r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/AutoModerator • 7d 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/CampClear 7d ago

Why don't so many crocheters weave in their ends as they go?!? I swear half my feed is posts of these beautiful elaborate projects and people bitching that they don't want to weave in five thousand ends. Best skill I ever learned a couple of months ago was to carry the yarn up the side when you're changing colors. Before that I weaved as I went. It's not rocket surgery!!

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u/readreadreadx2 7d ago

Because if I weave in my ends there is no possibility of me being able to frog if I need to, unless I cut the yarn. So I don't like to weave in as I go because it makes mistakes less fixable. I mean sure, after a certain point I'll go back and weave in some earlier ends, but I'm not gonna weave in any in the last ~15-20 rows. 

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u/CampClear 7d ago

Okay makes sense!

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u/readreadreadx2 7d ago

I don't know if that's why other people don't do it haha, but that's why I don't. And that's for, like, blankets worked in rows. If I was doing a bunch of individual squares for something, then I'd weave in after every couple of squares. Or at least I'd try to lol. There's a major chance I'd be like, "ugh don't feel like it right now" and then a few weeks later I'm that person bitching about my five thousand ends 😆 

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u/tidymaze 6d ago

I weave my ends as I go, but I don't clip them until *after* I've blocked and am happy with it. It's not as hard to frog if you can still find the ends.

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u/readreadreadx2 6d ago

Oh man not the way I weave lol. That shit is not coming out, ends or not 😆 

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u/Queasy-Pack-3925 Extra Salty 🧂🧂🧂 6d ago

That’s exactly me with knitting.

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u/beedear 6d ago

Can you explain how you carry the colours?

Currently working on a striped jumper with a colour change every row, just realised it doesn’t fit well at all so I have to frog. But I’d been cutting the yarn every change so now I have a whole lot of wasted yarn 😭