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Edited by MissPriss at 2025-5-1 02:34
For sewing.... I'm tired of seeing tiny changes made to patterns, often by the same pattern designer, and then the "new" pattern is sold for the same price as the "old" pattern. Just write a damn tutorial. Hell, I'd even pay a little bit extra for the tutorial as an "add-on". But I'm not buying another pattern that's $8-20 dollars because you removed the sleeves and adjusted the waistline on one of your existing patterns. It makes me not want to purchase from those designers at all.
For knitting.... PetiteKnit. A lot of her stuff is cute, but a lot of it is so mindnumbingly basic, and patterns for that style exist already. I could understand if her patterns were beautifully written and a breeze to work through, but they're not. They are mediocre patterns of mid-tier designs that people pay a premium for. It's all about hype, and there's the unspoken part where her lifestyle is aspirational to a lot of knitters, and that's part of the hype. She's Danish, blonde, thin, conventionally attractive, married to a conventionally attractive man, and has adorable kids. I feel like there's a lot of that "aspirational" urge to buy Andrea Mowry's patterns, too, but I have a lot more admiration for Andrea Mowry as a designer. Her patterns are higher quality, too.
EDIT: Oh! I forgot to mention - I'm tired of seeing popular designers openly copy from up-and-coming designers, without giving any kind of credit. This gets glossed over all of the time, and no one wants to talk about it because it's "rude" and most people don't want the drama associated with their name if they call it out. The most egregious example of this I can think of is Camilla Vad ripping off a very complex design motif that was created by Fiber Tales for the "Gro" series. Camilla Vad took that very specific motif, which took a lot of time to tweak and fine-tune to make it look juuuuusstt right, and then she used it in her "Field" series without any credit. Camilla Vad has made at least $38,000 on the Field series, and that's a low estimate just based on projects posted to Ravelry. Meanwhile, hardly anyone knows who Fiber Tales is. Fiber Tales talked very briefly in a youtube video about a "famous designer" who used her Gro motif without permission or credit, and that she (Fiber Tales) had been in the middle of writing/testing a Gro sweater pattern when the famous designer released her sweater pattern. It was very demoralizing and Fiber Tales felt like she couldn't release her sweater pattern without causing a lot of drama. I was gobsmacked - I had noticed that Camilla Vad used Fiber Tales's motif, but I had assumed she'd done so with permission. It's not subtle, and the instructions for making it are very specific and not something two people would separately converge on and "discover" independently the way that simpler motifs are. Both of these designers are from a tiny country (Denmark), and I imagine that the knitting industry there is small enough that they run in some of the same professional circles. I lost a lot of respect for Camilla Vad as a result of this, and I have to wonder if her famous Magnolia motif was similarly copied from someone less known without any credit.
For crochet... I wish there were more mosaic patterns (mosaic is actually really easy and fun, but it can be time-consuming), and more advanced patterns in English. |
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