A netizen received a handmade blanket from their SIL, but she rejected it due to minor imperfections. The story highlights the value of handmade gifts and the importance of appreciating the effort and skill involved.
Even if you are a perfectionist, it’s best to not project that idea onto other people, particularly if they aren’t your direct employees. Similarly, one of the “advantages” of a handmade item is that you can often give suggestions and express your preferences, which can’t always be done if it’s from a factory. Part of this bargain is the acknowledgment that handmade items won’t be factory perfect, unless you are really working with an expert.
To add to this idea, if you actually are working with an expert and they are making something for you as a gift, perhaps relax a little bit.While it’s possible that the SIL didn’t initially understand the scope of her demands, it’s still quite telling that she was so dismissive of the work already put into the blanket. Indeed, she even insulted the netizen’s work, as if it was just a trial run to her. The fact that she refused to accept the reality of fixing crocheting work is quite telling. It’s not exactly rocket science to know that being rude about a well-meaning gift is just horrible, socially. The SIL is well within her rights to be unhappy with the situation, but it’s still the sort of thing you keep to yourself. After all, in this day and age, one can just buy a blanket, taking the time to make one by hand is hours and hours of work. There are sometimes that end up being so terrible that the giver needs to be called out, but this doesn’t seem to be the case here.A more generous explanation would be that she thought you could go back and just make some “adjustments” to crocheting work, but given her tone and the words she used, it seems she has grown accustomed to making demands. This is rude and. She can hide behind her “perfectionisms” but acting like this hardly shows a person to be “perfect,” given that her words were so blatantly insensitive. In other words, she seems willing to sabotage familial relationships over a few mistakes in a blanket.The YTA’s on this one really annoy me as someone who both crochets and knits. Often if you're working on a large crochet or knitting project you don't notice that you've made an error until much later when you can see the whole thing. Especially if it's just a colour change in the wrong place, something that doesn't affect shape or stitch counts. To fix an error at the start you're basically having to unravel everything and start again. Something tiny that you don't notice until you search for it is not a problem. The recipient is being ungrateful of the time, effort and skill that's gone into the gift.Not only that but handmade gifts are so valuable because they are made by hand and that means they aren't going to be perfect. If someone is a perfectionist something that's knitted or crocheted probably isn't for them. Get a machine made mass produced blanket if you want perfection. Is it going to be as special...no, but seeing as her SIL doesn't understand what makes a handmade blanket special in the first place it doesn't really matter. I really hope the recipient doesn't have kids as they're going to grow to have serious anxiety issue
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