Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive

• Rinn@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Nah, honestly anything better than the bottom-of-the-barrel acrylics is going to add up quickly when you buy enough of it to make something like a sweater. If you want to use natural fibers (wool, cotton, I’ll take bamboo too) that’s a large jump in price, even if you’re not getting anything too fancy. And I feel like if I’m going to spend months hand-knitting a sweater, I don’t want to end up with something that’s all plastic and will degrade in a year.

  I do also have some fancy hand-dyed yarns that were properly expensive and these ones are indeed 100% on me :P But they’re not really what I’m talking about here.

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  • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, most people just have no clue how much yarn is needed or how much time it takes to make even a fairly simple item

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I tried getting into knitting once, and really appreciated that the entry bar is so cheap. I never made the jump for more expensive yarn, life got in the way and stopped.

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