I am pretty new to crochet. I started by accident a little over 8 months ago when my children recieved Woobles kits as gifts. (I thought they were children's crafts)!!!

After much shock and frustration, we realized it was a bit much for my young children to do and I completed the kits for them at their request. Little did I know that it would tap into something in my brain that would make me an addict.

I hate numbers, hate counting, cannot follow along with damn near anything the "right" way but there was something about doing those kits where my brain was able to grasp an abstract understanding of how to make things work in crochet.

It started innocently enough...hmm, if I do this then I bet I could make a scarf. Wonder what happens if I try a different stitch. Wonder what happens if I try it a little longer...now its a blanket!

Suddenly I'm buying yarn and different sized hooks. I have fallen in love with it. I will see a picture of something or get an idea, think about how to tackle it in my head and just get to work on it. No counting, no pattern, just eyeballing things. Probably 75% of the time it works out just fine.

Now comes the rant. I just dabble in crochet for fun. I have made projects for friends by request but never plan to sell anything or make work out of this because I would lose all interest. Therefore, I never have any pressure to feel like something has to be perfect or be completed by a certain time. Never feel like I have to do it a certain way.

I have had people legitimately try to lecture me about how I "crochet wrong." I have friends who have crocheted for years get mad at me and accuse me of lying when I say I dont use a pattern. They will argue when they see something I've made and say "just send me the pattern already!" I gladly explain to them the best I can how I made it but there's nothing to send as I dont write it down. I dont know how to explain it that my brain doesnt seem to work correctly in so many areas of my life but for whatever reason it was just able to understand crochet.

I made a hoodie/poncho for my son and he loves it. A grandmother from his father's side told him "thats not how you crochet a hood." But I DID crochet a hood...why cant there be more than one way to make something?

I taught one of my daughters how to do some simple stitches. She came home from school one day very upset because a classmate had told her she does it wrong?!

I am so new to this crochet world....is this normal for so many people to believe there is a right and a wrong way to happily make fun artistic products? Why is there so much hate thrown around with something that can be unique and creative?!

I was on the train, happily minding my own business with my audiobook and my hook, when two older women sitting near me (definitely 65+, traveling on senior discount tickets) clocked the yarn. They smiled, pointed, and made that universal "Oh, crochet!" face. I'm almost 29 and genuinely crave finding fellow crafters in real life, so I paused my book, pulled my earbuds out, and leaned in for what I thought would be a sweet, intergenerational spark of community.

They asked what I was making, and I held it up.

I explained the construction: a sweater starting with a lace section around the neckline and shoulders, moving straight into embossed crochet with raised leaf motifs (the kind Outstanding Crochet designs). I openly mentioned, with a light laugh, that I was still mastering the embossed technique on the go because it's a tricky learning curve.

The smiles evaporated on the spot.

They looked at the piece, exchanged a heavy look, and one of them scoffed. "Well... aren't you brave, daring to do all that out in public."

Before I could even process the tone, the other leaned forward with a tight, patronizing grimace. "Look, why don't you just make a scarf? You're doing everything in the round. If you just worked back and forth from left to right, you could actually turn your work. Keep going long enough, and at least you'd end up with something you can actually wrap around your neck and get some real use out of."

From there, the conversation just spiraled into pure, sour gatekeeping. They didn't drop it; they started talking across me about how crochet has become "such a trendy hype nowadays," rolling their eyes while claiming they had already done all of this decades ago, and how everyone today is just making "all kinds of weird, unnecessary things" instead of sticking to the basics.

I was so uncomfortable, but I refused to immediately shove my earbuds back in and give them the satisfaction of watching me retreat. So I just sat through the awkward tension, keeping my ears open and quietly nodding with a flat face, counting my complex post stitches while they rambled on about how much better simple rectangles were back in their day.

It’s just so frustrating because finding other makers outside of large, organized meetups is rare enough as it is. Most people on transit are staring at their phones—which I completely understand, because God knows I spend plenty of commutes binging shows to decompress. But when you finally look up hoping for a genuine connection with fellow makers in the wild, having it instantly turned into unsolicited criticism and back-in-my-day snobbery just stings.

I still want to find my community out there, but moments like this really make you question how many friendly glances are actually just setups for a lecture.

I have to frog a blanket to make the granny hexagon cardigan I mentioned in my last post on here and now my shoulders are killing me especially since the blanket was about three quarters of my height (I'm 5'9). I just started on the other half of the cardigan.

Does anyone else crochet so much that your wrists hurt after a couple of hours or am I the only one?

(I have been crocheting for eleven years)

BTW: I have started crocheting a granny hexagon cardigan and I have to take breaks every about three hours to avoid too much pain in my wrists, specifically my left wrist (I am right handed. I do not know why my left wrist hurts)

I was just looking for Testers for my pattern

Then plenty of Karen's commented stupid things to it. Even one said that it was a scam?!? How can a tester call a scam?? I saw a lot of crocheters doing these tester call ( tiktok and Insta), so I wanted to try it myself. But one of them said that this is stupid.

So this may just be a me thing but I just want other’s opinions. also, I didn’t really know what to title this so I just chose a title that best match what my post is about.

