Category: Rants
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Moths have no place in the stash
I am not ashamed to say I have a stash. It started, as I think many of them do, as a few left over hanks, some gift yarn, and those yummy skeins you cannot leave behind when you see them. It has grown. This is natural for their species. I…
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Why I Hate AI Crochet
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Social media and pattern sights are now rife with AI crochet. It is everywhere and nearly everyone who crochets and suffers the horrors of social media has had someone send them some stupid AI image and ask them to make it up for them. Of…
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There’s chocolate on this project!
Estimated reading time: Three minutes It’s been a freaking month here indeed! I should have known how this season would go when I started humming Counting Crows “Long December” to myself in early December and thinking it really had been a long December already. It was maybe the third. The…
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Say Yuck to Green
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Everyone has a favorite color. Mine is periwinkle. There’s something about that purply-blue color that brings me joy. I have vacillated since childhood between a true blue and periwinkle as my favorite, but I have never reached outside the bounds of blue’s cool and serene…
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Crochet needs a voice and I’m ready to scream
Estimated reading time: 18 minutes Crochet needs so much more yarn than knitting. (An idea entirely dependent upon stitch pattern. If you are trying to imitate knitting and use a single, half-double, or double crochet, then yes. This is true. If you are using an open, lacy stitch pattern, this…
Cat Mad Crochet 