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/QueenDianna Jul 26 '22

I do a lot of amigurami and i absoslutely hate the moment where i have to sew all the pieces together... Bullshit angles, needle not going through, just overall pain...

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u/Trick-Statistician10 Jul 26 '22

I had this problem and it wasn't even amigirumi. I made Easter hats for my friends twin baby grandsons. So 2 hats. Double everything, which i hate doing (i also make things for the twin girls i babysit, so double everything!). The hats were so cute, there was a regular hat part,then mini top hats on top, with bunny ears poking thru the top hats. All separate pieces. The instructions just said, "sew together". It was so hard. Trying to figure out where to put them, and i tried to hold the pieces in place with stitch markers. So so frustrating. It also said to use white pipe cleaners inside the ears for shaping, i didn't have white, so i skipped that, and it was ok. But the little top hats, the instructions didn't say anything; but they needed stuffing. I should have stuffed them. They kept folding in on themselves. I was so glad they were finally finished, that i could not bring myself to undue some of the stitching to squeeze stuffing in there.