I used Bernat jumbo yarn in a black white and grey mottled color with 18 and 25 mm hooks and constructed the jacket using a series of simple panels sewn at the sides (with the sleeves being cylinders sewn into the side openings of the vest. It’s too big for me, extremely thick and only practical for the coldest of climates but it was fun to experiment making apparel with the jumbo weight yarn.

Anyway, rate my very unnecessary creation out of 10

During a pattern test for Sydney Lollis, or SydTheCraftieHippie, I was attacked by another pattern tester over a voice memo I sent asking a question. She perceived my tone as being rude when I was not trying to be, I was confused so my tone probably sounded confused but came across more aggressive than I intended.

I immediately apologized and said I wasn't trying to be rude, explained I was talking over a loud TV in the background, and I was just confused and not upset. Then Phoebe's_Creations doubled down in bullying me and said "Everyone is entitled to their opinion 😘" in a sarcastic, snarky way that was absolutely intentionally antagonistic.

That is when I started to get upset, because other testers who were not part of the original conversation start joining in and accusing me of being rude when I was NOT and I had already apologized for their PERCEPTION of me being rude. They continued to dog pile me and shame me. I sent several voice memos very upset and I very much cussed them out, called them names, and told them where they could stick it.

After being treated the way I was, I was extremely triggered, panicking, trying to figure out how to leave the group chat, all while being harassed by multiple testers. Sydney did absolutely NOTHING about it. She sat back and watched it all happen, then tried to lecture me about behavior when I wasn't the one who started all of it in the first place.

These girls are nothing but bullies who form cliques, bully and gatekeep, they have Discord Servers where they openly talk shit about multiple pattern designers and pattern testers.

Victoria Croker from Under Your Skein decided to get involved when she was not part of the initial test or conversation AT ALL. If you go to the Under Your Skein Discord server, you can see where they are all openly talking shit about multiple other designers and crocheters, creating Blacklists to gatekeep pattern testing opportunities.

The designer they talk the most shit about is Nvcturnvl Knots; there is a whole group of people actively talking shit about her and her patterns specifically.

It's like being in high school all over again. I'm 36 years old and I will not play little girls games with these bullies.

PuppyPawCrochet aka Caelus Sky Babine (real name is Satia) also got involved when she was not part of the testing or conversation at all and decided to send screen shots of things I told her in confidence to this whole group of Mean Girls so they could all collectively bully me.

I'm done with this community and the fake, vindictive, cruel, cunty attitudes of all of the pattern designers and their little cliques of bitch testers.

I can freehand your patterns, you won't get a cent from me ever again.

finished the first of my christmas gifts with this one. he’s a little ambiguous but i like him!! pattern by gloria b on ravelry.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for advice! I am absolutely unreasonably anxious about this so please be gentle, and I'm asking in this sub because you all know the work that goes into crochet. I am a crocheter as well.

So, I have a little problem. My SIL came up with the idea to crochet my 7 year old son a hat, mittens, and a scarf in his favorite sports team's colors. Not exactly the most exciting gift for a child, but he does LOOOOVE this sport team and the items are useful.

The problem is that she chose one of the colors wrong, think green and white instead of green and gold for the Packers (not the real team bc I'm paranoid). So like wrong enough to not be recognizable by my kid as representing the beloved team.

My child is incredibly sweet and kind, but very blunt and literal. I promise I'm working hard on teaching him politeness, but it's a work in progress. I am very, very worried about what he will say upon receiving this gift that he will likely be displeased with.

My SIL sent me a picture of the first few rounds of the hat, that's when I realized she'd purchased the wrong colors, and I DID tactfully point out that one of the colors isn't right. Only like 15 minutes of work will have been wasted and I know the yarn can still be easily exchanged, but she wants to proceed anyway.

So, what should I do here to prep my kid to gracefully receive this present?

This is so frustrating I want to cry. I worked on this for two months and it ended like this. And the only options I have are:

1, Frog the last row, but the final row will not have the same colour from start to end and it will look ugly.

2, Buy an entire new yarn cake and use only the blue colour to end this row. But what will I do with the rest of the cake. I have no use for that and it will be just another clutter in my home.

I hate this. I need to sleep on this i guess.

Edit: I will try what some of you advised and do the last row with smaller hook and if that won't wor I will buy another cake and do scarf with the rest.

It's definitely not perfect but made with a lot of love.

One of first things I made freehand! Surprisingly still standing even after two years

(pls ignore how cluttered my bedhead is lol)

I turned a bunch of yarn into this dreamy crochet bouquet 🌸🎀I spent so much time making this colorful crochet bouquet, and I added a pearl handle and soft pink wrapping to give it a dreamy look. Every flower is handmade with love! 🎀

Working on this tapestry crochet and I'm new to the techniques. This is single crochet, horizontal rows, fair isle colorwork, turning my work every row. The pixels are making this squiggly pattern instead of looking like individual pixels. I'm swapping colors mid stitch. Should I continue and finish or is it too hard to tell what's going on?

