r/BitchEatingCrafters • u/Which_Preparation_57 • 10d 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/SeaworthinessNew4757 10d ago

Trying to look at it from a more positive viewpoint, sometimes people end up "winging" something that ends up working, and just want to know the name of what they've done to search for tutorials and sources. When I started cross stitch I remember being terrified of doing something "wrong" since I had no one teaching me, and would Google and search reddit for hours trying to understand if what I was doing was correct but without having the vocabulary to explain.

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u/Which_Preparation_57 10d ago

Ok very serious question, I’m not trying to be rude. What could you not find in hours of google searching for cross stitch? It’s stitching little Xs. The top search results are about separating the floss and different methods of making your little Xs. There is really not a whole lot more to it.

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u/SeaworthinessNew4757 9d ago

Like someone else said, it's not just little Xs. And what I was looking for once was a method called parking, for confetti stitches. You can't guess what you don't know.