads who insist there's only one way to do everything and everyone else lol.
 
FarmVille said:
These people are so far up their own ass

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There’s a game I’m playing right now from a Chinese manufacturer that uses AI in a couple things. Places I think makes sense, puzzles (jigsaw type puzzles) and translating chats. The discord is constantly melting down about it - yet none of them are actually quitting the game - and they keep having chats deleted because they’re all retards. It’s hilarious to watch.

Makes me want to use AI more. I DO wish Facebook had a report item for bullshit ai slop farmers and bots. But making a better user experience? FACEBOOK? lol forever
 
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Wouldn’t AI help speed up writing patterns? Maybe not for the first draft, but for expanding to other sizes and other tasks? It seems perfect for calculations like that. I’ve seen people bitch about scam AI patterns, but in the right hands and fed the right data, it could be innovative and useful. There’s a difference between publishing a pattern based on a prompt that took two minutes to write, and using it as a tool.
 
Trapper said:
Wouldn’t AI help speed up writing patterns? Maybe not for the first draft, but for expanding to other sizes and other tasks? It seems perfect for calculations like that. I’ve seen people bitch about scam AI patterns, but in the right hands and fed the right data, it could be innovative and useful. There’s a difference between publishing a pattern based on a prompt that took two minutes to write, and using it as a tool.
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I'd guess if you used it like a tool and gave it specifics to extrapolate from (eg, rows and stitches per inch, stitch counts and chest circumference for smallest and largest sizes, number of sizes or inches between sizes) but you may need to custom create formulae for a non basic top down raglan.... so it's probably easier to plot out by hand.
 
Trapper said:
Wouldn’t AI help speed up writing patterns? Maybe not for the first draft, but for expanding to other sizes and other tasks? It seems perfect for calculations like that. I’ve seen people bitch about scam AI patterns, but in the right hands and fed the right data, it could be innovative and useful. There’s a difference between publishing a pattern based on a prompt that took two minutes to write, and using it as a tool.
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I’ve never seen any examples of AI written patterns. Does anyone have one to show me, even if it’s a scam or fake. I’m interested.
 
Otterly said:
I’ve never seen any examples of AI written patterns. Does anyone have one to show me, even if it’s a scam or fake. I’m interested.
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You can find people complaining about them and linking to them by googling AI knitting pattern etsy. You have to read a lot of whining though. Before everyone went insane there was fun collaboration going on between AI researchers and knitters, sometimes by AI researchers who are knitters. If AI can write code of course it can write patterns. I expect the issue with published AI generated patterns is that sellers are generating patterns without testing them, and I also think part of the issue is probably the ongoing jeetification and collapse of etsy.
 
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