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Most hated aspect of any project?
As I prepare for the second ironing of roughly 10 yards of binding, it got me thinking. I hate binding quilt. It is the absolute as far as I'm concerned.
When it comes to knitting, it's binding off socks. I don't know how, or why, but even if I go up two need sizes, it's always too tight.
Maybe it's because when the binding, or the bind off is complete, it means there's no more going back. It's done. No more oportunity to (easily) go back and make changes.
How about you? What part do you hate most?




I agree with you about binding off/finishing projects. I hate doing it because it means it's complete and nothing more to be done. I've left projects sitting on my needles for 2 or 3 weeks just because I didn't want to do that very ending.
Well, besides my embroidery screw up that threw away 14 months of my life in about 20 minutes (5 months of actually working on the project, and 9 months and counting of not touching embroidery), I would say fill stitches as a hand embroiderer.
Oh no! That sounds horrible!
It's definitely finishing up and sewing stuff onto crochet projects. I've recently started making amigurumi and the bulk of it is a lot of fun. But sewing limbs and other accessories on to stuffed crocheted bodies is such a pain!
I hate seaming so much too.
Cleaning up afterwards! Ugh. I just did this amazing thing, and I want to just sit and look at it. I don't want to pick up fabric scraps or wait for the hot glue gun to cool down or put the scissors away.
Since I broke my arm, and it isn't as strong any more, I don't like rotary cutting fabric for a quilt.
My sister said that she and her friend decided they wouldn't allow them to dislike any part of the process. I'm trying adopt that mind set. I actually like binding a quilt because it means I will be able to enjoy the finished product soon. Also, I will soon be able to get going on the multitude of other projects on my queue.
I'm a bead worker, and it's the opposite problem for me. Set-up is hell. Picking out beads, making sure I have enough, stringing beading needles... I hate it.
And even that nowhere near approaches the hatred I have for setting up bobbin lace. Winding bobbins and drawing out the pattern is frequently half as much time as the actual project itself! Ugh. Setup.
Oh man, I've done some beaded knitting before, and the prep for that was annoying to say the least. I can only imagine what a full beadworking project must be like. My sympathies!
I can't stand doing dishes. I've hated it ever since I was little when my mother used it as a punishment chore.
One of my recent projects involved cutting lots of things out of ABS plastic (that is the kind of plastic they use for Lego) sheets. It was too much to cut by hand and needed to be precise, so I paid a waterjet cutter to cut out the pieces. Waterjets are these huge machines built over the dirtiest bathtub you can imagine. You put your sheet on top and it sends super-high pressure water and agate sand down to cut through plastic or metal or pretty much anything. And when you get the parts back, they are dirty at best and covered in sludge at worst.
So then I had somehow taken my hobby project that was supposed to be fun and added a couple of hours on each batch of washing dishes as I had to take a dish sponge and scrub the dirt off each plastic piece. Ugh.
That sucks. I don't think I can live without a dishwasher anymore, let alone having it be a part of my crafting.
Unpicking. Always unpicking. The fact that I end up doing this a lot doesn't help.
For me, it's the design work.
I design/make/sell leather bags. Almost everything I do is custom order, so a significant part of any project is design; figuring out what the customer wants, what that practically translates into, making a prototype, and redesigning.
All that can take as long as the actual art of working the leather, without the satisfaction of finishing the job. The ideal day for me when I know 100% this absolutely is what the customer wants and I can go through the steps of dyeing, sewing, finishing a complete product.
Man, I hate doing custom work for people.
I've taken the approach that I don't tell people things are incoming... Even if they are 3 months later in delivery.
I hate that just when I get in a strong groove my joints start acting up and I have to stop until next time. I am not old yet, but man I wish I was younger sometimes!