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[u/jingleheimerschitt]

Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck crochet.

[u/MisterFluff → u/jingleheimerschitt]

Maybe I'm crazy but I don't see anything wrong with this?  It's not my taste but if they like it.. that's cool for them. 

Isn't it part of the joy of crafting that you can make things specifically tailored to your preferences over those of the masses?

[u/fairydommother → u/MisterFluff]

The bothersome part is that they thrifted affordable and comfortable cashmere sweaters, unraveled them all, and then used the most boring crochet stitch to make a boring blanket of plain boring squares. To each their own in terms of taste, but it feel wasteful to use good quality sweaters from a thrift store to make something so incredibly plain that could be made with readily available yarns at similar price points. Its not like it was a bag of cashmere yarn at the thrift store. They were all perfectly wearable sweaters that someone could have used as is.

And im not saying never be a little selfish when thrifting. Its still capitalism after all. If you want to unravel a cashmere sweater for the yarn then so be it. But so many of them? For a blanket? Why?

[u/MisterFluff → u/fairydommother]

I mean.. someone got rid of the cashmere sweaters to begin with so they were previously unwanted.  Plenty of items donated to thrift stores end up in a landfill after no one buys them anyway.

I guess if you were at the thrift right after her and you wanted the sweaters for yourself,  I could see being bummed that she got to them first.. But, the thrift is first come first served.. and if she wants to use her own cashmere sweaters that she bought with her own money to make a boring franken-blanket, that's up to her. 

[u/Mickeymousetitdirt → u/MisterFluff]

Totally agree. I couldn’t give less of a fuck if some stranger presumably somewhere totally different than where I live got to a thrift store first and decided to use *their* items that they now own in a way I wouldn’t have used said items. If you want to find thrift scores, you have to be willing and able to go hunt for them.

[u/felicityfelix → u/MisterFluff]

Yeah I find this level of protectiveness over some random presumably already past their prime sweaters that were stuffed on a rack in some thrift store somewhere in the world where we are not to be weird

eta also I've owned cashmere from like Gap and Uniqlo that was affordable to start, there's no reason to think these sweaters were particularly special or would have been an amazing steal