15 Things You Should NEVER Say to Crafters

[Warpy]

3. “Will you knit me a sweater? I’ll buy you a drink!”

And "No Knitting at the Bar!" do it for me. There would be blood. With size 00 straights producing it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alannaokun/things-you-should-never-say-to-a-crafter

[knitter4democracy]

1. Add in, "I know you're counting, but..."

Don't mess with Mama when she's counting!

[Warpy]

2. Oh, and "You could totally make a lot of money doing that!"

like it's the only reason to do anything.

[pipi_k]

6. Yep, exactly...

If I were to do what I do for money, it would seem like a job. Because, basically, it would be.

That means it wouldn't be for fun anymore.

Many non-crafters just don't understand how it could be more pleasurable for me to make stuff and give it away than to sell it.


PS...although when I was doing beadwork years ago I did have a friend who wanted to pay me for a pair of earrings for her daughter. I accepted the money, then felt awful. Like somehow what I made wasn't good enough to sell.

At least giving it away I'm not going to feel guilty about "cheating" someone.

[Warpy]

9. People just don't have a clue what goes into handcrafted work

They just know they can go to any Wal Mart and get something "just as good" for five bucks.

I just do the drop kick these days and send them off to the yarn store for lessons.

[pipi_k]

10. Something cute from

last Christmas

My grandson, who was 8, needed a winter hat, so I told my daughter I would make him one, which I did, and then I made a scarf to match.

Well, you know how kids are about clothing...they'd rather have the toys, so I didn't expect much.

But my daughter told me when he opened the package I sent and she told him that I had made them, he couldn't believe it...

"Nanny made these? For ME?"

Apparently he loved them.

I get all weepy still, just thinking about it.




PS...just wanted to mention that I've made other things for the grandkids, like sock monkeys (from the sockmonkey socks) and crocheted afghans. I guess to my grandson, those are way different from something he could actually wear.

[Warpy]

11. Some people are very knitworthy

while the rest of them are clods who sniff at it like homemade = cheap and it's rolled up in the bottom of the closet or (worst I've heard) the knitter finds it in the garage used as an oil rag.

[pipi_k]

12. Yeah, it's bad enough

if they never use/wear it but when it gets disrespected...

My MIL was pissed off for years over a lap blanket she made for her oldest son's stepdaughter.

The girl used it as a dog blanket.

OK I love animals, but that's just wrong...


OTOH, I once crocheted a nice rainbow afghan for this same MIL...rushing to get it done for Christmas, working my fingers to the bone. Never saw her use it, and when she died, we found it in a chest in her spare bedroom along with a bunch of other stuff people had given her that she never used. Granted, she was a young girl during the Depression, and probably learned to make do with very little, but still...

anyway, I ended up snagging the Swarovski crystal snail (also in that chest, doing nothing) one of her ex DILs had given her for her birthday, and it sits proudly on my dresser in a display case.

[SheilaT]

3. All of those, of course.

I'm made crazy by those who can't tell the difference between knitting and crocheting while watching me crochet. I should keep a knitting needle handy to stab those people, as crochet hooks don't have a pointy end.

[MagickMuffin]

4. Or calling crochet hooks needles

It's like, ahhh no … … … crochet hooks have … … … well HOOKS!

Hence the name crochet hooks … …

[SheilaT]

5. Yeah. People have no idea how riled up

we crocheters can get. Probably knitters, also.

[pipi_k]

8. Hah!!!

I knit and crochet...

Mr Pipi always seems so...mystified...maybe even awed...

by my little tool kit full of tapestry needles, hooks, threaders, a tiny crochet hook for picking up dropped stitches, stitch markers, a row counter, Tunisian crochet hooks, seaming pins, etc.

He always asks me, what's that for? What's that for? And that?

I hold the power of the yarncrafting universe in my hands...

muwahahahahaha!!!!

[pipi_k]

7. I hate number

3 as well.

My mom was always good for doing that...not that she would offer me a drink. But when I was doing sewing, she would want a copy of whatever I might be making for myself.

She's in FL now, so she doesn't get to see what I'm making...hee hee.

Anyway, one stepdaughter professes to LOVE handmade articles, so a few months after her daughter was born, she asked if I would knit this cute little elf hat, which I did. Actually I made a couple of them in different colors.

So she posts to Facebook and all of a sudden all her friends want hats, and one of them actually asked if I would make one for her son, which I did.

The only problem with this being that they had to be made on dp needles...which I'm not real fond of, having a touch of arthritis in my hands and all.

So when her other friends started asking for the same hat, I posted the pattern to my stepdaughter's wall and basically said without saying it...go make your own.

Then last year this same stepdaughter waits till about two weeks before a double baby shower to ask if I would make booties for both moms-to-be. That's not enough time for me to be able to guarantee I could finish in time, especially with arthritis, so I had to tell her the truth. Not enough time, hand problems....

[surrealAmerican]

13. Ok, I have to ask ...

... what are you making on 00 straights? (My skinny needles are all DPNs.)

[Warpy]

14. As little as possible

I keep them around for clods who tell me if I knit them a sweater, they might buy me a drink.

I hate DPs, it's like wrestling with a rabid porcupine.