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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I knitted gorgeous socks and scarves in hand-dyed merino for some good friends. Come Christmas they obviously thought, oh MrsDoyle likes knitting, let's get her something knitting related! A selection of the cheapest, nastiest acrylic in hideous colours and some needles. Oooooh. Thank you so much.

Yeah protip never buy a hobbyist anything unless they tip you what they want.

[-] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. I'm into fountain pens, and I've received cheap feather dip pens on two separate occasions. Didn't have the heart to tell em.

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Ouch... Yeah. As a general rule of thumb, if I'm buying someone something craft related it's either because I know enough about the craft to get them something truly nice, or I get them a gift card to their favorite craft related place. Outside of that, I'll just ask them what they want. Lol. I enjoy a bunch of different crafts, including wood working. A friend once got me a set of chisels when they found out I liked wood working. ... They were plastic with just the very ends being metal, and would break if you looked at the harshly. Lol. The thought behind it was sweet, but they had no idea what they were doing. Lol.

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

The story had a bit of a happy ending - I paired the yarn and needles with a "learn to knit" book, and donated it to a raffle a club I belong to was holding. The winner of the kit was thrilled!

[-] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Oh that's an awesome idea!

We've been discussing the need to get some of our yarn to a new home. There's so much, and it's just never going to be used as there's just literally too much.

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