👋 A FEW THINGS I WANTED TO REITERATE: 1. In this video, I focused on how crochet can only be produced by hand, not by machine. However, simply stating this fact doesn’t mean I’m against knitting machines that emulate crochet stitches-quite the opposite! I’m actually fascinated by them. 2. Stating that crochet is handmade doesn’t imply that machine-made processes don’t involve human labor or even potentially exploit workers, such as seamstresses or weavers, who operate these machines. My statement is solely to emphasize that crochet cannot be automated. 3. That said, I am not against automation! On the contrary, I’m a lover of technological innovation. I believe in eliminating human exploitation and educating myself (and others, where possible) about how to embrace technology to create a fairer, freer, and better world for everyone. 🌎
I hate how crochet growing in popularity has led to more fast fashion, not people thinking “oh maybe I should crochet too!” I feel like crocheting is all about sustainability and enjoying the process of making it. :(
@CactusLadyCreation Indeed, but one thing to note, how many full time employees want to spend outside of their 40 minimum hour workweek, to then crochet or knit? The answer: only those who love to do it. Fast fashion actually a necessary evil for most hourly workers, pressed for heavily inflated money and quite diminished home time. That, and many people post technological age struggle with patience and entitlement issues, so there's that.
@@CactusLadyCreation I would call it a different things, more a mixture of cronyism, globalist, consumerism, high technocracy, etc. Also, other trends in the workplace following WWII, which inadvertently abolished the textile industry in the United States. (Which, to be fair, was kind of a dying art since the industrial revolution.)
@@CactusLadyCreation I mean, agreed, I'm trying to teach myself how to sew, and like to crochet, as well, so I agree that clothes making domestically needs to be salvaged. But, on a mass scale, that would take a societal and ideological changes, especially in regards to convenience, which, is a hard discussion nowadays. Thrifting does seem to knock the need to recycle, and the need to buy affordable, though, though quality varies.
While this is all true and crochet is especially taxing and time consuming. We shouldn't forget that every clothing piece that is sewn has been sewn by a human. Yes we have sewing machines but those still need to be manually operated, there is almost no clothing that is completely machine produced.
Thank you! I see "crochet can not be made by machine" so often but people always miss that its just a more VISIBLE example of exploitation in fast fashion not the only one. I have legit seen people say they were glad to see something wasn't crochet because that meant it wasn't made exploitedly. ...But it was still an under priced piece made in a sweatshop. Its like people think machine made means it was just auto printed out without any human labor
@@twistedmaidn Absolutely! All fast fashion is exploitive. I'm discussing specifically crochet in this video, as I am a crocheter and wanted to just stay on topic with that this video. Perhaps in a video soon I'll have to specifically explore machine made exploration in fashion. Please let me know if there is something specific you'd like to see.
I think crochet is faster than knit. I think it is easier. The aspect of the crochet method I don’t care for is the amount of yarn in a stitch. It feels thick and stiff.
I'm so often ranting to my partner how incredible it is that we start from something so simple as a yarn and end up with a piece of clothing, object or art at the end! Never stops to amaze me 😊
I prefer sewing, but it’s definitely more costly than crochet. Sewing machines can be expensive. Crochet is also more personal since sewing machines make even stitches. I commend anyone who knits or crochets. I wouldn’t be able to do it myself
I don't mind machine made. BUT!! Crochet MAKES me slow down, feeds my creativity, gives me a sense of accomplishment when I have completed a difficult, long running pattern, gives me an appreciation for the art and artist, keeps my old hands oiled and most of all makes me remember my Granny who taught me the art of crochet. GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO! THANKS FOR SHARING!!
I heard once that a machine cannot crochet because it would have to make movements in 72 directions, which is extremely difficult. Knitting and weaving involve a much smaller number of directions and it's a lot easier to create a machine for.
I started crocheting at the beginning of this year but there’s nothing like the feeling of accomplishment finishing a project and looking at the scarf/plushie/thing you made and knowing I made this!
Thanks for bringing up ethically sourced crocheted items. Another good source for crocheted items is thrift stores. Many lovely granny square throws end up there.
So true. And you can finish them or make them bigger using different yarns and colors to compliment the original. With crochet it's easy to just start adding on.
I clicked because of the gorgeous top you’re wearing 🤩 I love the color palette, and it suits you so well. Edit: Oh, it was a dress! I love it even more. Beautiful work
The thing I really love about the crochet online community is the CAL’s. There’s some thing about gradually learning a new technique, sharing your progress, the type and colors of yarn, and frustration with learning the new technique with others doing the same project. Everyone keeps encouraging you and sharing their own challenges with it. Then seeing the final results of people using different materials and different skill levels. Especially since nobody is discouraging. I have yet to find a discouraging remark, only tips on how to improve.
I learned to crochet in the 70’s, my grandma taught me. Even though I never learned to knit, it does have an elegance that is not achieved with crochet. Crochet will always have that crafty handmade vibe. It has come a long way, there were few patterns and most weren’t something you wanted to make in the first place. Needlecrafts have become so incredibly expensive. I’m allergic to acrylic and for me to crochet an Afghan would cost hundreds of dollars. I occasionally make small things like purses and caps but I’ve pretty much put the hooks in storage.
I'm not opposed entirely to machine production, because some forms of automation take a human out of a dangerous or overly laborious situation. But I don't like products that aren't designed to last. I want my toilet paper disposable, not my clothes or my phone. I have a few specialty retailers I shop from online that source their products (sewn garments) more ethically, but it does lead to an increase in the cost. Now, I've also never had to throw any of them out, because they've stayed in good condition. But the up front investment of $100 in a shirt isn't nothing.
You might find the history of lace making interesting. Lace used to be a savings account, basically, when people had to appeal to a small, wealthy class, to get any of the big ticket things in life taken care of. Sound familiar? Lace was a way of having welfare for women, girls, nuns, and people with disabilities who could still sit down, and make lace inside. The big chapel veils? They were often made by nuns, or whole communities, and the women who wore them were flexing their worth, basically saying, 'Look, this is how much my community will invest in me. I'm high value. Take me seriously.' The nuns who made the lace, were known not to be able to afford their own pieces, though, and it was a way of punishing the celibate women for not getting married. This isn't some totally beneficial history, and that people can't organize to simply care for each other without spending their lives on an onerous task, and trading their suffering for what they need, is a tragedy. However, because the lace took hours and hours of meticulous work to make, people (women) could sit down with basic materials, and plug away, leave their projects in their hope chests for decades, and then put them on the market in a time of need, for a good price. There was even a town that suffered a serious crop failure, and they got an older woman out of retirement to teach them all lace making, and they made enough to eat and survive. When it wasn't so easy to make everything, the worth of what people made was enough to finance a social safety net. Isn't that incredible? I don't love the idea of anyone having to sit down in a factory most days of their lives, and crank out clothes, and anything that dispenses with that, is in some way to be appreciated. Automation is one way. Decreasing expectation of production is another way. And finally, there is the possibility of more people reaching first to produce what they need, themselves, and everyone supporting a class of experts for the really choice pieces and occasions. Funny how when women stole the show, becoming a professional class of mantua makers, the men decided draping, colorful dress was beneath them, and then over a century later women were encouraged to produce clothes from home to kill the mantua maker businesses, and the millinery businesses. The makers and the professionals were pitted against each other, instead of being able to lift up each other's worth. If they had been working in lace, which takes so much time, for every single piece, I wonder if that would have been possible. Crochet poses similar questions, and it had a hey day in the 1970's as a Black liberation practice. It contests Capitalism, especially run away, out of control forms of it.
I don’t want my toilet paper disposable - I’m sick of that too. With a bidet I just dry my clean butt off after with a cloth and throw that in the bathroom laundry bin.
@@sierrasukalski2133 That's such a great point and funny you mention lacemaking because I have actually been wanting to learn the lacemaking practice. It's such a gorgeous art form. I'd also love to learn more about everything you mentioned 🤗✨If you have any suggested books I would love to know! 📚
My first foray into crochet, was when I bought 'Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker' book. It was a revelation to me, especially as someone who had kind of failed at knitting, just how beginner friendly crochet was. That same day, and in one evening, I made a long scallop edged scarf with a beautiful multi-coloured yarn. I love how forgiving crochet is.😄
I crochet my own blankets because of me a taller man I usually can't find a proper throw blanket without spending an arm and a leg so that's what I mostly make and enjoy doing
I have been crocheting for nearly 15 years now, just learned to knit a year ago. I find I like both. To me I think crochet is easier only because it just has a hook and if you drop a stitch or have to frog, it's easier than knitting. I don't have a preference, now I can look at both sides and make a project/pattern that catches my fancy. But I am glad I now know how to do both.
That's so true! Frogging is much easier with crochet than knitting. Mistakes with knitting can be stressful 😅 I hope to get more confident with knitting very soon 🤗✨
Plus there are times when you need to sort of sculpt a crochet item and these "mistakes" can look and fit better. Crochet is very sculptural and lends itself to making motifs which can be lovely in a garment.
I must admit I was alarmed by crochet garments hitting the fast fashion racks. Knowing the time and the toll on one's body (through repetitive actions) to make such garments. I mentioned this to a freind, and they said why? They're getting paid fairly for their local economy. Umm, no, they're in sweatshops and probably fined if they're not fast enough. Crochet is very hard on the body. I love to do it, but I have rsi from a job in my 20s and have had to manage it for over 20yrs. I now work full time as a potter which allows me to be switching up my hand movements all the time, but because I make tools for fibre and textile garments, and sell a fibre and textile shows around around the UK, I am deeply immersed in the indie dyer and pattern designer community, and this sort of discussion pops up frequently. The ethical side of our particular community, the parts we play in it etc etc. Also plagiarism and outright copyright theft -looking right at you temu! Do better.
It just is so wrong. We are the literal definition of SLOW crafting or slow art. Why would our art be encompassed fast fashion?!? They need to put our art down and pay artists a fair wage for crocheted goods. We are artisans who have learned a skill, honed it and share it with the world Fast fashion is 🥺 not something my values align with and it hurts that my fellow artisans are being forced to do jobs that take their skill and exploit it.
I know right it is the antithetical to the reason why many of us crochet in the first place isn't it 😓 then we get to fast fashion houses straight up stealing artists work. It was too much to put into this video - that's another whole can of worms 🪱
Very cool video! As I sit here crocheting holiday gifts for my friends, I am stitching love into every piece I make :) it’s a way to try and step back from consumerism and slow down to see all the effort it takes to make both clothing and accessories. Really puts a lot into perspective concerning artisans forced to work in sweatshops :(
I’ve been knitting and crocheting for many, many, many years. I enjoy knitting much more however I feel crocheting is much, much faster. I can crochet something in 1/2 the time it takes to knit.
This is such a well produced video, can't believe it didn't received more attention. Maybe because the topic is more niche but I really enjoyed. I feelt very inspired to learn more about crochet! ♡
2:19 re:rivalry, every time I hear this I go, no no no, not on my watch!!! Fiber arts in general is a dying art (in my opinion) so I celebrate all my fiber artists friends even if I just crochet and make friendship bracelets; we must squash the rivalry for the better of ALL fiber arts!
Yes it's a shame but I find my interest no less reduced. Sewing embroidery, darning, crochet...I am fascinated. I didn't want to make sourdough during the pandemic so I learned to darn my wool socks and that started a hunt for holey cashmere pieces to darn and fix. I'm finding so much cashmere to use I'm darning these pieces and then using them to make larger sewn together blankets. They look fun and they are so soft. Seems like everything I want from the thrift store needs some fixing and I'm here for it. Just bought an emerald green wool serape with Mexican style embroidery all over it. That is going to be fun to fix and wear. I wish people would be more interested in learning these hand skills. They yield so much satisfaction. If people don't do handicrafts what do they find satisfaction in making?
Fast fashion is always cheap (inexpensive) and cheap (low or lower quality). Yet, it is extremely expensive (at great cost to the people working in the sweat shops). High fashion is typically much greater in quality, but sadly, still often made in sweat shops. In the world today, unfortunately, it is very difficult to get away from sweat shops, either because the cost is beyond reach of the masses, and/or access to non-sweat shop products. Making our clothes and other home textiles does remove one stage of the sweat shop, and that is a good thing, but there are other stages of the process to consider. Were the fabric and yarn made in sweat shops? Were the cotton and linen farmed ethically? Where the sheep farmed ethically and humanely? Were the dyes used to color the fabric and yarn made in sweat shops under humane conditions? It can be very disheartening, but every step we take is meaningful and important. When i see a super cute a blouse, for example, at a “great” price, all i can think is “It would hardly cost me anything to buy it, but at great cost the people who made it. No thank you.” Making our own and/or buying from makers/artists is worth every penny you pay.
Such a great point and not enough conversations happens for high fashion being made in sweat shops as well! I'll have to dive more into that topic soon. Also materials open up a whole new can of worms 😅... It's for this reason that growing, spinning, and dyeing my own yarn and textiles is an ultimate dream. 🤗✨ Hopefully one day! 🤞
I want to try crochet as that seems like the way to do frills while having it be texturally consistent with Woven Shrugs. Although what Im fuzzy about: Im not sure how different colored yarn blends. The loom I use is really meant for making tapestries to mount paintings though.
There is no crochet machine, BUT I saw on Facebook someone is doing machine embroidery which resembles crochet. It's horrid. I'm for the future and love technology, bit there are thing which cannot be reproduced, or maybe should not be.
Thanks for sharing this important info! I’d love to see a video on ethical fast fashion companies. It is frustrating how challenging it can be to understand the origins of the things we consume.
Very informative ..I love crochet I love the feeling it gives to know I created something from just a ball of yarn.i think it's magical.thank you for sharing.i used to knit a lot too ..but I think I love crochet more.💝💝💝
This video is totally on point. Crochet is definitely being used in some countries to exploit workers who deserve better . Also , The fake crochet is hurting those who are true to the craft. The pricing of these online retailers is an insult to the Art.
Love your sweater. I learned to make granny squares from my Grandmother as a child. I remember a favorite crochet vest and crochet poncho made for me by my Nana in the 60's.
I think I want as sustainable a wardrobe as possible, so I buy pieces I love not necessarily fashion pieces but as I want to look like me and no one else I think that is it's own cool. Once I made my first wearable, just a few weeks ago and it came out beautiful, I was hooked, I want as many homemade pieces as possible. Slower but so much better. I think rebelling against capitalism is always good and can have an impact on lives and the planet.
I was taught to crochet by my Great Grandmother in the 70's. She exclusively made Tams and that's all I learned to make. As a kid I loved my granny square blankets to make forts because you could see out and the colors were pretty. By the time Stitch and Bitch knitting groups became popular I had taught myself to knit but there was something about crochet that kept drawing me back to projects like granny square blankets. I love the portability of crochet. I can take 3 small balls of yarn and one hook and make several granny squares so my granny square blankets go quite quickly. I love the almost stained glass effect. I often buy partially finished or small crochet blankets at the thrift store and finish or make them bigger with my own stitch patterns and complimentary colors. I probably wouldn't do that with a knitted blanket. I never understood why crochet was not popular but then attended a costume museum show of Vivienne Westwood and was surprised to see a lot of crochet pieces. Crochet pretty much had a surge in popularity in the 1970's while knitting seems to have become more popular in the 90's.
My sister🙄. I told her that only humans crochet, no machine, no computer can do this so she googled "crochet machine" and pulled up hundreds of knitting machines advertised as crochet machines. 😖
I had to move from knitting to crochet due to wrist problems. I've grown to love it. I've been really concerned about the exploitation of crocheters. I feel it's best to not support it. I love the uniqueness of crochet. I make scarves to give away. People love them.
Also I have been avoiding yarns containing Rayon because of the health effects it has on the workers and I heard that there may be concerns about the bamboo viscose too.
Thanks so much! I'd love to dive more into knitting machines and ethical fabrics. I'll have to research more about rayon and bamboo viscose - that's super interesting. ✨
@@LennyLefebvre-qb6qx Well said! I was recently reading a consumer article that said they tested a bunch of different "bamboo sheets" and found that none of them contained bamboo fiber. 😮 I'm thankful for videos like this because I feel like the more informed we become as consumers, the more empowered we are to make decisions that help other people and the environment.
I love weird and quirky clothes.. Like my favourite winter hat is still a reindeer shaped one, what I bought in tesco's child clothing aisle some 10 years ago. But you can't get these cute weird clothes in adult sizes... So I picked up crocheting, because if I can't buy an animal shaped scarf, then I'll make it myself. And the thing I love about it the most, is how much joy it can cause to random people. My first project was an opossum shaped scarf and when I wear it cashiers in the stores often comment on it how cute it is and makes them smile. Or there was this time, when an elderly lady came up to me in the metro and asked where did I get it from, because she would like to buy one for her grandkid. When I told her that I did it, she took a closer look and realized it's crocheted and gave me some tips (because that scarf is wonky as heck if you take a closer look, but hey it was my first finisehd project). Idk it feels nice, when something I made can spark some joy in some random bypasser.
I do crochet and knitting, I like both but for different purposes. I think knit clothes more comfortable then crochet, but crochet is better when you need support. So I like crochet in hats, purses, cropped, beach clothes and decorative things, like dolls and table towels. And I like knitting in sweaters, skirts, pants, blankets, and other comfy clothing and accessories, like scarfs or hoodies, socks and gloves.
As much as I hate the fake-crochet, knitting replicas, because they're scummy and deceiving, I'd rather purchase that than get real crochet items from a fast-fashion company that was probably entirely made by a person getting paid nowhere near what they were supposed to. Shame on those companies. I'd rather make it.
I dont know how on topic i am, but my problem with crochet and knitting it how i cant see a ball of yern and think of it as something i could wear. Maybe i am so used to our modern world where we rarely make our own cloths anymore, maybe its my sensory issues that make it really hard for me to wear things that have a lot of texture to them like crocheted/knitted clothes. My only solution to my clothing consuption is to either use hand-me-downs from fanily or buy fast fashion only once in a blue moons (which also works out with my sensory issues because i hate trying on new things), but in a round-about way i still end up supporting those terible businesses
I am enjoying the video so far, I would definitely want to watch a video about more affordable ethical clothing. I also love the dress so beautiful, what did you decide what colors to use?
Thanks so much - okay lovely thanks for letting me know 🤗✨ Also I made it using the all in one granny square yarn by red heart, they have some pretty cool colorways 🩷
I personaly don't get the dispute. I do both and I like both. Both have ther place in garment making. Rght now I am knitting a nice and warm sewter and crotchet a pair of slipers.
I think the rivalry is silly, it’s all personal taste. I just love calling yall hookers though 🤣 I also say that I’m addicted to the needle so it goes both ways 😊
Yes I did 🤗 ooh I hope you do! I have a video tutorial on how to make it on this channel here if you wanna check it out 💕 th-cam.com/video/v0866hc3vcs/w-d-xo.html
@@CactusLadyCreation I'm unable to edit my comment on mobile, but it's a dress!! And the skeleton corset and spiderweb wrap? Subbed. Double subbed. How do I go back and sub 2 years ago? In all seriousness, I've been looking for something outside of the standard "scarf, hat, sweater, blanket" quadfecta in most crochet content.
Here's hope: how do you think nature does some things? I'm a physicist who used weaving, knitting & crocheting techniques to figure out how nature behaves, how everything is created. DNA? The Vordian Knot? Two strand intarsia crocheting reasons it and another solution then is: seee knot theory, intarsia crocheting, how to turn a star into a square - they need computers to do the geometry for them so it's not the work of any human man no matter what they claim as there's a difference between work vs a job - and so also see the slip knot. Who says the only solution to the Gordian Knot Problem is to cut it? That's on TH-cam already, how to turn a star into a granny square as are demonstrations of "working the back". A ton of stuff that male physicists flatlout deny or can but will not discover? The 'secret' is in the ancient arts when Weaving is one of them. If you look? In some ancient cultures a boy was given a sword and a girl a spindle at borth. Not as she's inferior! That exactly shaped spindle? Is the key to their calendar system of measures, weights & coins. It represents the differential. See Sumer, it's base 60 system and it's ellipse like spindle, it turns gears. Their calendar looks like gears and sets of them. That's why and how you can relate calendars & clocks to this. Native wampum belts? Not money! Sacred objects. Weaving! The value? You know what pattern to weave! If you don't know what pattern to weave? No value. They resemble the print out of a DNA test. Everything is symbolic. Symbols? Infinite! So we use different word labels in different fields - jargon meant to keep ppl out? Keep ppl uninformed? - and we don't recognize it's the same thing over again at a point but it's part of a repeating pattern in the same field or it's the same concept in a different field. We're on repeat in every field and men still refuse to consider not believe all things labeled "woman" or they cannot justify their SENSE of superiority so their deplorable behavior. The answers rest in what men ignore and deny: women and the supposed womanly arts, 😁🗽
I'm on the fence. Yes, fast fashion is overall bad, it polutes the Earth and making people believe that they need a brand new wardrobe each reason. BUT on the other hand it gives work to many people. My mum used to work gor a lady who was selling garmets with our traditional embroidery. My mum spent a whole week doing one and got £6 for that. They wouldn't give her more and my mum had no other option to work from home. We were lucky, it wasn't lunch money, more like her cigarette money. Yes it would have been nice if she get more but then the end garment would have been so pricey that noone would buy it. If those cheap fast fashion clothes companie swould pay mkre for the workers, they wouldn't sell it the same price and people wouldn't buy so those poor workers would be jobless or would find an even more horrible job. There was a time when I tried to avoid these clothes. But then my friend, who is from Bangladesh, said that buying made in Bangladesh clothes are good for his countries economy and he is always prefer clothes made in his country. Meanwhile human nature is that we always want more. We can't expect that some clothes are out of our frice range so we're buying fakes or poorly made ones. People rather have 10 bad quality clothes than 1 good one which cost x10 more than the bad one.
Maybe someone has corrected you but you have your centuries wrong. Fast fashion rose writh the victorians in the mid to late 19th century. And everything you can say about worker treatment overseas you could have said about workers in the U.S. a hundred years ago. The gilded age was only golden for the same 1%.
I understand your assertion, while the Victorian era did see a rise in mass-produced clothing, specifically the modern fast-fashion model emerged in the 1970s and the phrase was coined in the 1990s. Alas, there is nothing new under the sun ☀
You shouldn't diminish the skill set it takes to be a tailor, a knitter and a crocher You state, that by learning just a few stitches, you can make a piece of art. That's simply not true, for a variety of reasons. First of all, it takes patience to work for long hours, unpaid, risking, that the outcome is not what you envisioned. Second, you can't just do nedelwork. You have to learn it, like playing an instrument. Third, nedelwork is expensive. Even the cheapest wool costs more than fast- fashion. Third. People underestimate the time and the level of creativity it takes to produce something beautiful. A personal remarc: I don't like the idea, that something is easy. Nothing worth the effort is easy. If you're very experienced, it's easier.When I started knitting, I made myself a troyer with a zipper. It was way out of my league. I redid it three times, finally, success was on the horizon. I did it and I was proud of myself, only to be asked:" Where did you buy it?" What an embaressment.
It is unfortunate that this was your take away from the video, especially given the subject matter. Of course needlework is a skill that demands patience, creativity, and dedication.
@CactusLadyCreation The reason for my not so kind remarks are, that I, as a knitter and crocher, often get ask to just knit or chrochet an item or two. There's no real appriciation for the time and work, I put in it. I recently met a distant aquaintance,who looked at one of my patterns, a sweater. She asked, if I could knit it for her. When I replied, sure, how much are you willing to pay, she didn't even want to pay for the material, thinking the price was too high.She had no idea. I adviced her to go to a shop, buy the yarn and come back to negociate the labor costs. She didn't do that an felt offended. I could go on with other examples. When an item is self- made, it's seen as disposable. The biggest insult is, when people are asking me, where I bought my stuff, because it looks good.
With a proper houre rate, it is impossible to make not insane expensive, so maschine are needed. Knitting or croche is only a Hobby. Sorry, all fashion Brands produce there....they only make a insane amount of money with selling it for 500 percent more than produci g Cost...local Producer buy often the pieces and put their label in...naiv video.
One of my favourite things about crochet is it's forever. If I haven't worn something in over a year I can frog it and make something new with the yarn. I can thrift ugly sweaters and make something new with it. Its a fun way to turn fast fashion into slow fashion. All my relatives and friends know they aren't allowed to throw away knit items! GIMMIE. i even make them something new with it if they want or it goes into the stash. Even if its frayed, stained or has holes in. It can still be used to make something new! ❤ my latest project was turning a bunch of ancient knit cardigans into teddys! My friends grandfather sadly passed away and i made bears for my friends kids with grandads cardigans. When yarn gets too old and starts getting ratty you can use it to make rugs, shopping bags and blankies for animal shelters. I just put it all in a bag and marle it together for strength and thickness and when i have a big enough ball i make some stuff and give it friends family charities schools animal shelters etc. One of the charity shops near me I take shopping bags to regularly asked where i got the yarn. The lady was blown away that most of the yarn is on its 3rd or 4th life by the time its a bag. She then proceeded to give me a bin bag full of the ugliest knitwear i have ever seen. Its stuff that was going in the bin because they just cant sell it. I made it into another packet of bsgs for the store. They sell quite cheaply but they sell well and its made of yarn that would have gone in the bin. Now the lady there puts aside the ugly knitwear for me 😂 dont chuck it out! Make something fun and donate it instead ❤
Excellent video. Have subscribed. I am a keen supporter of campaign group Labour Behind the Label, which tries to get these corporations to pay their workers a fair wage. It's a small but powerful campaign group. Also I *love* your granny square dress. It's gorgeous!
👋 A FEW THINGS I WANTED TO REITERATE:
1. In this video, I focused on how crochet can only be produced by hand, not by machine. However, simply stating this fact doesn’t mean I’m against knitting machines that emulate crochet stitches-quite the opposite! I’m actually fascinated by them.
2. Stating that crochet is handmade doesn’t imply that machine-made processes don’t involve human labor or even potentially exploit workers, such as seamstresses or weavers, who operate these machines. My statement is solely to emphasize that crochet cannot be automated.
3. That said, I am not against automation! On the contrary, I’m a lover of technological innovation. I believe in eliminating human exploitation and educating myself (and others, where possible) about how to embrace technology to create a fairer, freer, and better world for everyone. 🌎
I hate how crochet growing in popularity has led to more fast fashion, not people thinking “oh maybe I should crochet too!” I feel like crocheting is all about sustainability and enjoying the process of making it. :(
I totally agree especially since it's such an accessible craft ✨
@CactusLadyCreation Indeed, but one thing to note, how many full time employees want to spend outside of their 40 minimum hour workweek, to then crochet or knit? The answer: only those who love to do it. Fast fashion actually a necessary evil for most hourly workers, pressed for heavily inflated money and quite diminished home time. That, and many people post technological age struggle with patience and entitlement issues, so there's that.
@@CactusLadyCreation I would call it a different things, more a mixture of cronyism, globalist, consumerism, high technocracy, etc. Also, other trends in the workplace following WWII, which inadvertently abolished the textile industry in the United States. (Which, to be fair, was kind of a dying art since the industrial revolution.)
@@brittanygreen fair enough!
@@CactusLadyCreation I mean, agreed, I'm trying to teach myself how to sew, and like to crochet, as well, so I agree that clothes making domestically needs to be salvaged. But, on a mass scale, that would take a societal and ideological changes, especially in regards to convenience, which, is a hard discussion nowadays. Thrifting does seem to knock the need to recycle, and the need to buy affordable, though, though quality varies.
While this is all true and crochet is especially taxing and time consuming. We shouldn't forget that every clothing piece that is sewn has been sewn by a human. Yes we have sewing machines but those still need to be manually operated, there is almost no clothing that is completely machine produced.
Absolutely - so true!
Thank you! I see "crochet can not be made by machine" so often but people always miss that its just a more VISIBLE example of exploitation in fast fashion not the only one. I have legit seen people say they were glad to see something wasn't crochet because that meant it wasn't made exploitedly. ...But it was still an under priced piece made in a sweatshop. Its like people think machine made means it was just auto printed out without any human labor
@@twistedmaidn Absolutely! All fast fashion is exploitive. I'm discussing specifically crochet in this video, as I am a crocheter and wanted to just stay on topic with that this video. Perhaps in a video soon I'll have to specifically explore machine made exploration in fashion. Please let me know if there is something specific you'd like to see.
I think crochet is faster than knit. I think it is easier. The aspect of the crochet method I don’t care for is the amount of yarn in a stitch. It feels thick and stiff.
@@theresarts482 That's totally fair!
The magic of creating your own unique garment is for me the best part of knitting or crocheting or sewing. 😊
I know right - It is magical 🪄✨
Maybe it's not magic maybe it's your intuition telling you you shouldn't be doing crochet if you are not apart of the closed practice
I'm so often ranting to my partner how incredible it is that we start from something so simple as a yarn and end up with a piece of clothing, object or art at the end! Never stops to amaze me 😊
@@ramongarcia3109 are you gatekeeping handicrafts?
I prefer sewing, but it’s definitely more costly than crochet. Sewing machines can be expensive. Crochet is also more personal since sewing machines make even stitches. I commend anyone who knits or crochets. I wouldn’t be able to do it myself
I don't mind machine made. BUT!! Crochet MAKES me slow down, feeds my creativity, gives me a sense of accomplishment when I have completed a difficult, long running pattern, gives me an appreciation for the art and artist, keeps my old hands oiled and most of all makes me remember my Granny who taught me the art of crochet. GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO! THANKS FOR SHARING!!
✨🤗Slowing down and the sense of accomplishment is a big one! Also that’s so nice your granny taught you 💕
Amen fr
I heard once that a machine cannot crochet because it would have to make movements in 72 directions, which is extremely difficult. Knitting and weaving involve a much smaller number of directions and it's a lot easier to create a machine for.
They would literally have to create a robot that can mimic human hand movements which can be done but it’s very complicated so no profit in it.
I started crocheting at the beginning of this year but there’s nothing like the feeling of accomplishment finishing a project and looking at the scarf/plushie/thing you made and knowing I made this!
I know right! The rush afterwards is everything 🤗✨
Thanks for bringing up ethically sourced crocheted items. Another good source for crocheted items is thrift stores. Many lovely granny square throws end up there.
You're right! It's amazing what you can find at thrift stores 🧶💖
True, I see old crochet blankets at the thrift all the time.
So true. And you can finish them or make them bigger using different yarns and colors to compliment the original. With crochet it's easy to just start adding on.
I clicked because of the gorgeous top you’re wearing 🤩 I love the color palette, and it suits you so well.
Edit: Oh, it was a dress! I love it even more. Beautiful work
Thank you so much! It was a lot of fun to make. 🖤✨
Yes! Reminds me of blue anemone flowers.
I am so inspired by it!! Is the yarn Red Heart Supersaver All in one Granny? Gorgeous! ❤
The thing I really love about the crochet online community is the CAL’s. There’s some thing about gradually learning a new technique, sharing your progress, the type and colors of yarn, and frustration with learning the new technique with others doing the same project. Everyone keeps encouraging you and sharing their own challenges with it. Then seeing the final results of people using different materials and different skill levels. Especially since nobody is discouraging. I have yet to find a discouraging remark, only tips on how to improve.
That's such a good point. There's nothing like having an encouraging community to keep encouraging creativity and while learning new skills 🤗✨
I would absolutely be interested in a video detailing ethical fashion brands!
I learned to crochet in the 70’s, my grandma taught me. Even though I never learned to knit, it does have an elegance that is not achieved with crochet. Crochet will always have that crafty handmade vibe. It has come a long way, there were few patterns and most weren’t something you wanted to make in the first place. Needlecrafts have become so incredibly expensive. I’m allergic to acrylic and for me to crochet an Afghan would cost hundreds of dollars. I occasionally make small things like purses and caps but I’ve pretty much put the hooks in storage.
I'm not opposed entirely to machine production, because some forms of automation take a human out of a dangerous or overly laborious situation. But I don't like products that aren't designed to last. I want my toilet paper disposable, not my clothes or my phone.
I have a few specialty retailers I shop from online that source their products (sewn garments) more ethically, but it does lead to an increase in the cost. Now, I've also never had to throw any of them out, because they've stayed in good condition. But the up front investment of $100 in a shirt isn't nothing.
I absolutely agree and very well put ✨
You might find the history of lace making interesting. Lace used to be a savings account, basically, when people had to appeal to a small, wealthy class, to get any of the big ticket things in life taken care of. Sound familiar? Lace was a way of having welfare for women, girls, nuns, and people with disabilities who could still sit down, and make lace inside. The big chapel veils? They were often made by nuns, or whole communities, and the women who wore them were flexing their worth, basically saying, 'Look, this is how much my community will invest in me. I'm high value. Take me seriously.' The nuns who made the lace, were known not to be able to afford their own pieces, though, and it was a way of punishing the celibate women for not getting married. This isn't some totally beneficial history, and that people can't organize to simply care for each other without spending their lives on an onerous task, and trading their suffering for what they need, is a tragedy. However, because the lace took hours and hours of meticulous work to make, people (women) could sit down with basic materials, and plug away, leave their projects in their hope chests for decades, and then put them on the market in a time of need, for a good price. There was even a town that suffered a serious crop failure, and they got an older woman out of retirement to teach them all lace making, and they made enough to eat and survive. When it wasn't so easy to make everything, the worth of what people made was enough to finance a social safety net. Isn't that incredible?
I don't love the idea of anyone having to sit down in a factory most days of their lives, and crank out clothes, and anything that dispenses with that, is in some way to be appreciated. Automation is one way. Decreasing expectation of production is another way. And finally, there is the possibility of more people reaching first to produce what they need, themselves, and everyone supporting a class of experts for the really choice pieces and occasions. Funny how when women stole the show, becoming a professional class of mantua makers, the men decided draping, colorful dress was beneath them, and then over a century later women were encouraged to produce clothes from home to kill the mantua maker businesses, and the millinery businesses. The makers and the professionals were pitted against each other, instead of being able to lift up each other's worth. If they had been working in lace, which takes so much time, for every single piece, I wonder if that would have been possible. Crochet poses similar questions, and it had a hey day in the 1970's as a Black liberation practice. It contests Capitalism, especially run away, out of control forms of it.
I don’t want my toilet paper disposable - I’m sick of that too.
With a bidet I just dry my clean butt off after with a cloth and throw that in the bathroom laundry bin.
@@sierrasukalski2133 That's such a great point and funny you mention lacemaking because I have actually been wanting to learn the lacemaking practice. It's such a gorgeous art form. I'd also love to learn more about everything you mentioned 🤗✨If you have any suggested books I would love to know! 📚
@@faiora 😂so true lol
My first foray into crochet, was when I bought 'Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker' book. It was a revelation to me, especially as someone who had kind of failed at knitting, just how beginner friendly crochet was. That same day, and in one evening, I made a long scallop edged scarf with a beautiful multi-coloured yarn. I love how forgiving crochet is.😄
I crochet my own blankets because of me a taller man I usually can't find a proper throw blanket without spending an arm and a leg so that's what I mostly make and enjoy doing
I have been crocheting for nearly 15 years now, just learned to knit a year ago. I find I like both. To me I think crochet is easier only because it just has a hook and if you drop a stitch or have to frog, it's easier than knitting. I don't have a preference, now I can look at both sides and make a project/pattern that catches my fancy. But I am glad I now know how to do both.
That's so true! Frogging is much easier with crochet than knitting. Mistakes with knitting can be stressful 😅 I hope to get more confident with knitting very soon 🤗✨
Ok
Plus there are times when you need to sort of sculpt a crochet item and these "mistakes" can look and fit better. Crochet is very sculptural and lends itself to making motifs which can be lovely in a garment.
Thank you! I love your thoughts and I'm grateful there are people thinking like you out there. Love from Greece ❤
I must admit I was alarmed by crochet garments hitting the fast fashion racks. Knowing the time and the toll on one's body (through repetitive actions) to make such garments.
I mentioned this to a freind, and they said why? They're getting paid fairly for their local economy. Umm, no, they're in sweatshops and probably fined if they're not fast enough. Crochet is very hard on the body. I love to do it, but I have rsi from a job in my 20s and have had to manage it for over 20yrs. I now work full time as a potter which allows me to be switching up my hand movements all the time, but because I make tools for fibre and textile garments, and sell a fibre and textile shows around around the UK, I am deeply immersed in the indie dyer and pattern designer community, and this sort of discussion pops up frequently. The ethical side of our particular community, the parts we play in it etc etc. Also plagiarism and outright copyright theft -looking right at you temu! Do better.
It just is so wrong. We are the literal definition of SLOW crafting or slow art. Why would our art be encompassed fast fashion?!? They need to put our art down and pay artists a fair wage for crocheted goods. We are artisans who have learned a skill, honed it and share it with the world
Fast fashion is 🥺 not something my values align with and it hurts that my fellow artisans are being forced to do jobs that take their skill and exploit it.
I know right it is the antithetical to the reason why many of us crochet in the first place isn't it 😓 then we get to fast fashion houses straight up stealing artists work. It was too much to put into this video - that's another whole can of worms 🪱
Great video and I’m obsessed with that colorblocking granny square join in your shirt! Very nice!
Very cool video! As I sit here crocheting holiday gifts for my friends, I am stitching love into every piece I make :) it’s a way to try and step back from consumerism and slow down to see all the effort it takes to make both clothing and accessories. Really puts a lot into perspective concerning artisans forced to work in sweatshops :(
Thanks so much - and I know right? Especially as crochet is such a slow craft. Also your friends are so lucky ✨
I’ve been knitting and crocheting for many, many, many years. I enjoy knitting much more however I feel crocheting is much, much faster. I can crochet something in 1/2 the time it takes to knit.
Totally get you there! It's crazy how much quicker crochet can be.
This is such a well produced video, can't believe it didn't received more attention. Maybe because the topic is more niche but I really enjoyed. I feelt very inspired to learn more about crochet! ♡
Thanks so much and I'm so happy to hear that 🤗💕
A deep dive on knitting machines would be awesome!
Ooh okay I’m glad to hear you’d be interested in this ✨🤗
Crochet was very easy to learn - I made a pouch and a scarf for myself and it felt awesome to wear/use them!
I bought a Sentro. I loved what I could make with it. Unfortunately it wasn't made to last. A waste of money.
Yea I've been thinking of getting one just to check it out as an intro to other knitting machines, but that's good to know!
2:19 re:rivalry, every time I hear this I go, no no no, not on my watch!!! Fiber arts in general is a dying art (in my opinion) so I celebrate all my fiber artists friends even if I just crochet and make friendship bracelets; we must squash the rivalry for the better of ALL fiber arts!
Yes it's a shame but I find my interest no less reduced. Sewing embroidery, darning, crochet...I am fascinated. I didn't want to make sourdough during the pandemic so I learned to darn my wool socks and that started a hunt for holey cashmere pieces to darn and fix. I'm finding so much cashmere to use I'm darning these pieces and then using them to make larger sewn together blankets. They look fun and they are so soft.
Seems like everything I want from the thrift store needs some fixing and I'm here for it. Just bought an emerald green wool serape with Mexican style embroidery all over it. That is going to be fun to fix and wear. I wish people would be more interested in learning these hand skills. They yield so much satisfaction. If people don't do handicrafts what do they find satisfaction in making?
Fast fashion is always cheap (inexpensive) and cheap (low or lower quality). Yet, it is extremely expensive (at great cost to the people working in the sweat shops). High fashion is typically much greater in quality, but sadly, still often made in sweat shops. In the world today, unfortunately, it is very difficult to get away from sweat shops, either because the cost is beyond reach of the masses, and/or access to non-sweat shop products. Making our clothes and other home textiles does remove one stage of the sweat shop, and that is a good thing, but there are other stages of the process to consider. Were the fabric and yarn made in sweat shops? Were the cotton and linen farmed ethically? Where the sheep farmed ethically and humanely? Were the dyes used to color the fabric and yarn made in sweat shops under humane conditions? It can be very disheartening, but every step we take is meaningful and important. When i see a super cute a blouse, for example, at a “great” price, all i can think is “It would hardly cost me anything to buy it, but at great cost the people who made it. No thank you.” Making our own and/or buying from makers/artists is worth every penny you pay.
Such a great point and not enough conversations happens for high fashion being made in sweat shops as well! I'll have to dive more into that topic soon. Also materials open up a whole new can of worms 😅... It's for this reason that growing, spinning, and dyeing my own yarn and textiles is an ultimate dream. 🤗✨ Hopefully one day! 🤞
THIS
thank you for this video ! this is the horrible truth of fast fashion...By the way, Ilove so much your dress! Thinking of making one for myself!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much! It was so fun to make 🤗💕
I want to try crochet as that seems like the way to do frills while having it be texturally consistent with Woven Shrugs.
Although what Im fuzzy about: Im not sure how different colored yarn blends. The loom I use is really meant for making tapestries to mount paintings though.
There is no crochet machine, BUT I saw on Facebook someone is doing machine embroidery which resembles crochet. It's horrid. I'm for the future and love technology, bit there are thing which cannot be reproduced, or maybe should not be.
Thanks for sharing this important info! I’d love to see a video on ethical fast fashion companies. It is frustrating how challenging it can be to understand the origins of the things we consume.
Very informative ..I love crochet I love the feeling it gives to know I created something from just a ball of yarn.i think it's magical.thank you for sharing.i used to knit a lot too ..but I think I love crochet more.💝💝💝
I'm glad you found it informative and it is so special isn't it? 🤗✨
Yes please, I'd love to learn more about fast fashion and how to fight it.
I love the lampshade and that granny square color scheme is gorgeous! I would never have thought to combine these colors together 😯😍
Thank you so much 🤗✨
This video is totally on point. Crochet is definitely being used in some countries to exploit workers who deserve better . Also , The fake crochet is hurting those who are true to the craft. The pricing of these online retailers is an insult to the Art.
Thanks and Yes so true!
Love your sweater. I learned to make granny squares from my Grandmother as a child. I remember a favorite crochet vest and crochet poncho made for me by my Nana in the 60's.
Thanks so much and that's so sweet. There's nothing like grandma's pieces. 🤗
Love your sweater. I’m rather interested in the history of and other tidbits if you ‘d like to make them. Thanks
I think I want as sustainable a wardrobe as possible, so I buy pieces I love not necessarily fashion pieces but as I want to look like me and no one else I think that is it's own cool.
Once I made my first wearable, just a few weeks ago and it came out beautiful, I was hooked, I want as many homemade pieces as possible. Slower but so much better.
I think rebelling against capitalism is always good and can have an impact on lives and the planet.
I hear you 💕 making your own clothes is amazing right?! 🌎 🙏🏾✨
im seeing so many crochet items on amazon and at the mall and it makes me so sad😢
I was taught to crochet by my Great Grandmother in the 70's. She exclusively made Tams and that's all I learned to make. As a kid I loved my granny square blankets to make forts because you could see out and the colors were pretty. By the time Stitch and Bitch knitting groups became popular I had taught myself to knit but there was something about crochet that kept drawing me back to projects like granny square blankets.
I love the portability of crochet. I can take 3 small balls of yarn and one hook and make several granny squares so my granny square blankets go quite quickly. I love the almost stained glass effect. I often buy partially finished or small crochet blankets at the thrift store and finish or make them bigger with my own stitch patterns and complimentary colors. I probably wouldn't do that with a knitted blanket.
I never understood why crochet was not popular but then attended a costume museum show of Vivienne Westwood and was surprised to see a lot of crochet pieces. Crochet pretty much had a surge in popularity in the 1970's while knitting seems to have become more popular in the 90's.
I would love to see a video about accessible ethical clothing brands.
Ooh okay thanks for letting me know ✨🤗
You're crocheted top is gorgeous! This is such an interesting video. Thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it 💕
My sister🙄. I told her that only humans crochet, no machine, no computer can do this so she googled "crochet machine" and pulled up hundreds of knitting machines advertised as crochet machines. 😖
I had to move from knitting to crochet due to wrist problems. I've grown to love it. I've been really concerned about the exploitation of crocheters. I feel it's best to not support it. I love the uniqueness of crochet. I make scarves to give away. People love them.
Love your videos! Would watch anything you make on knitting machines or ethical and accessible fabrics and clothing!
Also I have been avoiding yarns containing Rayon because of the health effects it has on the workers and I heard that there may be concerns about the bamboo viscose too.
Thanks so much! I'd love to dive more into knitting machines and ethical fabrics. I'll have to research more about rayon and bamboo viscose - that's super interesting. ✨
@@LennyLefebvre-qb6qx Well said! I was recently reading a consumer article that said they tested a bunch of different "bamboo sheets" and found that none of them contained bamboo fiber. 😮
I'm thankful for videos like this because I feel like the more informed we become as consumers, the more empowered we are to make decisions that help other people and the environment.
I love weird and quirky clothes.. Like my favourite winter hat is still a reindeer shaped one, what I bought in tesco's child clothing aisle some 10 years ago. But you can't get these cute weird clothes in adult sizes... So I picked up crocheting, because if I can't buy an animal shaped scarf, then I'll make it myself.
And the thing I love about it the most, is how much joy it can cause to random people. My first project was an opossum shaped scarf and when I wear it cashiers in the stores often comment on it how cute it is and makes them smile. Or there was this time, when an elderly lady came up to me in the metro and asked where did I get it from, because she would like to buy one for her grandkid. When I told her that I did it, she took a closer look and realized it's crocheted and gave me some tips (because that scarf is wonky as heck if you take a closer look, but hey it was my first finisehd project).
Idk it feels nice, when something I made can spark some joy in some random bypasser.
SO true! This is why I Iove crocheting my own pieces as well. We wear clothes everyday so... why not have fun with them right?
Impressed the job you've done for that video! Good work. You deserve more views.
Thank you so much 🤗✨ So glad you enjoyed!
Hi there
Absolutely love your crochet jumper the colours are beautiful!
I both knit and crochet, and they are both excellent for different purposes.
I totally agree 🤗✨
I do crochet and knitting, I like both but for different purposes. I think knit clothes more comfortable then crochet, but crochet is better when you need support. So I like crochet in hats, purses, cropped, beach clothes and decorative things, like dolls and table towels. And I like knitting in sweaters, skirts, pants, blankets, and other comfy clothing and accessories, like scarfs or hoodies, socks and gloves.
You have a good vocal rhythm. So I would love to hear a history of the machines from ya.
Thanks so much 🤗🎶 lovely!
As much as I hate the fake-crochet, knitting replicas, because they're scummy and deceiving, I'd rather purchase that than get real crochet items from a fast-fashion company that was probably entirely made by a person getting paid nowhere near what they were supposed to. Shame on those companies. I'd rather make it.
Definitely interested in a video about ethical clothing brands. Thanks.
Okay Lovely, I'll look into that - I'm always on the hunt for ethical brands ✨
I would love to know more about fast fashion!
I crochet because I don't have the patience to knit. I can basically watch TV, for example, whilst making an Afghan square.
I love your outfit, too!
Fair enough, I totally relate! And thanks so much ✨🤗
I dont know how on topic i am, but my problem with crochet and knitting it how i cant see a ball of yern and think of it as something i could wear. Maybe i am so used to our modern world where we rarely make our own cloths anymore, maybe its my sensory issues that make it really hard for me to wear things that have a lot of texture to them like crocheted/knitted clothes. My only solution to my clothing consuption is to either use hand-me-downs from fanily or buy fast fashion only once in a blue moons (which also works out with my sensory issues because i hate trying on new things), but in a round-about way i still end up supporting those terible businesses
I love the sweater you’re wearing
Thanks so much 🌹🤗
I would love to see you make a video about Nalbinding which predates both knitting and crocheting by about a millenia.
Your sweater is beautiful! Those colors look great you
I am enjoying the video so far, I would definitely want to watch a video about more affordable ethical clothing. I also love the dress so beautiful, what did you decide what colors to use?
Thanks so much - okay lovely thanks for letting me know 🤗✨ Also I made it using the all in one granny square yarn by red heart, they have some pretty cool colorways 🩷
I’d love to see a video of ethical crochet brands!
Ooh okay lovely- thanks for letting me know you'd be interested in this!
I personaly don't get the dispute. I do both and I like both. Both have ther place in garment making. Rght now I am knitting a nice and warm sewter and crotchet a pair of slipers.
I totally agree - both are fun and fascinating! 🤗✨
I personal love crocheting, wearing something I make it feels great.
Me too 🤗✨
I think the rivalry is silly, it’s all personal taste. I just love calling yall hookers though 🤣 I also say that I’m addicted to the needle so it goes both ways 😊
haha 😂 you're hilarious and I absolutely agree
Loving the granny square dress and the spider web pullover!!
Thanks so much! 🖤🕸️
First time viewer and new subscriber. This was a very good video.
Thanks and thank u for subbing ✨🤗
Such an intereasting video!
Thanks ✨🤗
Your top is so gorgeous!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you like it 💖
Your sweater is awesome ❤
I love that beautiful piece you are wearing.
I tried prompting AI making me butterfly top and the results are very promising. I think to attempt making them, humanly possible of course 😂
Did you make that nice jumper you're wearing? I might make one too since I've been making granny square blankets for ages :)
Yes I did 🤗 ooh I hope you do! I have a video tutorial on how to make it on this channel here if you wanna check it out 💕 th-cam.com/video/v0866hc3vcs/w-d-xo.html
@@CactusLadyCreation I'll check it out, thanks ❤
Yes! Please share the ethical brands!
Love the dress you're wearing! 😍🧶
Thanks so much 💕🤗
LOVE your top!
Thanks so much! 💕
A granny square _sweater_ ? I don't know if that's awesome or amazing... but it's certainly bold!
Good! Life’s too short to be boring ✨🤗
@@CactusLadyCreation I'm unable to edit my comment on mobile, but it's a dress!! And the skeleton corset and spiderweb wrap? Subbed. Double subbed.
How do I go back and sub 2 years ago?
In all seriousness, I've been looking for something outside of the standard "scarf, hat, sweater, blanket" quadfecta in most crochet content.
Good afternoon 🌄 blessings 🙏🏾👋🏾
Thank you and blessings to you 🙏🏾✨
Here's hope: how do you think nature does some things? I'm a physicist who used weaving, knitting & crocheting techniques to figure out how nature behaves, how everything is created. DNA? The Vordian Knot? Two strand intarsia crocheting reasons it and another solution then is: seee knot theory, intarsia crocheting, how to turn a star into a square - they need computers to do the geometry for them so it's not the work of any human man no matter what they claim as there's a difference between work vs a job - and so also see the slip knot. Who says the only solution to the Gordian Knot Problem is to cut it? That's on TH-cam already, how to turn a star into a granny square as are demonstrations of "working the back".
A ton of stuff that male physicists flatlout deny or can but will not discover? The 'secret' is in the ancient arts when Weaving is one of them. If you look? In some ancient cultures a boy was given a sword and a girl a spindle at borth. Not as she's inferior! That exactly shaped spindle? Is the key to their calendar system of measures, weights & coins. It represents the differential. See Sumer, it's base 60 system and it's ellipse like spindle, it turns gears. Their calendar looks like gears and sets of them. That's why and how you can relate calendars & clocks to this.
Native wampum belts? Not money! Sacred objects. Weaving! The value? You know what pattern to weave! If you don't know what pattern to weave? No value. They resemble the print out of a DNA test. Everything is symbolic. Symbols? Infinite! So we use different word labels in different fields - jargon meant to keep ppl out? Keep ppl uninformed? - and we don't recognize it's the same thing over again at a point but it's part of a repeating pattern in the same field or it's the same concept in a different field. We're on repeat in every field and men still refuse to consider not believe all things labeled "woman" or they cannot justify their SENSE of superiority so their deplorable behavior. The answers rest in what men ignore and deny: women and the supposed womanly arts, 😁🗽
interesting i had no idea.
I know, right? 😯
I'm on the fence. Yes, fast fashion is overall bad, it polutes the Earth and making people believe that they need a brand new wardrobe each reason. BUT on the other hand it gives work to many people. My mum used to work gor a lady who was selling garmets with our traditional embroidery. My mum spent a whole week doing one and got £6 for that. They wouldn't give her more and my mum had no other option to work from home. We were lucky, it wasn't lunch money, more like her cigarette money. Yes it would have been nice if she get more but then the end garment would have been so pricey that noone would buy it. If those cheap fast fashion clothes companie swould pay mkre for the workers, they wouldn't sell it the same price and people wouldn't buy so those poor workers would be jobless or would find an even more horrible job. There was a time when I tried to avoid these clothes. But then my friend, who is from Bangladesh, said that buying made in Bangladesh clothes are good for his countries economy and he is always prefer clothes made in his country.
Meanwhile human nature is that we always want more. We can't expect that some clothes are out of our frice range so we're buying fakes or poorly made ones. People rather have 10 bad quality clothes than 1 good one which cost x10 more than the bad one.
that's very interesting... thanks for sharing your perspective.
Knitting is literally different from crochet
Exactly!
Maybe someone has corrected you but you have your centuries wrong. Fast fashion rose writh the victorians in the mid to late 19th century. And everything you can say about worker treatment overseas you could have said about workers in the U.S. a hundred years ago. The gilded age was only golden for the same 1%.
I understand your assertion, while the Victorian era did see a rise in mass-produced clothing, specifically the modern fast-fashion model emerged in the 1970s and the phrase was coined in the 1990s. Alas, there is nothing new under the sun ☀
You shouldn't diminish the skill set it takes to be a tailor, a knitter and a crocher
You state, that by learning just a few stitches, you can make a piece of art.
That's simply not true, for a variety of reasons.
First of all, it takes patience to work for long hours, unpaid, risking, that the outcome is not what you envisioned.
Second, you can't just do nedelwork. You have to learn it, like playing an instrument.
Third, nedelwork is expensive. Even the cheapest wool costs more than fast- fashion.
Third. People underestimate the time and the level of creativity it takes to produce something beautiful.
A personal remarc:
I don't like the idea, that something is easy. Nothing worth the effort is easy. If you're very experienced, it's easier.When I started knitting, I made myself a troyer with a zipper.
It was way out of my league.
I redid it three times, finally, success was on the horizon.
I did it and I was proud of myself, only to be asked:" Where did you buy it?"
What an embaressment.
It is unfortunate that this was your take away from the video, especially given the subject matter. Of course needlework is a skill that demands patience, creativity, and dedication.
@CactusLadyCreation
The reason for my not so kind remarks are, that I, as a knitter and crocher, often get ask to just knit or chrochet an item or two. There's no real appriciation for the time and work, I put in it.
I recently met a distant aquaintance,who looked at one of my patterns, a sweater. She asked, if I could knit it for her. When I replied, sure, how much are you willing to pay, she didn't even want to pay for the material, thinking the price was too high.She had no idea. I adviced her to go to a shop, buy the yarn and come back to negociate the labor costs. She didn't do that an felt offended.
I could go on with other examples. When an item is self- made, it's seen as disposable.
The biggest insult is, when people are asking me, where I bought my stuff, because it looks good.
I love your top
Thanks so much 🤗💕
I see you feel for the conspiracy: Bielefeld doesn’t exist, so obvs there’s also no university of Bielefeld ;-) (this is a joke - iykyk)
With a proper houre rate, it is impossible to make not insane expensive, so maschine are needed. Knitting or croche is only a Hobby. Sorry, all fashion Brands produce there....they only make a insane amount of money with selling it for 500 percent more than produci g Cost...local Producer buy often the pieces and put their label in...naiv video.
One of my favourite things about crochet is it's forever. If I haven't worn something in over a year I can frog it and make something new with the yarn. I can thrift ugly sweaters and make something new with it. Its a fun way to turn fast fashion into slow fashion. All my relatives and friends know they aren't allowed to throw away knit items! GIMMIE. i even make them something new with it if they want or it goes into the stash. Even if its frayed, stained or has holes in. It can still be used to make something new! ❤ my latest project was turning a bunch of ancient knit cardigans into teddys! My friends grandfather sadly passed away and i made bears for my friends kids with grandads cardigans. When yarn gets too old and starts getting ratty you can use it to make rugs, shopping bags and blankies for animal shelters. I just put it all in a bag and marle it together for strength and thickness and when i have a big enough ball i make some stuff and give it friends family charities schools animal shelters etc. One of the charity shops near me I take shopping bags to regularly asked where i got the yarn. The lady was blown away that most of the yarn is on its 3rd or 4th life by the time its a bag. She then proceeded to give me a bin bag full of the ugliest knitwear i have ever seen. Its stuff that was going in the bin because they just cant sell it. I made it into another packet of bsgs for the store. They sell quite cheaply but they sell well and its made of yarn that would have gone in the bin. Now the lady there puts aside the ugly knitwear for me 😂 dont chuck it out! Make something fun and donate it instead ❤
Excellent video. Have subscribed. I am a keen supporter of campaign group Labour Behind the Label, which tries to get these corporations to pay their workers a fair wage. It's a small but powerful campaign group. Also I *love* your granny square dress. It's gorgeous!
Oh wow that's so cool and thanks so much! 🤗✨
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Aren't y'all jews and cross worshippers blowin up babies in gaza to please your false demonic biblical deity? You really wanna be proud?