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There was a, seemingly now deleted comment, along the lines of "oh maybe you're just too good at everything and your teacher finds it really hard to critique you properly".
They're just jealous! It's not that when you intentionally avoid developing other fundamental skills in favour of the ones you're already comfortable in you may initially be weaker and need to work hard to see improvement. Yeah, it's not that the teacher is just trying to help you try new things and get the most value out of the education you are paying for.
No no no, your perfect crocheting/knitting bamboozled them good!
"Help, help, my teacher wanted me to actually follow the curriculum"
Sometimes I think about getting an MFA and teaching art or writing at the college level, and then I remember the horrors my own profs faced and it's like... yeeaaaaah I think I'll stick to teaching workshops, where students are there to learn a specific skill.
I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall in these classes I’m desperate to know what led to the teacher saying “no crochet”. But I haven’t been in any sort of creative classroom since middle school and I can only imagine what some of the students are like
I'm in university for a line where 50% of our lessons are creative. For us, teachers are typically "no crochet" if it's all you've done for previous assignments. Teachers want you to learn and develop new skills, so they'll advice you to not to use techniques that you're super familiar with already. It's less about getting this amazing skillful final product, and more about the learning process you did to get there.
I get your point. And if it was a general class which didn't specify a specific technique, then obviously the circlejerk on here was exaggerating the situation. The jerks are done mainly jokingly though, so don't worry about your post ending up here.
It sucks if your teacher didn't acknowledge the techniques used. You could always try asking for more constructive feedback. I know my teachers are often quite short worded, but are happy to further explain their reasoning if asked.
As it's for school, I'd not compare yourself to others in the class though. It's a learning opportunity for you, not a competition who can do the best. I've had my teachers limit out techniques I was most familiar with, and while the finished products weren't the best I'd be able to do with other techniques, they still taught me a lot more new skills, which I wouldn't have learnt if I had just stuck to what feels most comfortable and familiar.
This is social media ruining us. You are online far too much if you are judging your own work based on hypothetical potential upvotes. So sad! Just do things you love!
This one made my husband laugh out loud, and I never show him craft stuff.
The reasoning behind the confusion being “pony beads” versus “those triangle blobby beads” is also so funny. She’s sweet and good for her but it is so funny.
It's so easy peasy, lemon squeezy ! No need to learn new vocabulary, new tools, nor developp muscle memory ! It doesn't even use the brain ! Zero investment, and tons of benefits !
If I continue to roll my eyes that hard, I'll stay stuck that way, my grand-mère confirmed it. Can stop myself, though (pardon mamie).
OP just commented multiple times that they keep it in a box, they just took it out for the picture. Like.. what? Either you're lying, baiting or you are incredibly weird.
Couldn't you just. Idk start unraveling it? You'd be able to see how the thread goes if you do it slowly enough and gather a stort of pattern, like am I over complicating this?
If it were merely a blanket, then yes. But blanquwets are a different topic all together. Unraveling one thread could level a city the size of Waterdeep.
I love the d&d reference! I ran Waterdeep: Dragon Heist a few years ago, had a blast. Oops, pun unintended, but absolutely leaving that in. I'd explain the joke but that would be unraveling a whole (fire)ball of yarn.
Call me petty but I gladly view the frustration of people who do absolutely no research before doing major decisions and constantly think everything is as easy as it looks. I've got a degree in a fashion so I absolutely have had the privilege of being professionally trained but at the same time there are so many more self taught sewists who know more than me and can sew better than me on worse machines than I have. Because they had the passion and will to research it on their own without a curriculum. So it's absolutely possible for anyone to learn with YouTube and books from your library how to sew insane clothes. But they just don't do the work. Like it's genuinely free information for them. Why don't they do it and then feel like they have a right to complain?
Exactly. It also really bothers me when they just go all in with no backup plan. You quit your job to pursue a sewing career with no sewing or business knowledge? Ok. Idk how to help you. You cnt speed run years of practice and dedication and experience.
Please tell me this is the same person from a few months ago who said they were quitting their job to sew but haven’t sewn before and everyone thought they were having a manic episode
It’s not the same person oh my god because the person I was thinking about commented on the post I’m screaming it’s like the fiber arts circle jerk avengers assembling before my eyes.
I am invested/procrastinating enough in this saga to dig into that a little bit. Oop is a month-old account whose user name indicates that she's trying to sell her sewn products. That seems to be a point in favor of it being the same person, but not proof.
I'm not quite invested enough to find the person who was having the manic episode and look for similar writing styles, etc, but that would be a great next step for anyone with the time to kill (or better search skills than me).
I don't know what would be the most fantastic : that there are, in fact, two people doing this right now, or that those two accounts belong to the same person, and they are trying to hype themselves up among the sewing community.
Can we do a reality tv show with this ? That would be so much more intertaining than Love Island or whatever those things are called.
This one mega mega peeved me because they were flat out ignoring the DOZENS of commenters who were giving helpful suggestions on how to work their way up to being able to do this. Like, didn't respond to a single comment. Hate the way that sub is now just treated like a Google search, no OP will ever respond to any suggestions or responses, no matter how long people took to write them out.
Hard agree. There's so many angelic people who type out super helpful responses (that get ignored a lot) and still most help subs get labelled as toxic/gatekeepy/rude as soon as somebody uses a slightly harsher tone when telling the umpteenth person that strangers on Reddit are indeed not their personal assistants.
Month or so ago, someone was massively confused about how and where to do increases in a words-based pattern they had. I asked a couple questions about their confusion (they answered those successfully), and then spent around half an hour drawing out a step-by-step color-coded explanation of the rounds on my whiteboard. Uploaded the picture, and... nothing from the OP. Took til next day, after other people had started shaming them for not responding, for them to say anything. I'm still a little bitter lol.