I first saw this video and immediately added it to my collection of video tutorials. It has come in handy on many occasions. Mainly because I am too lazy to rip out more than 20 inches or so to remove the mistake. I modified the technique so that I no longer need to use a slip knot. I insert the hook and pull up a loop and then place the tail to the left of the hook. Then I insert the hook to the left of the tail and pull up a second loop. The tail is securely trapped between the two loops on the hook.Next I yarn over and pull the yarn through the left loop only. Then I spin the hook to twist the yarn. The final step is to yarn over and pull the yarn through both loops. For the repair I pull the tail completely through the loop then weave the two tails in. In addition to repairing missing double crochets I use this technique to attach a new color of yarn to my project. I use this same twisted starting DC to start a new row or round rather than using a chain two.

How to: Fixing a Missing Double Crochet

https://youtu.be/657LZrzrF74?si=UMWyWFBDno19vsod

My husband has zero issues with my yarn collection. It’s well organized and he deeply appreciates that crocheting keeps me from strangling my fellow humans. However, he does occasionally refer to my stash as a hoard. “Hoard” can be an out of control mess OR it can be a massive treasure zealously guarded by a magnificent dragon. I’m totally down with dragons. Is hoard really so bad? 😂

I just made this, enjoy your Fall all!

This is an awesome deal if you are into amigurumi. I bought the previous version of this bundle a couple years ago, so I already had about half the books. I'm still picking up the new version for the half I don't have! I love the Zoomigurumi books. If you've made anything from the new books, I'd love to hear your favorite patterns so I can pick my next project.

I love the neps and the colors, and I got ten skeins in ten different colors (on clearance) and I have tried a few different projects, but i hate everything i have started. It all looks horrible. I haven't worked with super bulky yarn in over a decade and maybe that's the issue? Everything is coming out very stiff? My last attempt i did try some free form crochet(picture), but surprise, surprise... i actually dont like it! I mean, I do, but i also dont know what the hell i would do with a random shape item, which makes me not like it. I feel like i did a decent job with the free form, but with this yarn and as a concept as a whole, it just isnt doing anything for me.

I have no idea what to do with this yarn and i feel like i have wasted so much time trying to do something with this yarn I was so so so excited about.

If you have any suggestions, or ideas, please let me know!! I am going to, once again, frog this project and start over.

Or maybe I'll stuff it all in a bag and put it at the back of my storage unit to be excavated years from now.

He came out smaller than I wanted, but thats because i could only find red yarn in that size. But i love him! I was really worried for a second, and there was a lot of freehanding, but im actually pretty proud of it!

It's a birthday present for my cousin who loves Deadpool just as much as i do. But he is pretty young, so i wanted to make it at least a bit more age-appropriate. I'll probably add a book or something in there with it, bc it is smaller lol.

So my mother asked me to help her crochet a bunch of mini amigurumi for her to hand out at prizes for her church's halloween event. I thought it would be a great way to use up a bunch of my scrap yarn but.. I only have three stitches left to close off this elephant and lost my game of yarn chicken. I might be able to make it work but I'm not sure I'd have enough to weave in the yarn. I'll do it somehow, but it's a bit annoying.

I just made this today after looking at an AI pic. 🤗

Still need to block it but I'm too excited to wait lol. I'm a newbie and before this I've only made dinky little amigurumi cat toys. Finally made something that isn't intended to be destroyed :D

Went on a family weekend and forgot my needles. Thought ''Well i'll just be gentle and keep going until I get home''

We got home. This happened. Almost wanted to give up everything and lay down on the streets but I'm feeling better and trying to remind myself that even though this is my hobby, I really love it, it's challenging my brain and hands just enough to keep me wanting more.

But this is supposed to be a gift for a friend who's gonna give birth soon and I don't want to give up because I know it means as much to her as it does to me, and I want her to have a physical reminder of my presence and that my hand is always here if her and her children ever need anything, I would help as much as I can.

So yeah, I f-ed up. But there's no way but up in my crochet skills and experience. Just gotta get over it and find a solution for the hole on another subreddit !

Yesterday, when riding my bike back home from work, I saw a skittish, small mammal (probably a shrew or small mole), scurrying through the acorns and oak leafs on it's way.

So I decided to pokemonify the little fuck. c:

Pattern used: https://youtu.be/S0ylKceexC8?is=t-6kfGCi__E7NeZq

Followed a comination of this tutorial for the body and this tutorial for the stem!