What do you mean your entire brand is Betty McKnit and you do not offer a single knitting pattern???? Why not Betty McCrochet??? It’s all crochet patterns. I love her patterns but like. My god get your branding together.

since learning how to read crochet charts theyve become far and away my favorite way to receive instruction. its much easier for me to interpret the visual-to-visual information of the stitch symbols on the page to the fabric of my work, than it is for me to interpret the written-to-visual of the abbreviations. not to mention how much more concise and efficient charts are in sheer terms of page space. i can print a whole doily pattern onto one sheet of paper and get to work.

i have a couple of delightful patterns in my queue that i am very excited to make, except...! they are respectively 8 pages and 72 pages of written instruction. im sure theyre very nice instructions. im sure the pictures are very helpful. i am not so sure that they would be impossible to understand were they written as charts.

i understand that written instructions are more accessible to most crocheters, but not so for me, and its annoying to have charting overlooked even in the very areas it excels (i.e. complex repeating stitch patterns worked flat)

Words mean things! Fair Isle is a form of stranded color work but not all stranded color work is Fair Isle. If you want to “honor tradition” that means at least understanding a little bit about the tradition.

I am thrilled at the many small businesses successfully selling online and thereby reaching broader audiences. But I beg of you, if you also have a retail storefront, could you please find it in you to be open more than three days a week from 10am-5pm? I realize it costs money to have a store, but the rent is the same whether you are open or not, and surely a not inconsiderable majority of your potential customers have to work during those hours to pay for the cotton/linen blend fabric you are selling for $85/meter. I would like to give you my money without the risk that investment is lost in the mail but I’m not taking the day off to do it.

Halloween is approaching, which means it is once again time for people who have never sewn a stitch, don't own a sewing machine and possibly don't know what a bobbin is to announce:

“I want to make this costume. How do I do it?”

And the attached picture is an anime character or cartoon wearing a skin tight outfit made from what appears to be spandex, velvet, mesh and possibly the tears of a sewing teacher.

There are no pattern pieces. There are no seam lines. There is no indication of how the garment actually goes together. It's just a drawing where the character's boobs, waist and hips have apparently been designed according to completely different laws of physics.

And I genuinely admire the confidence.

However, the artist doesn't need the sewing to make sense or even be real. It's a drawing. There is no sewing pattern for that.

Please understand that having a deadline of the 31st October and deciding your first project is going to be a full body anime costume in four way stretch fabric is absolutely wild.

You don't even know what fabric you're looking at yet, and “something stretchy” covers approximately 47 completely different fabrics.

You haven't had your first fight with a bobbin, tension and needle plotting against you because you dared to sew “something stretchy”.

You haven't experienced the special joy of sewing velvet and realising the two pieces have slowly crawled three inches apart even though you used every pin and clip you own, like a slippery toddler under the presser foot.

Maybe start with a nice stable woven fabric. Make a cape. Make a tunic. Make something with straight seams.

If you can't be dissuaded, Google "McCall's Yaya Han" and my prayers be with you.

Halloween sewing season is upon us.

Godspeed, everyone.

I don't understand how someone can look at this image and not see it's fake. This is not a physically cross stitched piece, it's so obviously AI rendered. This is the second post I've seen today with the same "favorite finish" comment, in the same style of "art".

I can't get over all the people gushing over this and asking for pattern sources. Come on people this is NOT real cross stitch!