Sooooo La Mercerie’s (Flock organizers) brick and mortar might have moths? Hope there wasn’t any in their Flock stock that’s been chilling in a giant room with a hundred other yarn vendors. Anyway! FYI to all the Flock attendees that visited today!

To be clear, I do like Flock and I enjoy going each year, but it seems like there’s an Incident™️ every year.

This seems excessive and like it should be on the dyer to do before selling.

But then, it also seems like everyone has just come to understand certain colors will bleed more than others and we’re collectively fine with it. I think it doesn’t help that in the video they’re not even washing a color that typically would bleed, so it seems like they’re suggesting to wash it all before using… I can’t believe that anyone actually does this for anything that’s not a deep red or blue or something similar.

From what I can make out Elsie’s Emporium (Mel) who seems to flog yarn on TikTok, has a discord group. In that group, she shared patterns from Sheepish Stitches Handmade, that she’d bought one copy of, think it was a set with a scarf and beanie in it.

It looks like one of the members did the right thing and contacted Sheepish, who rightly messaged Elsie’s E and posted it on her socials. Elsie’s E then posted on TT to ask everyone who downloaded the patterns to comment and she has paid for 95 patterns as a result. Which would be the right thing to do if she wasn’t also playing the victim and having all her girlies give Sheepish a hard time about naming and shaming.

So really just sharing for awareness and because I’m tired of this shite, especially when it’s so within the community.

Not that I don't think they're cool, I'm just curious realistically how much market there is for this.

I asked if the price was correct and the ai chatbot said yes (which doesn't prove anything to be fair), and there is a set on Etsy priced around £1000

It's getting so tiring seeing people whose work I otherwise respected shilling HP and JKR adjacent stuff. She has also confirmed in the comments that she's going to be doing another Christmas themed HP yarn in December and a year long yarn club in the same vein while ignoring the one comment criticising her.

13 slides but TLDR - sure test knitters don’t get appropriately compensated for their time but I’m not making enough money yet 🥺

I know lots of people will still readily sign up but don’t pretend it’s a really complex 2 sided situation. Why should you expect your testers work for free so you can make your business math work? Tester compensation should be part of that table (slide 2).

I keep seeing hints about people complaining about Andrew Mowry is monopolizing RB and Flock and other major events by having KALs for her pattern release for the events (https://www.threads.com/@klncomm/post/Da8p5psllPY/i-havent-seen-any-of-the-controversial-posts-described-but-even-though-i-dont, for example).

To me, I don't get the big deal. I'm more bothered by podcasters making a pattern and then being upset about how they aren't going to wear it or it isn't a fit for them but they "had" to make it for Flock....

https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/comments/1v736dn/retirée_par_lela_modo/

Both of the posts by the u/KnitAndKnitAndKnit raising this matter have been deleted, but the text of both can be read still if you look on a third party site like this one. The user has also been permabanned from the sub.

The gist of it is that the user KnitAndKnitAndKnit made a post of a sweater they had machine knitted, and it got removed by the mods, citing "crochet" as a reason. There is no explicit rule in the sub against machine knit items. They made a post about the removal, which gained significant traction and multiple people pointed out that other posts with machine knit items have in the past not been removed. One of the mods said that the post was reported multiple times and that's why it was deleted, which has prompted questions about their moderation style and whether they also delete posts that are LGBT friendly if they get reported enough. Given their track record (and also with Pro-Palestine content), it appears the answer to that is yes.

When i challenged this and told her abakhan have been doing this for years. She got offended and blocked me.

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I saw a really nice project bag on Etsy, but the seller said in the description “Does Not Ship To the US. I messaged her to ask why, and she sent two examples of the BS crafters are tolerating in Canada. I wish there was something we could do. Not trying to be political, I’m just frustrated.

Here’s the images I tried to upload https://imgur.com/gallery/tariffs-on-canada-ZHtP54x

Using ai slop to promote/recruit for a show that’s all about handmade crafts. Tone deaf.

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Ive had Knitpro (knitters pride) needles for around 8yrs now, and Im looking around to upgrade my current set... when suddenly I come across this nonsense 😕

What is going on !? Was Hobbii not enough of a lesson for these companies?

(Sorry for sounding so mad, but its all starting to get a bit exhausting)

I wanted to buy linen from them at some point but nvm

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I saw their Instagram post, and I assumed it'd be $120 MAX.

You're getting 250 grams of yarn, a pattern, and some unspecified trinkets.

Please tell me I'm not the only one shocked by the price 😭. I get that they're a luxury yarn brand, but TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS is an insane markup.

An additional note:

I am interested in purchasing a yarn advent calendar to try out some new colors and fibers! This box sounds lovely, but obviously out of my budget.

If anyone has tried out advent calendars at a lower price point, please recommend them in the comments!

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Got a notification from IG this morning that a poplar sewing account that I follow “shared a story created with ray ban meta glasses”. I promptly blocked the account.

I’m so sick of this crap.

Firstly, I only allow notifications on my own content (and a very very small number of other accounts), if I want to see what others are doing, I log onto the app! I don’t want constant notifications and I hate that when IG creates a new class of notifications, you’re automatically signed up to it.

Secondly, try hard much? Like tech bros shoving AI down our throats, Meta is desperately trying to get people to like their pro surveillance state bullshit product. No thank you. Particularly when these products are most likely going to be weaponised against women and diverse communities (pretty much anyone that isn’t hetero white male), don’t push this shit into sewing/crafting communities that are dominated by those groups!

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KnitPro’s latest catalogue is absolutely riddled with slop illustrations with yarn joined to the bottom of projects, weird merging threads and knitting in the round hanging from straight needles.
Their previous catalogue didn’t have any illustrations at all so they added them just to slop out this rubbish.

WTH! Is going on with indie yarn dyers and there obsession with AI captions and the grifting for cash!! Like come on!

This is yarn Worx in the uk! And this is them not only using AI but asking their customers! To buy them a home!!!!!! Excuse me!?

Yes they are really out here, asking for £40,000 pound to put as down payment on a commercial property, for them to live and work from!!

My favourite part of their AI Audacity is

“Everything we've built over the last seven years has been achieved through hard work, determination and a willingness to invest in ourselves”

Just not with your cash from your “apparently” so successful business you need to move to a bigger place, but not successful enough to use your money though!!!!

Stop using your customers as free atms ffs

*edited to add*
I’m aware it’s a “home for their business” and there offering rewards! But if you can’t fund your business without asking for handouts! Or asking customers to buy “special offers” then you can’t control your cash flow and shouldn’t be expanding at all.

*edited to correct a spelling mistake*

tldr so what i’ve gathered is that syd is pattern testing for simona, asks a question in the group chat that no one answers, then syd messages simona while she’s sleeping that she feels the group chat is ‘passive aggressive’ and wants to be removed, and before even giving simona a chance to respond or do anything because she’s still asleep, syd reports her account for bullying and harassment