#Sweater Curse

[bakedbakermom]

fanfic is not content. fanfic is not a service.

fanfic is a HOBBY.

and like. i knit. i knit for other people. i share my knitting and give it as gifts and enjoy the process and the feedback and seeing someone love something i made and sometimes i will even take requests if i like you enough. but if i'm not having fun, or the person doesn't appreciate it, or they ask for something that will make me miserable or in a way that makes me feel obligated instead of excited... i will frog that shit so fast and you'll never get another sweater again.

people who make demands of fic writers, or scrape our content for sale or ai or whatever, or bitch and moan about our fic not meeting your expectations... you're the same people who will buy a $3 machine-made walmart sweater and then complain when you try to buy a handknit one and it's $350. babe that thing took 80 hours to make and i poured my heart and soul into it. i started with a ball of string and two sticks, and turned it into a hug you can wear. love it or go back to walmart.

[apollos-polls]

The "sweater curse" or "curse of the love sweater" is a term used by knitters and crocheters to describe the belief that if a knitter or crocheter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter

[mothershipt]

[mudpuddless]

circumventing the sweater curse by knitting something to my own measurements knowing fully well that my girlfriend wears the same size and will steal my clothing given half a chance

[the-teapot-collection]

dear tumblr,

how would the sweater curse play out if we’re both aroace and have been platonically engaged as a pseudo-bit since middle school but it’s been so long that we have to commit at this point

[goodbye-paycheck-hello-yarn]

Sweater curse poll! if you dont know what it is check out my previous post, the comments are really insightful. please reblog! im trying to get as many votes as i can.

[projects-and-such]

the guy i'm talking to rn has me down so bad that i'm considering taking on the sweater curse.

[arctic-hands]

Like.

I get it.

As I got older I used to pity the adults in my life who only ever got poorly handmade gifts as presents for Christmas and birthdays because that's all their children could give them. I pitied them for having the smiley politely and gush about a 2D house made of Elmer's glued together popsicle sticks, when they could have gotten like an Xbox or something if someone really cared about them. I even cringed in embarrassment at all the weak, handmade crafts I gave people when I was small.

But like I'm not even a parent and right now if some child gifted me a torn out page of a coloring book filled with just scribbles over the lines? I would prolly weep with gratitude. God help me if an adult in my life gave me something they drew or sculpted or painted or knitted or what have you, and despite how tentative and nervous they are to give it to me because they don't think it's good enough to be worth enough as a gift, I would die of pure bliss

[toomanylizzes]

Ok, last post regarding Wheel of Time and knitting, I swear, but Nynaeve would 100% knit something for Lan unless the Two Rivers had some version of the Sweater Curse.

[froggyfroo-art]

Amphibiuary Day 14: Love

I had an unexpected free day yesterday and since I'd joked about a scenario like this with Bat I decided to make it as a comic! (with some digital editing to make the panels roughly the same size and the text more readable) Not going to go into massive detail but Rhett and Vincent are Gareth's older brothers - Vincent taught Gareth how to knit. Gareth and his brothers are paradoxical frogs, Erika is a green mantella :} Yes the sofa is incredibly janky I have no idea what happened lmao

[its-bread-bitch]

To the girlie in my sociology class who didn’t know about the sweater curse: I’m so sorry boo

[piece-ofmindd]

Sweater Curse

I fell in love the knits and purls of personality

that I had cast onto my own needles.

He didn't even want to pick the color.

It's not like he'd wear it anyways.

I understand the Sweater Curse now.

[citronavalkiro]

Sweater curse? One guy I dated couldn’t even pass the hat curse. No seriously, as soon as I made a hat for him he up and left. Then again we were only seeing each other for a month and I may have scared him off. There is a reason I ended up marrying another autistic person

[oooolookshiny]

I have a serious question for the knitting community.

Does the sweater curse only apply when you make a sweater for a guy?

If I make a sweater for my girlfriend, will the curse still apply?

(I love the idea of lesbians being immune to the curse) ✨️✨️✨️✨️

[lightlyknitted]

If you’ve been around fiber arts circles both in person and online you’ve probably heard of the Sweater Curse. To me the curse is not really anything more than a self fulfilling prophecy.

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[gmabasic]

GUYS does sweater curse apply to sewing too or no because its not hard for me to sew a half zip like it is for me to crochet a crew