A Deep Dive Into the Chunky Boy Crochet Lore

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  @sarahndipity_7 · 10 months ago

  as a knitter watching crochet drama makes me feel like the nosy neighbor peeking over the fence

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  @sophie427 · 2 years ago

  you said a complaint was the holes being misaligned and i assumed that meant a little off center. NOTHING could have prepared me for those pictures. absolutely no quality control indeed

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  @CubeIsHorse · 2 years ago

  Every time they said “chunky boy hook handle” i just kept going “man door hand hook car door”

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  @rowan6650 · 2 years ago

  Something about her phrasing the store not succeeding financially as "we didn't get the support we needed from the community to stay open" feels really off to me. Like, it shifts blame off onto others for a perceived "owing" the store support. And she clarifies more in the interview and kind of owns up to not really knowing the area well/thinking it through much but it's still said in a way that makes it feel  like she's shifting blame.

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  @barbiekillzone · 1 year ago (edited)

  I purchased it when she first got popular. Mine was so off-center and wonky that the thinnest part tore in less than a week. I emailed her with photos, showed how off-center the hole went through, and explained how it tore where the hook went too close to the side she gaslit me telling me I was too rough with it, and basically told me it was "due to newbie crocheter error". I'm almost old enough to be her mother and have been crocheting before she was born. She ended up blocking me on every platform for calling her out. Let me add, I wasn't expecting flawless. I knew it was handmade and would have been fine with a slight misalignment. Mine was beyond slight. At the thinnest part, you could see and feel the hook. That is where it tore at. That was unacceptable.

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  @longtailedbroadbill · 2 years ago

  I&apos;m an OT, no idea what study, but its about the same diameter as &quot;built up handles&quot; which are for people with hand dysfunction who have problems grasping narrow tools like pens, toothbrushes etc. It&apos;s a foam tube that can be fit to customize whatever. <br><br>And the concept of designing something for someone with a disability and then finding society as a whole benefits from it is called Universal Design.

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  @princess_intell · 2 years ago

  If you are a small business owner, quality control MUST be your #1 priority. The fact that people were getting their handles in flat-out incorrect colorways and/or with defects this glaring is appalling to me.

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  @Mintii22 · 2 years ago

  the hardest decision when it comes to these videos is deciding between eating while watching or knitting/crocheting while watching. The struggle is real :(

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  @cricketonthemoon · 11 months ago

  couple weeks ago i drove past the old chunky boy storefront and felt like i was witnessing a historical artifact

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  @mal1782 · 1 year ago

  She honestly seems to think that good intentions are a justification for messing things up. In the beginning, it could have been understandable that nothing was perfect but after months, she should have realized that she needed a break for the well-being of her business and to respect her clients. When she explained the death of her shop—which is easily explainable by the fact that the area wasn’t adapted—she still didn’t take responsibility and blamed others.<br>I don’t know why this attitude frustrates me so much, being a “cutie patootie” doesn’t divorce you from being objectively wrong and having to do some introspection.

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  @tropezando · 2 years ago

  Hi, I&apos;m here to solve problems for cheap because I&apos;m a poor, disabled person. I use bubble wrap, ace bandages, pool noodles, stress balls, chunks of craft/upholstery foam, and those foam can coolers (the neoprene type ones) to modify things to have more comfortable handles. Just wrap whatever you need and tape/glue/spray adhesive. Ta dah! Though, the polymer clay original idea works well too, but it&apos;s a little more spendy.<br><br>It seems like it would have been faster and more accurate to make the hole a part of the mold rather than trying to individually drill a notoriously hard to drill material. Silicone shreds with traditional wood drill bits, you&apos;d have to use a punch of some kind, or a sharpened empty tube. I&apos;d be really curious to know how she did it.

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  @ShawnaMerrill · 2 years ago

  love learning lore about things that don&apos;t seem like they should have lore

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