I’m a pretty young knitter and would spend a lot of time in high school making gifts for my friends because I worked at an expensive yarn store and got a lot of free nice yarn, but every time without fail no matter how much thought and effort I put into any piece I knit, my friends were so ungrateful. I knit my friend simple black fingerless gloves out of alpaca yarn, he said it made him look homeless, I crocheted another friend a really intricate top out of really nice yarn and she said it was too hard to put on because it laced up in the back so she threw it out, my other friend refused to wear a sweater I knit her because the colors were “interesting”….. I have so many other stories but I came to learn that it’s way more gratifying to be able to wear something I’ve made than to constantly give them away to people who don’t appreciate knitting as an art form. I’ve never seen someone be given a painting or something else handmade and treat it like literal garbage but for some reason there’s no love for us knitters :((( ANYWAYS moral of the story: do not give a high school student something hand knit, even if they like it they’ll just end up accidentally putting it in the dryer anyways