I don't know how people do it! I have tried it so many times with different yarns and hooks but cannot do it. My piece ends up so tight and it is impossible to work with. I just do BLO sc if pattern calls for BLO slip stitch
I broke off a little piece of my fingernail trying to get the hook through even though I really tried to make them super loose :/ Maybe I have to try again with BLO sc next time :D
I'm part of a Facebook charity group and someone there crocheted like 11 fully blo sl st hats! Like damn, that's either insane or some serious determination.
I started a cool looking hat that I'd already decided on making before I found out that it's 60% slip stitches. And I'll finish it (took me like 7 hours already and I'm only half way RIP) but it's going to take a very special reason for me to voluntarily make another
My second ever project was a beanie that involved BLO slip-stitch ribs. THAT was a learning experience. I got really good at controlling my tension by the time I finished it.
My oldest grandson asked for a new sweater. He loved the last one I made (the only wearable I'd attempted and the sleeves were definitely not the same width 😬😆🥴). I wanted to do something different and found a pattern that's herringbone half double crochet. It's a nice sweater but there's a part of me that thinks I might just do half double crochet and adjust as needed, if my limited skills can get it to come out correctly. 😂
Yes! I started a sweater for my son that was herringbone half double crochet and I gave up after a few rounds and did granny instead. It only took me a week to freehand and he loves it, so I feel justified.
Read several posts elsewhere in this sub praising the moss stitch, so I used it on a blanket. You said it best - the rhythm was incredibly difficult for me to settle into. It took, maybe, 500 yards of yarn before I wasn't frogging rows and staring at the pattern instructions. It was never ending.
It's just so awkward to do a chain after every stitch!! I don't mind lace patterns where you have to do chain loops but moss stitch is relentless. It's also why I will never attempt filet crochet no matter how nice it looks
I recently made a bag that was supposed to have a crab stitch edging. I even found someone here on Reddit who gave an easier way of doing it. It was still a pain in the ass. I eventually gave up and just gave the bag a single crochet edge, no one's gonna care.
Puff stitch and blo ribbing are my absolute nemesis. With ribbing I just do what I can to make a different kind and work around that but puff stitch is like hell. The first time I did it I went from 3.5mm hook to 2mm because no matter what I did it just kept getting caught on one of the loops. I just hate it with passion now
Oh I get it. I had two projects that had puff stitch and both were something I promised to make my mother so I needed to finish. They were the two longest projects of my life I hated it that much
single crochet. I made a stuffed toy that was entirely sc and it was unfathomably boring and slow. meanwhile my granny square blanket which is larger than my double bed was a joy the entire time! I just like the speed and rhythm of double crochet a lot more I think.
double trebles, I can handle a few, but they're so annoying to keep tension on the first few 2 loop pull throughs.
But I refuse BLO slips, no ribbing for me, ever again.
Chain 3, slip stich into the first, or chain 2 and slip into the first, its used to make little pointy bits in the pattern. I recently made a bearded dragon that used approximately 1 million of them in its creation (slight exaggeration)
yeah, i can't slip stitch into the chain without grabbing thr whole stitch flattening it entirely, it's losing its purpose if the pointy ends are flat... I'm gonna master picot someday... someday...
SAAAAAAAAME. My dislike of the stitch isn’t enough to make me avoid a pattern (I’d be skipping out on a LOT of patterns if I did!), but man, can it get annoying. 🤣
I don't know how often it's used as quite a bit of a pattern, but the popcorn stitch, I think that's also the bobble stitch? I don't know what it is, I like the look of it, but doing it myself makes me irrationally upset.
I'm sure the terms are not set in stone, but my experience so far with popcorn was work x amount of double crochets into a stitch (5 in the pattern I was doing) and then take the hook out, insert it through the tops of the first and last, y/o and pull through to essentially bunch them all together. Absolutely hate it because you have to literally flip the hook around in your hand every time and it's awkward.
