Hey, r/ Croch-AITA! So just for context I (18F) am a uni student and I keep most of my yarn at my parents house while living in student accommodation just because I don’t have enough space. I came back to visit the other day to find that my mum (79F) has used up most of my yarn for her own projects. I was devastated when I looked in my yarn basket to find only a few scraps left of my yarn. I try to buy most of my yarn secondhand and save it for future projects so you can imagine how devastated I was to see most of it gone.

My mum (81F) has made multiple crochet blankets with the intention of selling them, but the blankets she has made are objectively very ugly and the colour combinations are questionable (photo shows one of the better blankets). She only intends to sell her blankets for around £500 each which is sad both when thinking of the time she spent on them, and the cost of the yarn itself. I’m such a perfectionist myself when it comes to crochet to the point where I will frog something I’m not 100% satisfied with, so when I saw all my yarns that I had envisioned using for specific projects used carelessly and non-consensually in this way I wanted to break down and cry.

So anyway here's where I might be the croch-a-hole: When I discovered what my mum (82F) had done, I methodically found her prized crafting shears handed down to her from five generations of quilters and used them to cut the blankets she made with my yarn into a thousand million tiny bits, shred her couch cushions to ribbons, cut open all her cereal boxes so they'd go stale, and finally to cut a whole bucket of geodes open before placing them back in her secret crafting drawer.

After that, I got on Facebook to tell my aunt (89F) that my mum (83F) (her sister) would be more than delighted to take over crocheting every newly engaged person in our extended family a personalized custom blanket and that she would get started right away on the eight outstanding blankets for the four soon-to-be-wedded couples all getting hitched in the next six months. My aunt was overjoyed at the news that someone so young would be able to take over since her arthritis has been acting up for the last 30 years.

Then, I signed her up for five test crochet projects with brand new designers who refuse to use conventional terminology in their patterns and have incredibly short turnaround times on complex designs that are barely even really crochet. I gave them her mobile number so they could harass her themselves.

So anyway, do you think I'm the AH? I accept your judgment, whatever it may be, oh good commenters of r/ Croch-AITA -- I know you're so reasonable and down to earth!

It's just... fugly. Fugly as sin. smh