Unfortunately more and more AI is popping up in the crochet world. More trashy AI patterns, more AI pictures of fake crocheted creations and worst of all, more misleading AI listings for crochet items/patterns in online shops. They are pushing out real artists, demotivating crafters, scamming customers and overall just flooding the scene with low-quality slop.

This is an interesting article about the rise of AI in the crochet world, and why it's important to be aware of it:
https://luddite.pro/why-you-should-care-more-about-crochet-and-ai/

Here's also a video about how to recognize AI for all things crochet, so you can protect yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3rfego8Ow&list=WL&index=6

Stay safe and stay creative!

#crochet #amigurumi #handmade #crafting #craft #crocheting

Picture of three crocheted amigurumi animals, posing next to each other, with their arms on each other's backs. From left to right it's a cow, a fox with a blue scarf and a lilac rabbit.

#crocheting

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**Sean Bala** @seanbala@mas.to · 1d

Sean Bala @seanbala@mas.to

The #Framework Laptop 13 is a slightly unusual size and aspect ratio. So, instead of getting a case that "kind of" fits, I had one custom made from this great #Canadian artist from #Quebec on #Etsy who specializes in making things from kimono fabrics. This is my second one from them and the quality of both is excellent. If you are in the market for a new case, please give their shop a look:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/MofLeema

@frameworkcomputer

A Framework Laptop 13 and an handmade laptop case on a bamboo desk. The case has a red floral pattern on the front with a black fabric on the top with a large wooden button.

#art #craft #technology

**Alx** @alx@mastodon.design · 1d

Alx @alx@mastodon.design

My Saturday started early, and my field work ended with unplanned hands on porcelain clay. My PhD is a dance between exhaustion and absolute marvel.

My hand holding a small sketchbook with an ink drawing of a cafe that can be seen blurred in the background

Rough clay sculpture of a chamberlain fairy face

#saturday #making #craft

**anna_lillith** @anna_lillith@mas.to · 1d *

anna_lillith @anna_lillith@mas.to

By #mending a cotton t-shirt instead of replacing it, you could help to save over 7.5kg in #CO2e. That would be equivalent to ironing for over 25 hours.

The days of being told that #repair isn't an important part of a garment's life cycle are gone. I hope this will also lead to a change in the way that repair is perceived in our society; as a skilled and valuable #craft that deserves to be invested in and as a powerful environmental and political act.

... and if the item can't be repaired, over 3 in 5 of our second hand clothing purchases habe displaced the need to buy new ones.

Photo of delicate blue and red mending in strip patterns on black background

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**Line** @LineJ@pixelfed.social · 1d

Line @LineJ@pixelfed.social

Finished some sketchbooks yesterday, i made from old bookcovers for the little craft market in april

#sketchbook #bookbinding ##craft #handmade #diy #upcycling

#upcycling

**Nettle needle felting** @Nettleneedlefelting@mastodon.social · 2d

Nettle needle felting @Nettleneedlefelting@mastodon.social

Hello!
Thank you for your attention to my first post and my first #craft And now to business. This is something like a small survey. Would you like such a #plant #bookmark for #books if you do not pay attention to the color (this is a test copy from the colors that I had)? It is made by #needlefelting 100% from nettle.
#plants #gardening #flowers #handmade #smallbusiness #fediverse #fediart #mastoart #art #artwork #artist #giftideas #fedigiftshop #pixelfedart #pixelfed

On a white background there is a hardcover diary with a Van Gogh painting on it. A snowdrop seems to be growing out of the diary, made in dark gray and red colors (these colors because this is a trial copy and there were only these colors). This plant is a bookmark for books, made by needle felting from nettle. Thank you for your attention!

A bookmark in the shape of a snowdrop (a plant with roots, it looks like it is growing from a book), made from nettles using needle felting. The snowdrop is made in dark gray and red, because so far I only had these colors to test. The bookmark lies on the page of an open book, which is on a white background, with dry plants lying nearby. Thanks you for your attention!

**Aral Balkan** @aral@mastodon.ar.al · 2d *

Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI #VibeCoding #design

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