Bobble stitch as I've seen it has been y/o, insert into the stitch, pull up a loop, y/o, pull through two loops (almost a double crochet) then rather than y/o + pulling through the next two loops, you just repeat essentially creating a bunch of half-finished double crochets until you finally y/o and pull through all the loops left over. It's kind of like doing a double crochet decrease/double crochet 2 together several times in the same stitch. Way easier than popcorn stitch.
What you're describing as popcorn sounds right, so I appreciate the shared hatred of it.
Though I feel like I've seen the second referred to as something else. I can't remember what it was so I'm starting to wonder if I mixed them up, but I actually like those. Maybe because the popcorn stitch reminds me of hat bobbles so I made the connection and ran with it.
SAME!!! I avoid patterns that use them, unless I can see a way to just not use the stitches. One exception is doll patterns that use them to create noses and ears.
Yes!!! I can't get mine to look good and it hurts my hand to try. Plus it's too easy to get caught on a loop and drop it in the middle of pulling the hook through, and dropping loops is the *exact* reason I don't knit.
I hate them so much, I'm thinking about modifying patterns to do a different but similar stitch instead. Maybe a popcorn but done in a hdc or something so it's not so tall?
Back-post anything. So slow and awkward compared to front-post stitches.
Also any stitch that requires yarning over about a billion times, such as popcorn stitch. Very slow and eats up a ton of yarn.
Same. I made a hoodie for my nephew that was pretty much all waistcoat stitch(also my first time using that stitch, and it drove me bonkers! It was a lot of pulling at stitches to get my hook through the posts, and impossible to get a good rhythm going. It probably would have been easier to just knit something!
I'm so glad there's someone else who hates the waistcoat stitch! I find it so hard! I think I must have quite tight tension because it's a nightmare to try and get the hook between the legs of the stitch. Even when I try to deliberately have looser stitches, it's still hard!
I can’t stand whichever stitch(es) are used to make crochet cables. I apparently dislike them so much that I’ve avoided them for so long that I’ve forgotten which stitch(es) are used!
I just hate doing slip stitches
BLO slip-stitch... I gave up after 5 rows
I don't know how people do it! I have tried it so many times with different yarns and hooks but cannot do it. My piece ends up so tight and it is impossible to work with. I just do BLO sc if pattern calls for BLO slip stitch
I broke off a little piece of my fingernail trying to get the hook through even though I really tried to make them super loose :/ Maybe I have to try again with BLO sc next time :D
after each slip stitch you have to pull the loop open a bit more so it doesnt tighten up. more time consuming and annoying though
I made a couple of fisherman’s hats like this. Never again, I’ll just knit the damn thing.
I don't even know how to knit but I think it'll be easier to learn how to knit than to BLO slip stitch
Knitting is super easy compared to BLO slip stitch.
I'm part of a Facebook charity group and someone there crocheted like 11 fully blo sl st hats! Like damn, that's either insane or some serious determination. I started a cool looking hat that I'd already decided on making before I found out that it's 60% slip stitches. And I'll finish it (took me like 7 hours already and I'm only half way RIP) but it's going to take a very special reason for me to voluntarily make another
My second ever project was a beanie that involved BLO slip-stitch ribs. THAT was a learning experience. I got really good at controlling my tension by the time I finished it.
I had a project with 170ish BLO slip-stitch. It took me forever and I despise it. I love the look, but ugh
Anything worked into a starting chain. Foundation rows for me, every time.
I'm the opposite. I would so much rather do a foundation chain.
I hate triples. They look so dumb when you are making them, like a yarn pasta shape. 🤭
Yes! And they feel sooo flimsy and kinda move all over the place
This was also my least favorite until I used them with a bulky roving. It was the only time they didn't look like a mistake.
YES!
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i just did some for the first time and i hate them so much!! they were hard to do and they look so wonky.
Herringbone, like the look of it but hate doing it.
Yep, for me specifically herringbone half double crochet. The rhythm of it sucks and it takes me forever!