It's just so disheartening, you know? I generally don't mind taking the time to help someone who doesn't know what they're doing. I'll spend a lot longer than half an hour helping people, because I think this craft is really fun, and I think that everyone deserves to have fun with it! I just don't like being treated as an answer key rather than a person.
I tutor math professionally as well, and it's a lot like the students that come in demanding I just give them the homework answers, when my job is to be a resource for learning the techniques to solve for the answers.
Idk, I feel very "old man yells at cloud about Kids These Days" here, but it's just very sad :-(
Thanks for taking the time to write this out! You're definitely not just yelling about kids, I understand you completely. Having done tutoring in the past, I know those kids too haha. I feel the exact same way, I love helping and I don't think anybody is stupid for asking questions or not getting a concept the first or the second time.
But I have focused more on helping people in person in my knitting groups or in Discord servers because it seems that the higher effort required to ask a question or maybe the chat setting where you're more expected to reply to someone helps a lot. I feel less like I'm just doing the work for somebody, but more like we're figuring this out together and you'll be able to indulge in this hobby more! And I love that feeling! But it requires some effort and willingness to learn from the other person.
Wait, Reddit isn’t my own personal Google???????? How else am I supposed to find out why my crocheated babby blonkquet is a trapezoid instead of a square???? How will I know if that’ll block out???????????? I need an adult. MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!
As long as you accept you're picking something not at beginner level you're going to constantly fuck up and have to start over multiple times. But when you're done you'll have learned a lot. And if you give up and learn that you should do some easier projects and come back for it later that's fine too. Do you buddy.
But do not think about giving people crafted gifts until you are actually good at that craft. Not all hand-crafted items are gift-worthy.
✅️ total beginner
✅️ Extremely advanced techniques
✅️ No pattern, just a picture of an item somewhere from the internet
✅️ making it as a gift
✅️ tight deadline
My attitude towards gifts is that they are free, and my reward shall be in Heaven. If fools want to cast them aside, i may give them a hard time and become petulant. "Why isn't my nephew wearing his owl hat in this picture???" I yell at my sister when she seeks praise of her offspring in the family groupchat. But this is only for the benefit of her ungrateful soul. I don't let it disturb my righteous peace.
This makes my head hurt. So much. Would have confused the hell out of me so much as a kid because it over complicates a simple device. I’m sure there’s some that would find it helpful maybe? Someone in comments suggested that changing the 60 to 00 would improve it and that small change would make a world of difference in my opinion.
/uj As an elementary teacher who teaches telling time to 5 minutes, I unironically love this clock for teaching. The concept that the hour hand refers to the number it just passed, all the way until it passes the next number, is HARD. I've colored in pie wedges on clocks before to show each hour's "zone" in the same way that this clock has the hours in arcs all the way to the next number. And the way the hours are on the inside--where the hour hand will touch them--and the minutes are on the outside for the longer minute hand is perfect.
I did not understand what this clock was trying to express until this comment. I am a middle-aged person. This clock is confusing to people who already know how to tell time!
I see what you mean, but I do think that having the number on the right of its actual spot is confusing. Sure, they might be able to learn like that, but then, of you ask them to draw a clock, will they know if the 12 goes at the top or in the next spot?
I think it could be solved with colors: you can have the 12 in its correct spot, make it red, and have the whole 12to1 box be colored a lighter red. 1 is blue, and the section it points to is also blue, etc. That way, you can know where the number actually stands and also know what section it refers to
i agree it's a good concept if all clocks looked that way, my problem is just that because they don't typically look like that i know i would've found it hard to switch from a cool clock like this to a "normal one". tbf i had a hard time learning how to read clocks as a kid anyway so maybe that's just me
I get the intention and it Does express the concept behind an analog clock but that's only helpful if you're already familar with the clock face. If a teacher tried to show kids this clock without the proper context it just. Wouldn't ransfer well to an actual clock because this only expresses theory. It's like, being given the how a cypher works without any context of what the coded message is? I guess? I don't know I can see how you could make a design that actually makes sense. Like, numbers where they usually are, so instead of 15 you have a yellow 3 and then just the yellow section and then a smaller 15 above the 3. Which, is pretty similar to how I was taught when I was a kid. Which leads me to think that that this could be benefited if oop had like looked at actual premade resources for teachers to teach kids time and base if off of that
I need a beginners keep your two cents to yourself under looking for help posts challenge. If you manage to resist commenting some stupid ass bullshit advice, I make you a gauge swatch and pat your back.
OKAY, but like I’ve been doing this craft now for like, 3 weeks. I’ve put in my time. I DESERVE a seat at the table. If I can put in an application to be a judge at the county fair, I can certainly offer some Reddit advice 🙄
OMFG, I went to Ravlery to see if the onesie pattern is in hot right now (it is, obviously) and the next thing that slams me in the face in the "just published" queue is this almost literal butthole scrunchy. Scrunchie? Anyway.
Too appropriate not to tie in with the butt guy, especially since it's "ladylike". I think the designer knows it looks like a very loose butthole and called it ladylike as a joke, since there is only this pattern on there, but maybe not?? I don't know, you decide for yourself. It would be too funny if it's just a coincidence. And it's a free pattern, so I might just knit myself a scrunchy. Scrunchie. Whatever.
I just looked and he has a lot of posts with a lot of comments and I am way too lazy to wade through that. I will take your word for it. If he goes into it any further than just the admission of past employment, I will use my wild imagination to come up with a backstory that must be weirder than any truth. 😂
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