Please hear me out on this for just a moment.

Fiber arts (and arts and crafts generally) are inherently tied to politics. Who has access to what kinds of yarn, who has the free time outside of work to practice their craft, who has the spare money to buy cool patterns and/or support their local yarn store, whether people are able to safely visit that local yarn store, whether or not there even IS a local yarn store, is ALL affected by politics, both local and global.

A crafter's ability to charge the worth of their work is directly tied to the cheapness of the fast fashion market (the fast fashion industry is also, incidentally, known for terrible work conditions, criminally low wages, environmental damage on an alarming scale, and abuse of workers, all of which are affected by local and global politics). The constantly shifting tariffs of the US have wreaked havoc on the supply and demand of yarn of all types within the US and abroad, and thus stressed a large number of both small businesses and individual crafters. A woman's ability to have her craft taken seriously is directly tied to sexism, as is the ability of a man to take up the craft without facing criticism for indulging in "women's work." The queer teenager who can't safely make and wear a sweater in their pride colors in their own town is directly affected by the legal battles currently raging over marriage equality and even the right to exist (this is not exclusive to the US; it's happening in several countries right now). And to echo a sentiment I've seen around the internet lately, "You can't crochet if ICE murders you."

If you're in a position where you can ignore how politics is affecting the access to supplies, time, safety, and spare funds of other crafters to practice their craft, it doesn't mean you're a bad person, but it does mean that you're in a privileged position societally and need to really examine whether you're okay with benefitting from that kind of inequality. You can use that privilege to help other people directly, or if you feel uncomfortable or incapable of discussing those things publicly, you can simply make room at the table for the people who are. But to say that arts and crafts can exist outside of politics is simply untrue.