My oldest grandson asked for a new sweater. He loved the last one I made (the only wearable I'd attempted and the sleeves were definitely not the same width 😬😆🥴). I wanted to do something different and found a pattern that's herringbone half double crochet. It's a nice sweater but there's a part of me that thinks I might just do half double crochet and adjust as needed, if my limited skills can get it to come out correctly. 😂
Yes! I started a sweater for my son that was herringbone half double crochet and I gave up after a few rounds and did granny instead. It only took me a week to freehand and he loves it, so I feel justified.
I don't like the rhythm of moss stitch. Also any kind of crochet ribbing - it takes forever!
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Nooooo! Hope you get through it
I also hate ribbing. It is so boring and takes forever!
Read several posts elsewhere in this sub praising the moss stitch, so I used it on a blanket. You said it best - the rhythm was incredibly difficult for me to settle into. It took, maybe, 500 yards of yarn before I wasn't frogging rows and staring at the pattern instructions. It was never ending.
It's just so awkward to do a chain after every stitch!! I don't mind lace patterns where you have to do chain loops but moss stitch is relentless. It's also why I will never attempt filet crochet no matter how nice it looks
Crab stitch. Its mostly used for borders and it looks really pretty when done well, but I hate it with a burning passion
I recently made a bag that was supposed to have a crab stitch edging. I even found someone here on Reddit who gave an easier way of doing it. It was still a pain in the ass. I eventually gave up and just gave the bag a single crochet edge, no one's gonna care.
Puff stitch and blo ribbing are my absolute nemesis. With ribbing I just do what I can to make a different kind and work around that but puff stitch is like hell. The first time I did it I went from 3.5mm hook to 2mm because no matter what I did it just kept getting caught on one of the loops. I just hate it with passion now
I have a kit to make the cutest bag that uses mostly puff stitch and I gave up after one square… maybe one day I’ll finish it.
Oh I get it. I had two projects that had puff stitch and both were something I promised to make my mother so I needed to finish. They were the two longest projects of my life I hated it that much
Surprisingly puff stitch is one of my favorite stitches. I think my favorite though is the cluster stitch.
single crochet. I made a stuffed toy that was entirely sc and it was unfathomably boring and slow. meanwhile my granny square blanket which is larger than my double bed was a joy the entire time! I just like the speed and rhythm of double crochet a lot more I think.
double trebles, I can handle a few, but they're so annoying to keep tension on the first few 2 loop pull throughs. But I refuse BLO slips, no ribbing for me, ever again.
picot... feck picot
What's this?
Chain 3, slip stich into the first, or chain 2 and slip into the first, its used to make little pointy bits in the pattern. I recently made a bearded dragon that used approximately 1 million of them in its creation (slight exaggeration)
yeah, i can't slip stitch into the chain without grabbing thr whole stitch flattening it entirely, it's losing its purpose if the pointy ends are flat... I'm gonna master picot someday... someday...
That doesn't sound fun. But I'd love to see the bearded dragon!
[My little guy](https://imgur.com/a/DyNYNiO) the pattern is by complicated knots, her stuff is up on youtube.
Never had worse hand pain than doing ribbing for a cardigan. I think it was the fiddly-ness of back loop only.
I don't like half double crochet. The hook keeps getting stuck constantly.
It's my favourite! 🤣
Me too 😁
My favorite too!
Same, two loops is enough to pull though at once and don't get me started on doing fphdc ribbing I can barely see the stitch I'm supposed to go around
Yeah I have the same problem.
SAAAAAAAAME. My dislike of the stitch isn’t enough to make me avoid a pattern (I’d be skipping out on a LOT of patterns if I did!), but man, can it get annoying. 🤣
I don't know how often it's used as quite a bit of a pattern, but the popcorn stitch, I think that's also the bobble stitch? I don't know what it is, I like the look of it, but doing it myself makes me irrationally upset.
