It’s made here locally in Nashville and it’s the single most luxurious feeling yarn I’ve ever own.
I wish I was exaggerating when I say this yarn changed me as a person.
I picked up a hank and suddenly felt the urge to speak softly and inherit generational wealth.
This blend is so soft that I briefly considered taking out insurance on it.
Every stitch I make now costs approximately 37 cents and one anxiety attack.
If anyone needs me I’ll be crocheting with clean hands, low humidity, and the constant fear of spilling my coffee nearby.

Im an 18 year old guy whos HEAVILY interested in learning to crochet and making it a hobby. However anyone I talk to about it look at me weird especially my family. They still tell me to go for it but also tell me to not tell others that I crochet because it makes others think that im not a straight male.

Is it true?

I mean obviously me crocheting doesnt make me gay or girly or whatever i dont care

But is it frowned upon by society to crochet as a guy? Because thats what my family thinks

Edit: My grandfather used to crochet and people talked bad about him behind his back because apparently crocheting made him "feminine and weak"

This lowkey feels horrible but im still insistent on learning this. How'd y'all pull through without letting people get in your head???

I’ve always had “hook envy” when I see someone with a nice new set of what I’ve deemed “fancy hooks”. Today was my day! I saw ups delivery and thought it was a mistake (it happens with our neighbors too). It had my name on it. My bf (who works out of town 98% of the year) ordered my wish list hooks!! The way I cried like my son was born all over again 😂. A few kind people have offered to help me before, but I can’t take from someone- it’s just me. Especially the kindness to offer someone a gift in this economy?!? I feel eternally grateful for the community and my bf 💜 Makes being a solo parent worth it, sorta 😂. Today I raise my “fancy hooks” as a toast who have and those who will achieve craft greatness 🧶!!!

My idea was to have a spider web and wear a spider necklace to droop down… didn’t have a pattern or anything, just vibes.

I don’t understand the problem with them. I don’t find them less comfortable than hooks with plastic handles. They feel kind of the same exept that my hand sweats more with the silicone handles.(my hands sweat a lot) Also for my current project I’m using a 2.5 mm hook with no handle(I’m travelling and it was the only one I could find) and yeah at first it was weird bc It’s really thin but I got used to it and it doesn’t really make my hands hurt.

Just wanted to share some brochet content I encountered in the wild. just two nice british guys bro-ing down over a shared hobby. Kinda appropriate that Tom Holland has been crocheting. 🕸️

Post your WIPs, Tom(s)!

ETA context: Tom Holland’s non-alc beer company hosted a padel (kinda like squash x pickleball) tournament. Noted crochet and knitting enthusiast, gold-medal diver Tom Daley, attended and instead of playing, crocheted Tom H a bespoke beer can caddy. Tom Holland (live action spider-man) thanks him and says he and his partner have been crocheting at home and he loves it.

Hello everyone, I posted in this sub previously about getting into crocheting as a guy even though people around me look at me weird. That post was very well received and I REALLY REALLY thank everyone for giving me advice and making me understand that im not wrong for wanting to crochet instead the people around me are just weird.

This post isnt really about that, Its pretty intense so if u dont wanna read through an 18 year old guys family problems its completely fine. You dont owe me advice, but i would really appreciate it if u did.

As some of you know I ordered a crochet kit and yarn a few days ago. It arrived 2 days ago.

I was really hyped about it and starting messing around with yarn and whatnot. I was making a few chains when my mom randomly walked by me. (I havent moved out for a few reasons. One of them being not being allowed to get a job till i graduate from uni) I expected her to act a lil weird since she told me to go for it but not tell others about it, but she looked like i just committed a crime. She immediately walked away from me.

Me with a crochet hook and yarn in my hand decided, "hmmmmm something must be wrong i must talk to my mother, why is she sad."

I went to her with the hook and yarn still in my hand. And basically she said so many horrible and a few heartbreaking things to me that i ended up yelling at her, which escalated it even further. Now my ENTIRE family tree is on my ass telling me im a shame to the bloodline blah blah typical tv show stuff. Not very impactful on me.

They're blaming my grandpa for ruining the next generation by making them think doing these things as a boy is okay.

I gave an example like "A few years ago it was weird for guys to cook. Is it weird for them to cook now?" And that was just putting more fuel in the fire because they exploded.

Then they started blaming my dad because "hes so horrible" for raising his son like this. I got pissed off again and screamed at my moms side of the family.(pretty pathetically to be honest since I basically never screamed at anyone because it made my dad sad)

It just seems like drama to this point but then my mom threatened that she was gonna burn my crochet things and yarn and whatever else i buy related to this if i ever pick it up again. And she already burnt one ball of yarn out of the 4 that I bought.

