I learned when I was in hospital for 12 weeks. I love buying pretty yarn and I love giving people handmade gifts. I love that moment when I finish a long project too.
I just have an obsession with all needle crafts My main thing is def embroidery tho but I do want to get into crochet a bot more especially for bags with stiffer anatomy since im not very good at making knitting as stiff as crochet appears to be
I just wanted to say that people telling Emma to go back to school always bugged me the wrong way because it always came with the "you never went to uni". I drop out of the university because it's not for me. To have half of the internet tying your worth as a human being to your degree is disgusting.
I would be like a little kid in this place. So much fabulousness! You looked like you were having a lot of fun there, Jesus. I hope you got the small Dior wicker bag. It was so cute. You're right, too. MOMCOCO is handbag heaven.
Not gonna lie. I OWN the authentic in that same exact color and I STILL got it wrong! And I even use the bag every single day! Only goes to show how damn good these MOMCOCO are visually. Now guessing which is the fake by feeling them both in my hands is another story.
i started crocheting back in 2012, just because i got really bored when i had no connection to the internet. also wanted to be able to prove my old teacher wrong since she yelled at me that i'd never be able to learn how to crochet. so i started out of boredom and pettiness, i guess 😅
The pandemic also brought me to crochet. I actually learned how to do it to make among us plushies for my friends and me but because of the pandemic I never got it to them before among us kind of died as a trend lol
I have sensory processing disorder and I started to crochet because I thought it would be a good form of tactile stimulation to help regulate my nervous system - and it works! My grandma (who was a teenager in the 60s and early 70s) crocheted, and crocheting has helped bring back fond memories of her, since she passed away in 2021. My only wish is that I'd stuck with it as a kid when she initially taught me how to crochet.
honestly so glad crochet is more popular lol, I remember trying to learn when I was 9-11 but they didn't have many tutorials on RU-vid for left handed people and the tutorials were often hard to follow because they would cover their stitches!!! I finally learned once I was 17 and it has been a year! I even made my first dress.
Oi, eu sou do Brasil. Aqui usamos o crochê como uma forma de ganhar renda extra. Acho que além da dificuldade que alguém da geração z sente em conseguir um emprego bom, o crochê é uma forma de expor a sua visão de mundo. Então essa volta é uma junção de fatores que considero, além de tudo que você falou, um reflexo de como a sociedade está odiando o capitalismo. A geração z preza muito mais pelo bem estar e prioriza o prazer de viver que não quer mais ficar 8h trabalhando para o outro para ganhar pouco.
I never thought of crochet like that it's really interesting. I was actually first crocheting and then started seeing all the trends and people on RU-vid. My roommate in college had minimal knowledge and she tried to make a blanket, I saw her working and thought it was interesting (and as someone already in multiple art hobbies any art is appealing to me). I stuck with it she dropped it so that was fun
Im been crocheting for several years now even created a few of my own pieces as well as utilized patterns. I been doing it before it was trendy started in 2011 in my early 20s but was introduced to it by my mother and great grandmother as a young girl. I started wanting to learn to carry on a family tradition, which started with making a blanket. I also got into sewing because of my grandmothers and great grandmothers.
It's very interesting to me that crochet has taken off and become trendy while knitting hasn't seemed to have the same boom in the crafting world. It's a little annoying but only because I'm a knitter and I struggle to find patterns, tutorials and designs that are for my generation and more trendy compared to how crochet patterns seem almost catered to our generation now.
