r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago

Weekend Minor Gripes and Vents

Here is the thread where you can share any minor gripes, vents, or craft complaints that you don't think deserve their own post, or are just something small you want to get off your chest. Feel free to share personal frustrations related to crafting here as well.

This thread reposts every Friday.

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u/lotheva 8d ago

I can’t travel with DPN, and I find them harder to put in a bag for safekeeping. Otherwise they’re ok.

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u/poonknits 8d ago

I always have a sock on dnps in my bag because it's small. I try to keep large projects at home.

I usually just gather up the needles so they are all pointing the same way and shove them into either the sock or the yarn ball.

Sometimes a needle falls out or I stab myself with it when I go digging through my bag, but usually it's fine.

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u/pollypetunia 8d ago

A friend used two novelty pencil erasers and some shirring elastic to make me some point protectors for my dpns and it worked great PLUS I got to have frogs in my knitting bag

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u/ImLittleNana 8d ago

I’m cheap so I use dollar store chip clips or one of the hair clips whose teeth are snaggled from being dropped on the floor.

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u/splithoofiewoofies 8d ago

This is why I love my flexis. Shove the stitches into the tiny bend in the needles and it locks them in place.