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Maybe not as expensive as the others, but crochet/knitting/sewing all start off fairly cheap, and then the next thing you know you're offering to service old men behind a Joann's fabric because you need this particular fabric and you need an entire bolt of it, and it's the one fabric in the entire fucking store that isn't on their amazing buy one get 73 free sale for the week.
Nothing like spending $100 and 80 hours on a pair of socks for yourself because they don't sell the ones you want.
Those are gorgeous though. I don't have the skill to do anything like that yet. I'm mainly stuck on sleep masks and warshrags. Haha. That cabling looks amazing
I feel like there's a collision of fetishes here about to start paying for your yarn habit.
Do you have a link to this pattern? I like the heel here and I don't love the one I currently use.
Pattern? No, I never use patterns. The heal is a standard "afterthought heal". You can find instructions on YouTube and other sites. It is my favorite heal and the easiest to darn when the time comes.
When doing socks I do a test swatch to figure out my stitches per in for rows and columns. Then the rest is all math. Once I finished the first I just started cabling the top of the foot. When I got to the ankle I started cabling all the way around. I kept going until they were as high as I wanted them.
When I learned to knit my instructor was pissed by the end of the fist days lessons because I had knitted several things with no patterns. "How do you know what to do?" "Math."
Thank you so much for the name of it! I'm a beginner and only knit the same socks over and over again. I have been experimenting with different sock patterns without a guide, but not the heel construction.
Those are gorgeous!!
Wow, these look amazing! Great job :)
I just started crocheting this week 🥲
It's a wonderful habit! Don't listen to me. Haha. Fiber crafts are seriously awesome. I'm a total novice at crochet, an intermediate knitter (Portuguese style), and I sew half way well. It's so much fun, and so worth it. ... Just read your coupons carefully.
After one project I'm already feeling that about the coupons 🙃 But it's really fun and I enjoy it a lot! I can't wait to dive deeper into it
Its so good. I'd recommend you get cotton yarn. It tends to fray less than acrylic and easier to get your hook in and see stitches. Also, amigurumi for making toys is really cool.
There's so many options for amigurumi I don't know where to start! I just need to pick something and go with it haha
Yep! Especially buying like ethically sourced yarn and stuff. It's why I buy acrylic yarn because buying yarn from local dyers is difficult as.
Same boat. I'm poor as fuck. I hate that I make so many decisions to buy things I know aren't the option ethically, and that applies so hard to yarn. Really anything in the textiles industry. I try not to buy animal fiber at all unless it's thrifted.
The problem is not the price of the yarn, the problem is that none of us have self control and will hoard thousands of dolars in yarn in a closet and not use it because "it's too pretty I need the perfect project for it".
...and then we go out and buy more yarn
I do not appreciate you spying on me and posting about it. Rude.