My mom and I went to Ikea for the first time the other day (that was An Experience™), and I bought myself a knitted blanket in my favorite color for 25 dollars. And she got mad at me, saying “You could have made that!”
And she’s right. It’s a very simple garter stitch blanket. And I’m all for slow, self-reliant art. I could have made it – if I went out and bought the right sized circular needles, and then 40-50 dollars worth of yarn on the cheap end, and maybe not found the exact color I wanted to keep it in budget, and then spent weeks and weeks working on it (because I’m a lazy bum, you see).
I definitely could have done all that. But sometimes you just want a blanket, you know?
Man I have, off the top of my head, NINE unfinished knit blanket projects. Nine. That shit takes an unholy amount of time, and even the cheap yarn is way too expensive. Blankets are basically a more boring version of the sweater curse.
Like… you either: do a really boring stitch and it takes forever because it’s BORING; do one very long horizontal row that takes forever because it TAKES A LONG TIME to go through 150-200 stitches; do several columns that take a long time because they have to then be meticulously sewn up (I hate sewing knitwork. I just hate it.); or you do an interesting pattern or set of blocks that take a long time because they’re complicated.
Or I could just buy a blanket and spend my time on…literally any other project that I would not find boring.
The Knitter’s Curse is feeling bad about buying literally any knit item
TRUTH.
I knit and crochet, but I crochet much faster than I knit. I’m more than willing to spend time crocheting myself a blanket. But taking 4893243289 years to knit one? Nah fam you can keep that and watch me give Ikea my hard earned cash
You cant even buy the yarn to knit/crochet a blanket for what a machine-knit blanket costs…even with really cheap yarn
We Don’t Talk About my unfinished blanket projects.
And I still buy blankets
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