Wow, this went way deeper and more researched than I was expecting. Well done! I just want to add one social element at work in the 50s and 60s. Background: "War knitting" was huge in WWI, when manufactured knitwear was less available and sometimes, especially in the case of socks, inferior (purchased socks often had a seam at the toe that wore at the skin and invited infection). Knitters picked up their needles again in WWII, though manufactured knit goods were more available. When the war ended, some women who had knit like machines through both wars dropped their needles and said, "I'm done!" The rise of consumerism (a deliberate economic move in the 50s) arrived with less expensive manufactured clothing, synthetic materials that could be easily machine-washed, and an idealized lifestyle of abundance and leisure in the relatively new suburban housing developments brought to you by chemistry and mass manufacturing. Yarn manufacturers saw a decline in sales and the knitting magazines and ads show the first hints of desperation. The pre-war yarn ads tended to be about quality. Post-war yarn ads are about fun! fashion! washable! glamour! easy-care! new! And babies. Lots of baby fashions as the post-war baby boom began in earnest. By the time ths 60s rolled around, the feminist movement was gaining traction, and with that, rejection of traditional feminine roles. Of course, that included knitting and crochet. The clothing industry was totally on board with that, naturally. Anyone remember the paper dress, a brief fad in the 60s? One early (and failed) attempt at "fast fashion" so fast that it was literally as disposable as paper plates. Where did this leave the yarn companies? Take a look at patterns from the late 60s and through the 70s. You can feel the desperation as you look at their attempts to pull in young knitters and crocheters. "Fast knits!" everywhere. The "3-hour" dress in bulky yarn. Hippies were a boon to the industry, with their back-to-the-land rejection of consumerism and penchant for wearing crochet. It's thanks to hippie culture that hand spinning survived this era. Crochet had a reputation of being easier than knitting, so many hopes were raised when granny squares became THE fashion fad of the early 70s. But hippies weren't an easy marketing target, and so many of the patterns of the early 70s that seemed to be trying to bring hippie fashion to the masses using garish acrylic yarns and traditionally attractive models and poses were... to be kind... unfortunate. Even more unfortunate was the new perception that crochet was clunky and ugly and always involved cheap acrylic yarn -- forgotten, I suppose, were the fine lace pieces of earlier decades, replaced by visions of crocheted toilet tissue covers in the shape of dolls.. It was the Big Sweater fashions of the 80s that first inspired a knitting revival, in the middle of a fad for cross-stitch. Then came the internet in the 90s, knitters met knitters and crocheters met crocheters online... and here we all are. And now I've gone waaay beyond the promised "one social element." Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I started crocheting in 2013 and LOVE that so many more people are into now because there are way more crochet pattern videos and inspo than there used to be when I started. A lot of the youtube vids were older women and not very in style. There's so much more variety. I'm in my early 30s now, and the younger generation is SO creative. It's fun learning from them 😊
Very interesting video! One thing that has struck me about how crochet is presented among youth on social media is the emphasis on patterns/projects that are fast (and therefore implying you can then more easily make multiple versions of the same or similar projects). The emphasis is less on carefully choosing projects, I sometimes get the sense that MORE IS MORE!! within the crochet community. Comparing to how knitters talk about their projects, the yarn they want or plan to use or just their journey on hitting the "correct" tension/guage I the two fiber crafts having a very different tone on the same social media. For some time I felt like I must crochet at an below average pace because I could not produce many projects. When I started speaking to people offline I got a very different experience on how much or how often people crochet in their daily lives. With that said: Of course the people who are able to produce a lot of projects are the people who will post on social media most often. Those of us who are still working on the same project for months or years at a time won't post because we don't have any updates. 🤣
This has all been so interesting to me to watch. I learned to crochet as a child, probably around 25 years ago. I actually learned to knit only a couple of years ago and suddenly noticed that people are very weird about knitting when they only crochet. Crochet is the new hip thing and even though a lot of people are also picking up knitting, I think it gets seen as the craft of old and/ or pretentious people. Like crochet is cool and countercultural but knitting is the establishment. Again, I’ve crocheted for 25 years and crocheters have always had a chip on their shoulders but with the youths picking it up, some have created a rivalry that’s far more defensive than based on anything real. We should all be celebrating more being involved in fiber arts as a community. A rising tide lifts all ships.
would anyone be interested in coming together once or twice a week on an discord channel like an online crocheting community to some lofi background music and just quietly crochet together? maybe it already exists? lol loop me in if someone knows if there is already something like that out there
Honestly, a lot of the influencers I watched and are now mega rich… I kinda stopped watching and keeping up with. I stayed up with the smaller influencers because honestly, they are more comforting and encouraging. lol so I just think everyone is different and it definitely changes as you grow with age.
