Unfortunately for me, I didn’t get to use AI for my assignments because it came after I was done with school or maybe I found it after school so I was left with just one option: for my crocheting. As a crocheter, it’s always a delight to make your own designs. Is it time consuming? Yes, is it stressful? Yes but is it also worth it? Yes it really is. I don’t know if it’s just me but I started seeing all these really nice pictures AI could generate and felt oh! What if I generated my crochet designs with AI?
Most crocheters don’t even talk about this but one of the most difficult things in crocheting is color combinations. Sometimes you know exactly what you want to do but do not know which colours will be perfect for the project. So I thought if AI was to design for me, then all I had to do was to put in my design command right? All my crochet life, I have never really tried seeking for help for my projects so when I got access to AI, I felt like “yayyy, what I need is here”. I tried using AI for my designs and…..
Before I forget, crocheting is 100% handmade unlike knitting. There are even knitting machines available now but I’m not sure if there could be crocheting machines but then handmade magic attached to crochet is what gives its unique touch. Back to what I was saying, I used AI for crochet designs and I liked it and didn’t like it..
Let me explain. If you have seen these AI generated pictures, you’ll see how dreamy they look. Oh I can’t deny the fact that they are so beautiful. However, as a crocheter they look so unrealistic. I already spoke about how crochet is 100% handmade, if something I’m supposed to make with my hands look unrealistic to me then how will I make it? At first glance, you go like wowwww and at second look you ask yourself “how are you even going to make that with just hands, hook and yarn?”.
I know there are really very talented people in the world that can crochet anything at all but it’s a little different with me. Now, let me talk from my point of view as a crocheter and what works for me. Anytime I want to crochet something, I check out which stitches and patterns would work for that project. Fortunately for me, I can even look at the picture and know which pattern or stitches but with AI, it’s different. I’m unable to know what pattern or stitches.
Sometimes it even feels like it’s a sewn piece and not crochet. Sometimes it looks like it was knitted. I simply can’t see what exactly it’s made of. Sometimes it even looks like it’s tapestry. Do you know what that means? It means I’ll have sit down and look on that design to bring out the pattern which means it’s even better I design my thing from scratch.
All in all, AI does a great job with generating art pieces. The “overall creativity” is really mind blowing but for me as a crocheter, I think the “level of creativity” is quite unrealistic, of course in terms of “crocheting”.It looks so cool that you end up not even knowing how to start and how to end. This is entirely my view and solely based on what I think because I believe there probably might be other crocheters somewhere finding AI generated designs very realistic and easy to crochet.
Images Were Generated With AI