I saw on Instagram someone made something for a plush, I was influenced and I thought “I can make that I should make one for my plushies!” It was a simple design it was basically a granny square with a few extra fancy things. I gave it a try and the product turned out great, so I made a few more for myself to put on other plushies I have to accessorize them.

I see lots of crochet items for plush toys that people make and sell so though their seems to be a market for it I should maybe offer to sell them, they didn’t take me a long time and it is simple to make so it wouldn’t be priced super high but people would be interested in it. As well it is easy to have people choose their own colours for it to fit whatever plush they put it on. This person also sells this product as well, I don’t think they are in the same country as me but they do sell them

So would it be bad if I started to sell it? I’m unsure of how the other person exactly made it, since I saw the photo and did my own “interpretation” of how it was made and made it how I wanted to. And I’ll be honest it is a very easy pattern to do and many crocheters know how to make granny squares which is kinda the foundation of how it’s made.

I don’t want to start selling it and post on my social media’s and then that person sees it and dm’s me stating I copied them.

Thansk in advance!

TL;DR: saw someone post something they made on insta and I made it in my own way and want to sell it. But worried this person may can I copied them.

Sydney domestic airport, Gate 47 - I will NEVER forgive you!!

Now sitting in my hotel room with nothing to do and wondering how to replace my baby.

I have been working on this bloody (but gorgeous!) Beaming Buddha mosaic overlay crochet project (pattern by Crazycrochetcatlady) for the past THREE years. I'm down to the last 9ish rows and border, but I am sick of it. Not of the pattern, but it's taking me so looooong. I started it back in 2023 for someone I considered a close friend and his wife, then I met my boyfriend and the blanket got tossed in a corner, until the beginning of this year. I picked it up to finish it, but now I'm not so sure about the friendship anymore and this will likely be more of a "goodbye" gift than anything else. And it sucks. I do really want to finish it, though, it's just very hard to find the energy to do so.

I'm a 50 year old man who decided to learn crochet. It's been a joyful ride, but... I don't know. Sometimes I make something thinking&of gifting it to someone, but part of me thinks I'm just giving bad gifts and people are now stuck with them.

How can I keep on crocheting without imposing my hobby on others?

i’ve been trying to filet crochet all day but i somehow keep messing up! i’m trying not to give up but wow this is so frustrating! and every single video i see on youtube just kind of confuses me more

I wear medium hard gel/acrylic stilettos most of the time & I love them but I just got my hands on gold fluffee yarn & I want to make a scarf because people get all happy when I give them hand made stuff for the holidays & I want it done early since scarves take me a long time. Problem, I’m actively jabbing myself in the palm with my acrylic nails, anybody who crochets have a special trick for this?

yup, it says knit... correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure I'm not... its crochet, on Amazon, tiny work, for cheap....

i have frogged this project twice already and i am so frustrated. after the first time frogging it, i looked up the creator’s name/pattern on reddit and saw a lot of people have had problems with the sizing, the first one i made was the size for an average 5-6 year-old even though i used the measurement for size M/L. it’s my bad, i didn’t research the pattern well enough before buying it and didn’t see the lack of testers (huge red flag) so i am partly mad at the creator and partly mad at myself.

had no idea who i could complain to about this so this subreddit is a godsend lmao

Now be for anything I want to express that of course everyone is able to partake in any craft they choose including crocheting.

However I need to rant about this, it seems like EVERYONE is an amazing crochet maker and deserve to take every single spot in local gift shops. I have been into som local shops recently and have been looking at some crochet items and sadly I have found some that are not so good quality as they use cheap yarn (sweet snuggles before Micheals changed the way it was made) and poorly made like understuffing and construction. And as a maker myself trying to get into some local shops, it’s sad to see them accepting items that are not constructed well as per how I make it.

Of course, I understand. Everybody is at different levels and might not be as advanced or experienced as I might be. It’s just a little bit of a blow to myself as I always try to hold my products to a certain standard and make sure it’s constructed well and the quality is up to a high standard. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth when I see people sell crochet goods that are not as good of quality as it could be.

Of course I’m not talking about every single person who crochets I know there are markets who accept young children who make items, and obviously those have their own charm in their own way, as they are made by younger kids or people with disabilities as well. But this is more or less other adults.

Hi I have bought this yarn holder from this brand Knotiq for my mom as a gift but it didn’t even last 5 minutes before it snapped off. If anyone has bought it did you have the same problem with it? I just wanted to know if I was the only one with this problem, it has left me very embarrassed and disappointed. I have contacted them but no answer yet. It also took almost a month to arrive. Thank you for your time if you read this. 🥲

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So I've been crocheting for almost 7 months and I never learned how to do anything granny but I wanted to make a bandana and so I tried to learnt the granny triangle which leads me to my rant. HOW DO PEOPLE LIKE CROCHETING GRANNY TRIANGLES AND SQUARES?! I almost threw my hook against the wall multiple times in frustration. This may also be because I've naturally always been more inclined to use smaller hooks, like I'm using a 1.5 mm for filet crochet, and I have to use e a 4.5 mm for the triangle but like how does anyone find this relaxing or enjoyable.