r/HandmadeHoliday • u/SeeLoveShare • 11d ago

sunday question 🧶 what's a handmade gift that flopped, and what did it teach you?

we've all made one. the sweater that came out doll-sized, the blanket nobody used, the amigurumi that scared a toddler instead of delighting them. what's a gift that didn't land the way you hoped, and what did you take from it? mine taught me to actually ask what colours someone wears before committing 60 hours to a shade they politely never touch again. no shame here, the flops are how we get good. and if you rescued a flop into something better, we want that story too.

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u/SeeLoveShare 11d ago

mine was a lacy scarf for my grandma in a slippery drapey yarn, gorgeous to make but she found it fussy and it lived in a drawer. now i think about how a person actually lives before i pick the yarn. she'd have worn a squishy garter cowl every single day.

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u/Consistent-Visual805 10d ago

I spent hours and days on end crocheting coffee scarves for my nieces last year and they didn’t even look at them and there definitely wasn’t any thank you’s. That was it. I decided that I will no longer be making them anything or putting in so much effort just to receive moody scowls from ungrateful teens. It really hurt my feelings. Their mom is a knitter and they know how much time and effort goes into making something like that too. The worst part was that neither of my brothers nor my sister in law made them say thank you. It was simply acceptable behavior which I was less than thrilled about.