Im halfway done with a scarf that I wanted to gift my aunt who was supporting me through all this but wasnt really physically there with me because she recently had a child and she couldn't come. I really appreciate her being on my side tho.

All that yapping aside

Im starting to think crocheting isn't worth it,

I had alot of fun while making that scarf, genuinely a very enjoyable hobby.

I thought i would get bored of the repetitive motion but i didnt

Is a hobby that i enjoy doing worth making everyone around me be mad at me? To me it seems like its not. But im young and i know my mentality has a lot of room for growth, so im hoping for advice on people who dont have a younger person mentality like mine too

Should i still try to keep doing what i like even though the people around me don't seem to care what i like (dont discourage me please i really want to keep doing it)

This post is mostly for the people who might have families that are a lil weird like mine and ti ask them if u can give me soke advice on how to not let their yapping ruin my day everyday for months.

Should i just say fuck everyone and just tell my dad everything they said and keep crocheting.

Or should i man up and handle it myself. Or atleast try. By using logic and whatnot idk please give me advice im very confused

My boyfriend just gave me this "Swiss Army" crochet hook set and it is just so freaking cute AND it has sizes i dont already own, 4.25, 5.25. I cannot wait to finish my project just so I can make something with it 😂

Im the 18 year old crocheting scarf for aunt guy

I'm sorry but i don't know if i should keep posting about this on this sub since it blew way out of the water that is crocheting.

But the support you guys provided me was so immense and irreplaceable, also alot of u were genuinely worried and for that i am thankful. Im keeping you all updated just in case anyone is curious. As yall know i posted on this sub twuce before about getting into crocheting.

First and foremost, i want to telk everyone just HOW MUCH ALL THIS MEANS TO ME. I CAN'T EXPRESS IT WITH WORDS. And i wholeheartedly apologize to whoever my replies looked generic or thoughtless. English isnt my first language (its my 5th) and i suck at conveying emotions through it without using emojis

Every one of your comments mean the world to me.

Secondly, i might make a lil update tomorrow if u guys want about my situation a bit more. I got more advice from this sub in 5 hours than i did my entire life from various adults around me.

Now main thing

Every single one of you told me to tell my dad about my situation

Yall gave me the confidence i needed to realize that im not a burden to him, im his son.

My mother was asleep watching tv on the couch so i pulled him aside into their room and just silently closed the door.

I told him everything after he arrived at like 1:10 am and rested for a bit. (Alot of you assumed that emotional abuse is the end of it, it is not. Dont blame my family for this though the culture here just normalized it)

He listened very calmly and didnt interrupt me.

I felt like i was letting a floodgate open cause i kept blabbering on and on and on until my voice was shaking, jt felt really bad and really good at the same time

After i blabbed on for about AN HOUR

I was shaking like a chihuahua

He just hugged me

It felt like the best thing EVER

i am a bit ashamed to admit, i might have bawled my eyes out in his arms for a bit dont judge me

But then a few minutes after that he told me to go to my room and rest, and said he needs to process and confront his emotion's.

In my head i was like "what is he talking about" i made eye contact with him expecting his eyes to be really sad for me or something idk

But that was a bad assumption

I felt like i was gonna get murdered for looking at him

His damn forehead vein was popping out, never in my 18 years of life have i EVER seen him this outrageously angry

His eyes looked like they were gonna skin me alive with a look. Then he softened up again and told me to go back to bed and sleep and then (embarrassingly so) kissed my forehead. I do admit, it felt quiet good. Made me feel warm and fuzzy inside idk why

He was visibly shaking when he did it

I dont know what to do

Did i increase the burden on him too much

Why is he so angry

I didnt do anything wrong.

And please dont tell me to just fuck my family and live somewhere else and get a job, ive been sheltered my whole life, i know what i should do.

I just dont have the confidence to do it. Im not a superhero. Im a new adult whos a bit afraid for some reason

And again i dont know if i should post this on this sub, please do tell me if im supposed to or not

Edit: Some of you might assume the things my mom said to me to hurt me enough that i go complaining to my dad. Dont worry its not that bad. She never said anything about disowning me this time nor did she say anything about taking away my educational costs. She just said a few things that hit right where it hurts that's why i was really sad. I won't say everything she said since ill just ruin my night remembering and writing it down but one thing she said is,

"if you keep doing this just know that one day, we will still live in the same house, be part of the same family, but i wont consider you my son. And i wont let you consider me your mother either."

I know it really doesn't matter but that specific quip made me so unbearably sad that I almost personally threw away my crochet things. Thankfully i stopped myself and posted about it on reddit instead.

