Air Your Craft-Related Grievances!

[gnomi]

(and it's not even Festivus)

I'll start:

Center-pull balls that don't. I shouldn't have to stop in the middle of my sock to untangle the gob of yarn that just spewed forth.

Grrrr!

Comments

[betra.livejournal.com]

ARG! Metallic threads and flosses that break, shred, ravel, and all around just suck! You might think all metallic gold looks the same but only ONE DMC metallic gold is any good, (I believe it is the antique gold) and if you get the wrong one and switch golds in the middle of something, it shows.

And might I also recommend Madeira metallics. I have used their gold thread in my sewing machine to quilt, and it was fantastic! I have the silver too, my Sew & Vac store was having a 2 for 1 special so I stocked up on the stuff.

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I HATE HATE HATE metallic thread with a purple passion.

Also, those flosses that are clear but iridescent? They suck too.

[betra.livejournal.com]

Any of those suck. And the crap that is basically fishing line. THAT sucks.

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Hee - great minds think alike!

[betra.livejournal.com]

Get it while the getting is good!

Craft Paints

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

That are already dried out old flakes when you buy them -- let me wreck my paint on my own, thank you very much.

Or bolts of fabric that have huge discolorations hiding six folds in.

Unfaithful fabric

[betra.livejournal.com]

Black fabric that mysteriously developes a white pull line when you drop in a quilter's knot makes me want to cry. (hangs head)

[ghilledhu.livejournal.com]

Metallic embroidery floss. It's stiff, it kinks, it tangles, it comes out of the needle, and then it splits apart so you can't re-thread it easily.

Also: Why can I get silk fabric at any place in the fabric district, but there are a grand total of TWO places to get silk thread?

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Knitpick's small (sock gauge) wooden needle tips break. I've received them broken (which were promptly replaced by the company) and I've broken them myself (and just switched to the metal ones I already owned.) It's a shame because I like the way the wooden needles grab the yarn.

I have given up on center-pull balls. Even if there are no tangles, the balls will eventually collapse into a mess. I still wind them, of course, because that's what comes off the ballwinder or the nostepinne, but I knit from the outside.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Brittany has a five-year replacement policy on its needles. Which is good, because over the course of one pair of socks I snapped three size 1 birch needles. And they don't really even require proof of purchase.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

I know - I've had them replace needles in the past - once. They don't make circulars, though, and that's what I use for everything these days.

[byrne.livejournal.com]

lack of time to knit, spin or weave.

*sigh*

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

Silly bunny, you just need the time tree: pluck a leaf, get an extra hour.

I'd send you some leaves from mine, but the branches are suspiciously bare.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

I hate when I run out of embroidery floss in the needle with one stitch left in the color I'm working on. I've been known to go to some extreme measures to avoid this.

I am with you on the "yarn barf". I'm knitting an illusion-patterned scarf, meaning I need two rows of each color at a time. I started with one color that was so tangled I probably had to pull 30 yards out before it actually pulled. ARGH!

[perpet.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, that's up there with my peeves, too. I hate that.

Um...

People who watch me crochet, ask what I'm doing, and when I tell them crocheting, ask me how long I've been knitting.

Yarns that shed.

Mostly-used up skeins that I have no use for that I must eventually throw away. I hate throwing away yarn.

[cellio]

I hate it when the ship tosses and turns through the entire flight; isn't stabilizer technology past that by now?

Oh, not that kind of craft. Never mind...

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

:-P

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Center-pull balls that have so successfully hidden which is the center-pull end that I just give up and start from an end at random.

Not being able to get a pattern designed quite right, even though I've been fiddling with it on and off for most of a decade.

[ianrandalstrock.livejournal.com]

For we non-knitters (us non-knitters?) the phrase "I shouldn't have to stop in the middle of my sock" is quite nice all unto itself.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks!