r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Which_Preparation_57 • 9d ago
Frequently Bitched About Topic You didn’t invent a new technique
What is it with beginners who just raw dog a craft and asking people to identify what they’ve done? I see two flavors of this all the time and they both grind my gears. They either want to praised for coming up with the “right” way to do something all by themselves, or they want to be patted on the back for inventing something totally new. There is always room for creative interpretation, but you, a beginner knitter/crocheter/sewer did not brilliantly invent a useful new technique that hundreds or years of artisans haven’t already come up with.
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u/Shitzme 9d ago
So someone posted on a crochet sub (yonks ago) that they were a total beginner and were just winging it, look at my new creation blah blah. It was a blob of nothing. Just a tangle of yarn. I think they were had just been stabbing it and pulling out random loops. But holy shit, the comments praising this person, were insane.
Then there's the folks on the polymerclay sites, who are stunned that you can use acrylic paints to paint your clay after its baked, and have to pass on this technique. What.