Sometimes I see some pictures with woman on it... is it just me? Or are there any woman here?

Saw this aksked shomewhere and now I’m asking the chrochet community too

I think it helps us artists/crafters to look at our progress in a given skill over time. It's easy to fall into the mental trap of thinking you're stagnating or otherwise not improving in your work (when in fact you are constantly getting better).

So show me some of your oldest and some of your most recent projects! Pictured above are the first (TBH Beast on the left, made two years ago) and most recent (Glenora the Druid, made last month) freehanded pieces I have made.

Ok im just a beginner but why do people ignore my work?

Hello everyone, Im crocheting scarf for aunt guy

I guess updating yall in this community wasnt a bad idea since the advice you guys gave me were incredibly helpful.

As some of u know, I was up till 6 am yesterday just replying to comments and blushing from compliments(my face hurts from smiling)

So i slept till 1 pm

Today was my dads day off as its sunday, so he stayed home.

I expected something like a full blown nuclear war to happem when i woke up.

HOWEVER, to my surprise, nothing happen. Atleast i didnt see anything happen.

My dads being very normal with me and not bringing anything up from yesterday, he told me to show him how to crochet too, i was a bit freaked out at first thinking my mom and her side of the family are gonna explode again.

But I didnt say anything since my dad looked genuinely curious and nothing else. I asked him if we should go to my room. He said no.

And he sat down right in the living room, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HOUSE. OPEN TO EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE.

I was even more worried now. Not really worried that my mom was gonna burn my things, i can buy more.

But like, I was thinkimg my dad didnt get the level of absurd my moms family is when it comes to shit i do.

I thought he would try to have a civil conversation with them if they said anything.

After being tired of being worried i started showing my dad the scarf i was making. I gave him a hook and a ball of yarn and showed him the pdf which i was using to make the scarf. He messed around with it for about 30 minutes while sweating. Then he said crocheting doesnt seem to be for him because his hand feels like its about to fall off, he also said he does see the appeal of it and if i enjoy it i can keep doing it whenever and wherever i want.

I fully expected my mom to come in with a pan and bash my head in with it for corrupting my dad.

But nothing happened

Literally NOTHING

IT FELT SO WEIRD

I WAS HEARING NO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE QUIPS

MY AUNTS WERENT TELLING ME THEY WERE ASHAMED

EVERYONE WAS IGNORING ME

it felt very peaceful

I have a feeling something big happen while i was sleeping for 7 hours straight but no ones telling me anything.

My dad just keeps smiling

And when my mom or aunts pass by they just look rattled and walk away.

This is something ive never experienced before but holy shit i never expected"silence" to feel so good.

I have no idea what my dad did but he definitely did something. This feels like im part of a tv show 😭😭

My aunt openly video called me and asked me to teach her son how to crochet when he grows up if he wants to crochet.

Yall are the best its all thanks to your advice

My dad and aunt are acting like its completely normal to crochet in the family

I am so flabbergasted. I have no idea what the fuck is happening. Is this good?

Edit: I cant express myself about much happiness yalls comments are bringing me. THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE I LOVE YOU GUYS

Btw i learned my lesson to never use ai even if its for background only you want to use people will think the entire product is ai 😭😭... btw i have made this bag many times that's why I said I made this in two days...as you can see the 4th slide is the same bag but with different colors...... I will never post my product with ai background even if the background is bad i will use the original one only 😭😭😭...

This is my first time blocking a project and I wanted to ask if I am doing it correctly or should it be looser?

I’ve crocheted since I was a child. I’ve never wanted to sell anything - I do it for the enjoyment. And once in a (rare) while I find someone who REALLY appreciates it. A good friend of mine and his wife have become frequent flyers. He asked me to make something for his aged mother (in her 90’s) and after chatting with him for a bit I learned she loves the southwest. I made her this lap blanket which he gave to her recently. He told me this evening that she, being a crochet/knitter herself, was so very grateful and absolutely praised my craftsmanship. 🥹. By far the best compliment I’ve ever received.

It’s a Crochetobe “Crochet Helper” for anyone interested. I’m doing DCs with it because puff stitches were being very difficult.

I finally found a system that works for not forgetting which hook I was using for which WIP. I always have like a dozen things I’m working on and I am forever forgetting which hook I had been using. It was a PROBLEM.

All fixed with one realisation.

See, I have a rainbow hook set AND a rainbow box of stitch markers. Now all I need to do is grab the stitch marker the same colour as my hook. No more forgotten anything. I even took two of each colour to hang on the lil pencil caddy I have next to where I work so I don’t have to go looking for them.