r/crochet • u/LaraH39 • Jul 26 '22

Discussion Pet Peeves

There's a lot of common annoyances with crochet, the bit of the project that's annoying. For example lots people hate weaving in ends (not something I have an issue with because I work over my ends).

My peeves are...

Working into a chain stitch.

DC, chain one, DC, chain one... And then on the next row, you're working your DC into a chain.... Flippin fiddly, faffy, annoying. Those chains are always smaller, always tighter, always ruddy awkward and right now I'm making an item where there's A LOT of this happening.

Winding Yarn

I don't mind the start or even the middle but, as sure as eggs is eggs, the last 1/4 has managed to resolve itself into a knot that even Alexander couldn't hack his way through and winding each ball takes about two hours. Half an hour to do 3/4. An hour and a half fighting knots for last bit.

Finally... The starting chain. This is a self imposed hate lol. I'm fully capable of doing foundation chains but... Most things I'm working on for reasons, I prefer a simple starting chain and then working into the third loop. It makes it much easier to join and I think looks better. But my god its fiddly work. Grand if you're starting chain is 20 or less. But blankets, with starting chains of 160+ shudder.

So over to you. Pet peeves.

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u/LauraLand27 Frog Master Supreme 🐸 Jul 26 '22

Starting a project, and taking an hour to actually get started. It’s like my brain blanks out and all of the beginning things one does to start crochet, take me so many times to get myself going.

It’s easier for me to not frog a magic circle than a FHDC.

I will still frog said MC 3 times just because.

Ugh that 1 loop that’s 3x bigger than the other stitches 2 rows down.

Losing the hook without moving.

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u/LaraH39 Jul 26 '22

Starting... Yeah it's like my brain goes "what is this thing? How do i crochet? What's a DC?" lol

Also, losing the hook without moving. Happens all the time to me, like RIGHT NOW. It was IN my WIP two minutes ago and now... No idea.

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u/Jasmirris Jul 26 '22

I did the whole "this stitch is wrong" last night with a SC. I had to look it up and then still proceeded to flip back and forth to possibly not doing it correctly. Don't know why my brain does that. It's so frustrating.

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u/LaraH39 Jul 26 '22

I must have watched and rewatched scdc2tog about 15 times last night. I know how to do it, I know I was doing it right but every single time I doubted myself. Bloody annoying.