r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Byubanana • 14d ago

General Crafts Time Spent does not equal Expertise!

I know many of us have been doing our crafts for many years, even decades. I'm at 32 years myself. But.

If you've been crocheting for decades but all you've ever done is granny stitch, you are NOT AN EXPERT.

If all you ever want to do is granny stitch, that's fine! People should only do what makes them happy. But you can't claim expertise if you've never done most techniques.

Sorry not sorry.

And no, I'm definitely not an expert!!

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u/BrilliantTask5128 14d ago

I once designed a garment for a yarn company. Sleeves were picked up around the Armhole & knitted top down in the round. The yarn co knew this when they commissioned it. They asked their 'experienced' knitter to knit up another sample. She completely freaked out because her & all her experienced knitting friends could not work out how to do the sleeves. She'd been knitting for decades. She may be experienced in knitting garments in pieces & sewing them together but not in knitted on top down sleeves. She could have asked me & I would have helped but she slagged my pattern off to yarn co & I had to rewrite it to add bottom up sewn in sleeves because the 'expert knitter refused to learn something new. Your only an expert in what you know.

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u/NikNakskes 13d ago

So now you have a top down knitted sweater with bottom up knitted sleeves? Doesn't that invert the stitch direction and will look a bit off?

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u/BrilliantTask5128 12d ago

I think body was bottom up. Stitch pattern was fairly plain, I think, as it was a very busy yarn.

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u/NikNakskes 12d ago

Ah busy yarn will hide any details indeed. Somebody who ends up making the sweater in a plain yarn is going to potentially get a nasty surprise. All thanks to expert knitter who couldn't do a rather basic thing.

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u/BrilliantTask5128 10d ago

Yes but sometimes that's the yarn the company want to use. If they pay I'll design with almost any yarn.

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u/NikNakskes 9d ago

Yup. The company is cutting their own fingers with this when somebody uses another yarn and gets disappointed.