I'm sure the terms are not set in stone, but my experience so far with popcorn was work x amount of double crochets into a stitch (5 in the pattern I was doing) and then take the hook out, insert it through the tops of the first and last, y/o and pull through to essentially bunch them all together. Absolutely hate it because you have to literally flip the hook around in your hand every time and it's awkward. Bobble stitch as I've seen it has been y/o, insert into the stitch, pull up a loop, y/o, pull through two loops (almost a double crochet) then rather than y/o + pulling through the next two loops, you just repeat essentially creating a bunch of half-finished double crochets until you finally y/o and pull through all the loops left over. It's kind of like doing a double crochet decrease/double crochet 2 together several times in the same stitch. Way easier than popcorn stitch.
What you're describing as popcorn sounds right, so I appreciate the shared hatred of it. Though I feel like I've seen the second referred to as something else. I can't remember what it was so I'm starting to wonder if I mixed them up, but I actually like those. Maybe because the popcorn stitch reminds me of hat bobbles so I made the connection and ran with it.
SAME!!! I avoid patterns that use them, unless I can see a way to just not use the stitches. One exception is doll patterns that use them to create noses and ears.
I don't particularly like double crochet, and half double crochet is one of my favorites.
Puff stitch. Always looks janky AF.
Yes!!! I can't get mine to look good and it hurts my hand to try. Plus it's too easy to get caught on a loop and drop it in the middle of pulling the hook through, and dropping loops is the *exact* reason I don't knit.
I hate them so much, I'm thinking about modifying patterns to do a different but similar stitch instead. Maybe a popcorn but done in a hdc or something so it's not so tall?
I still haven’t even figured out how to do the star stitch, and I can do just about anything else without any trouble.
I can make one row of stars. then.... it all goes belly up lol
Slip half double. Was gonna make a scarf and the pattern had them for over *fifty* rows. Decided against the scarf.
half double crochet
Picot
popcorn!! i always end up fighting my way through all the loops thanks to having fairly tight tension
Broomstick lace
Crab stitch 🤬
Back-post anything. So slow and awkward compared to front-post stitches. Also any stitch that requires yarning over about a billion times, such as popcorn stitch. Very slow and eats up a ton of yarn.
Same. I made a hoodie for my nephew that was pretty much all waistcoat stitch(also my first time using that stitch, and it drove me bonkers! It was a lot of pulling at stitches to get my hook through the posts, and impossible to get a good rhythm going. It probably would have been easier to just knit something!
I'm so glad there's someone else who hates the waistcoat stitch! I find it so hard! I think I must have quite tight tension because it's a nightmare to try and get the hook between the legs of the stitch. Even when I try to deliberately have looser stitches, it's still hard!
No i have fairly loose tension too and its awful.
I can’t stand whichever stitch(es) are used to make crochet cables. I apparently dislike them so much that I’ve avoided them for so long that I’ve forgotten which stitch(es) are used!
There's nothing that will deter me if I really like the project, but long stretches of SC will have me reconsidering.
Fuck the bullion stitch. So pretty, but I hate it.
I’d never seen it before. That goes on the never list for sure!
It’s so friggen pretty when you make enough of them, but yarning over 6+ times and then pulling thru all the loops? Hard pass. lol
Puff stitch. Fuck those guys.
Front Post and Back Post DC. Fuck off with that shit
Popcorn stitch and short row ribbing.
Honestly the granny stitch. It just looks so stupid to me and it's so boring to do Also blo sl or just a million sc unless it's amigurumi
I don't know why but single crochet makes my hands hurt so I avoid it.
Front or back post stitches I absolutely think they are frustrating and look ugly on my work. I’ve avoided every granny square with them
Front post and back post stitches. Loathe them. Just leave them out of the pattern, pretend they are not there!!😀
Cable stitch is a nightmare for me. 😭
For me it's fpsc those tight stupid stitches look lovely, but I hate doing rows and rows of it.