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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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[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 135 points 1 year ago

Knitting. Super cheap to start, you can pick up a set of needles and some acrylic yarn for under $20. But when you start getting into nice yarns and bigger pieces, you are spending hundreds of dollars on yarn alone for a blanket or a sweater. And you want nice needles in all sizes as well as all types (double pointed, regular and circular)… more hundreds of dollars.

Moral of the story is if a friend knits you something with nice yarn, please appreciate it. Lots of effort and thought went into it.

[-] Hepco@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Just started crocheting, and I'm just holding myself back from buying all the yarn, it's gonna get bad

[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Whatever you do, don’t go looking for yarn on Etsy. Fuck, I’ve said too much.

My mom knits and she spends way more time unraveling thrift store finds to salvage the yarn than she does actually knitting stuff.

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