I also want to talk about how the reason Emma stepped away from RU-vid isn’t solely due to her being given more opportunities with luxury brands. She’s talked about how she was depressed at the time where she was kinda at the height of her fame, and its easy to understand how sharing your life so intimately at a time like that may make things worse. I’m sure that the new opportunities she was getting, as well as the success of her new coffee company allowed her to step away from that when she needed to. And that becomes more evident as her content changed dramatically since she took that initial break, and it became much more artistic and less personal, as if we knew her. Bestdressed Ashley could be compared to this too as during the height of her fame she was stalked, and it can be assumed that that was what led her to quit RU-vid. I think it’s interesting to think about how fame makes these once relatable RU-vidrs resort to something less vulnerable and personal, such as working with high fashion brands, as the criticism and also burden of being so vulnerable online gets to become too much. Loved the video!
I started crochet but I only make decor pieces, toys for my kids and houseplants (since I always kill mine). I am pregnant with back pain and since I sit a lot, I use the time efficiently (typical German I guess)
I first learned crochet back in elementary but I picked it back up during the pandemic, I have the basics down and the accessible tutorials so it was not hard to get going. I mostly do it as a past time so my hands are doing something when I watch movies and videos on youtube with the added merits of having finished products. I give them as gifts to friends which is nice because I'm a big gift giver. I also sell crochet goods every now and then mostly flowers and amigurumi. I'dm say I love this hobby because it's a useful skill, if not a bit stressful at times
One thing I love about handmade clothes is the side effect that the creator then learns just how much effort goes into a garment. And then it spirals into appreciating all your clothes and being more mindful about it, in a world where mindfulness is replaced with automation.
I crochet now but I started with knitting because I love cozy clothes and enjoy making things by hand. I like how there are so many video tutorials for crochet, more than when I started knitting though there are more now. It can be an expensive hobby but it doesn't have to be, so it's very accessible. Though I don't have nearly as much time as I'd like to do all the projects on my boards.
I disagree with the take here. Someone can be very rich and influectial, live in luxury but can still be relatable. Kardashians might be relatable to people becouse they have big family, Kim might be ralatable becouse she is of unusual figue so girl with this kimd of body relate t her, other might be mothers like her. You can ralate to celebrity becouse of political views, sense of style etc. That is how people realete to celebrites and othe people generally. The money is not the most impportant thing.
I've been crocheting since I was 9 and stopped for years (no particular reason). I was recommended crochet videos here on RU-vid and I really loved the patterns, so I bought some yarn and picked it back up again. Before this trend, I remember being made to feel bad for wanting to make my own things because "that's for old ladies." Not that there's anything wrong with being elderly, but I think people just saw it as something a grandmother would do, hence the stereotype. I started making my own leg warmers and a stuffed animal that I'm wanting to gift to my niece. There should be no shame, no matter who you are, how old you are, in desiring to create a piece and work of art that you made with your own hands. Seeing other girls and people my age starting to pick this up feels nice. It goes against the norm and there's nothing more fun than trying something new.
I bought a cactus crochet kit and realised I couldn’t understand how the written patterns worked and didn’t know any terms. I learned from RU-vid, started making squares, progressed to bags, hats and 2.5 years later I’m making my own clothes etc and I still haven’t finished that little crochet kit 😂
I think it's still important to think about where your yarn comes from, who produces it and under what circumstances. Because even if you are not participating in fast fashion in that sense, it still is textile
I agree with the statement that crocheting your own clothes contributes to slow fashion with a caveat: I think that is only true until you use good quality yarn. With the resurgence of crochet we see a yarn itself as being a fast fashion item, for example the £2 yarn that ALDI sells. A lot of yarn is made from polyester that is awful for the environment and the clothes you make from it can deteriorate in quality after a couple washes and wears. I know that not everyone can afford real wool or high quality materials but I think we cannot call crocheting a slow fashion movement if we use materials that fast fashion would. There are ways to get good quality yarn for cheap e.g. thrifting or unravelling old sweaters that can be sustainable without buying into fast fashion yarn.
