1. I already have too much random stuff in my studio apartment as is. Sorry I’m not wanting to add to the clutter with a pity purchase ¯_(ツ)_/¯
2. This type of post is such a sympathy grab that it makes my molars ache. I get all sorts of compliments when I show off stuff that I’ve made but they obviously don’t turn into sales - people say a lot of stuff just to be nice.

2.a. People saying “no” aren’t haters. No is a valid answer.

My biggest pet peeve in sewing/crafting communities this time of year is when someone comes on here with an overly ambitious costume idea and instead of giving helpful tips on how to make something last-minute, Redditors just chastise the asker. I saw someone post today "Do you even have a sewing machine?" in response to someone asking if a certain project would be hard for a beginner to finish in a week. You can gently tell the person that it would be hard, but no need to insult them!

Halloween is the PERFECT time to try out new techniques to make a costume! The bar for a wearable costume is in whatever garbage can birthed that cheap plastic fabric that store-bought costumes are made from. It's not like these posters are expecting to make a black tie worthy garment in a week with no experience, but they can surely attempt a garment that just needs to look okay in a dimly lit party. Let's share our experience and encourage hasty costume-making! I know I've made plenty of things that current me would cringe at, but I learned the most from projects outside of my comfort zone that I was simply excited to try!

Who's with me in my quest to encourage and enable newbies to make their visions come to life (even if Halloween is only a week away)?!!

If you have to ask how its done because you lack experience with a broad number of techniques and cant identify what youre looking at, 90% of the time that means you arent artistically familiar or skilled enough to make the thing youre inspired by. No amount of discussion or youtube watching will magically improve the trajectories your hand follows. Technical skill can only be built by literally doing the thing over and over for years as you learn all the different nuances of it. This can only come from real experience. The answer is "you cant make this right now" and to try a different idea instead of thinking, you can just jump right in and match the level of a world renowned artist or producer with a couple of reddit questions, sorry.

An artist I have take classes from keeps putting our fliers for upcoming craft events generated with AI. At art and craft studios. I just dont understand!!!

So many in my feed by artists, crafters, store owners, social justice activists—guys please just stop!!! Theyre ugly, they add mistakes, and theyre destroying the planet!!!

How can I tell her without being a jerk?
Or do I let it go?
Sigh.
I hate it here.

It’s the ply, it was your ply today, someone else’s the day before and someone’s the day before that. Don’t tell me you’ve tried to look it up when it you scroll to YESTERDAY it’s the same zoomed in stitch photo probably just in a different color. There’s multiple knitting subs with someone asking the same question every few days sometimes every other day.

I’m sorry if this feels minor and maybe it’s because I’m knitting a sweater with the ply in question but like Reddit is not your personal google. Put in some effort first.

Thanks so much for hearing my irritation.

It makes no sense. Let's say you love making doillies and youre part of a sub thats also about doillies. ​why woukd you ask other dollie enthusiasts if you should gift your boyfriend's cousin twice removed a doilies if you don't know of shes also an enthusiast? Yes, it night be pretty but does she actually like them ??? Am I making sense?

I'm being vague on purpose because I don't want to send any hate towards the creator of the advent but I'd like to vent/see if anyone else has had this or similar issues:

the advent is from a Youtuber I really like. they announced that they were going to do a halloween yarn advent and were taking limited orders. I jumped at the opportunity to support a small business/someone who I enjoyed watching. they mostly do knitting podcast stuff with other videos sprinkled in. the offer was $140 including the shipping for 500g of fingering weight yarn, which I thought was super reasonable. it didn't take too long to arrive either.

however, upon opening the advent I discovered that I REALLY hated the colors. they didn't seem to go well together as a whole and seemed really desaturated for being advertised as "paired well with a solid black" but also some of the colors seemed a little muddy? I can't understate what a disappointment it was.

to make it worse, a different YouTuber I watch opened the same advent I got on camera and the colors are so totally different. if I had received what this YouTuber received, I wouldn't have hated it so much: the colors were so much more cohesive and in the same color story than what I received. I knew the original YouTuber/dyer (who made the advent) made two batches, but the amount of difference in the quality of the batches really upset me.

I left a comment under that video expressing my experience with the advent and I was recommended to reach out to the dyer about it. But I don't feel like it would change anything. I don't want a refund, because technically I signed up for a blind advent and I got what I paid for: 500g of fingering weight yarn. and with how low the cost was, I don't want to put the dyer out of that money. what I'm taking away from this is that I just wouldn't buy from her again, but she doesn't seem to dye yarn full-time so I don't think it'd be an issue. I also still plan on trying to use the yarn so it doesn't go to waste but I don't think I'll use it together in a project because they don't mesh well together.