Recently on Ribblr I’ve seen more rants about fake AI crochet patterns, fake AI products, and I”m so glad that we are standing up against this nonsence!
So I’m just going to say it: I hate resold crochet. 
Not handmade crochet. Not beginner crochet. Not people learning.
I mean the people who buy someone else’s handmade work and then flip it for profit like it’s a thrifted T‑shirt.
Crochet isn’t fast. It isn’t cheap. It isn’t mass-produced. In reality, it’s hours of counting, frogging, re-doing. So when people resells other people’s work for more money, without credit, without permission, without even understanding the craft, it feels like a slap in the face to every crocheter who’s ever stayed up past midnight finishing a project.
Recently I’ve seen more resold crochet items, even at Hobby Lobby! This makes it hard for a small business to sell crochet projects. And it makes it harder for us to sell our crochet at a market, when there’s another booth selling resold crochet for half the price!
If you want to sell crochet, learn the craft.
If you want to support crochet, buy directly from the maker.
If you want to profit off someone else’s stitches… maybe rethink your life choices.
Crochet is art. Crochet is skill. Crochet is time.
And it deserves respect — not reselling.
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yes!! Don’t forget about the “machine crochet“ things being sold for cheap that takes most of us so long to make
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yess omg speak your TRUTH
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That’s terrible! They do it at Hobby Lobby?
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Yeah, Today I saw a truckload of crochet flowers that were defininetly store bought!
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Same!! I saw some at Hobby Lobby the other day.
They were flowers and some little animals as well.
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It’s sad seeing those items there 
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100% but let me add onto this hot take. Reselling is okay ONLY in the scenario someone finds it at a thrift or somewhere else secondhand and then resells it for cheap. They cant credit the original creator and i think stopping an item from going to the landfill and contributing to the overconsumption crisis might just justify selling the craft as a non-crocheter as long as its GENUINE non machine made AND secondhand. Just my take i could be really wrong 
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The funny thing is crochet cant even be done by a machine so if you see crochet items in a large chain store it’s either 1: made by people forced to make it in factories, or 2: machines knitted it to look like crochet. Which is just wrong
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OMG YES. I have seen SO MANY fake crochet knitted projects that even as a crocheter sometimes get confused. OUT WITH FAKE CROCHET I SAY!
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That is sad that factories are taking over all the homeade goods that are actually better quality when not made in bulk. Which means that homeade goods are better made because it takes longer to make good quality instead of stort time and cheap quality. Everything is from amazon now and nobody is going to those cute little boutiques. I think that they use a machine for commercial knitting and crocheting products.
And it’s taking away profit from small businesses who need the money from their product sales to make a living
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Cough cough-TEMU-cough cough
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