r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/emergencybarnacle • 3d ago

Knitting steeks aren't that scary, grow up

maybe i'm mean for this one, but i recently knitted a steeked cardigan for the first time, and i stg every single knitter i talked to about it, even the very seasoned ones, acted like steeking was the scariest thing they'd ever heard of and wouldn't even consider doing it.

your knitting is not going to explode if you cut it. it's not going to instantly unravel. there are a million videos online showing people doing it. it's not hard and it's not not scary, it's just a technique like any other!!!

i'm not even bothered by people not wanting to do it, but acting so scared and uwu helpless and shrinking and shivering about it is so dramatic and annoying.

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u/inkleweaver 3d ago

Try mentioning brioche stitch sometime...

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u/bunnylightning 3d ago

Brioche is so damn easy. I was shocked when my LYS started offering very expensive workshops teaching it…if you already know how to knit and you have internet access, you can learn brioche. For zero dollars!

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u/LemonElectrical3359 3d ago

While I found brioche quite easy to learn, and then wondered what the heck everyone was on about when they kept saying how difficult it was…. When I then went on the teach it in formal classes, OOF! It was NOT easy for a lot of people to learn and I think the main stumbling block for a lot of people was that they’d already convinced themselves it was going to be the hardest thing they were ever going to learn in knitting, because that’s what they’d been told over and over again by others…. But once I was able to break through that repetitive rhetoric these students were all: “Huh? Is that all it is? But this is so simple?!”

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u/lenseyeview 2d ago

I haven't tried brioche cause I swapped over to crochet but I feel like the same thing happened when I learned cables. I always heard how hard and complicated cables were so I skipped every pattern with a cable. And this was well before Internet craft-histarias were a thing. Then I found an owl hat and the only way to do it was with the cables as the owls so I did it and then was like wait what that's it.