Current theme: 🧶 CABLES 🧶
If there's one design feature that is quintessentially knitting, it's got to be cables! Chonky ones, intricate ones, symmetrical ones or weird ones, almost every knitter has tried them and found out the biggest secret of our craft: cables are a lot easier than they look 🤫
If you're entering a finished project please remember to format your post titles like so to help me easily keep track:
[CABLES] This is an example post title
Thanks 😄
Upcoming themes:
| Date | Theme |
|---|---|
| Mar | Cables |
| Apr | TBD |
| May | TBD |
Previous winners:
| Theme | Winner |
|---|---|
| Knitting fail | Kurobita's accidental moebius |
| Socks | QTpi's string theory socks |
| Baby + Toddler | Weirdsquid's toddler cowl |
| Halloween | TheGiddyStitcher's long-awaited Halloween socks (ugh) |
| New technique | Kurobita's pastel bubble hat |
| Homewares | QTpi's kiddie washcloths |
| Summer knits | Catsdoingcatstuff's Criss Cross Top |
More info:
- The active theme will change every month
- Themes could be anything from "shawls" to "cotton yarn" to "new-to-you techniques" and basically whatever I can think of (suggestions welcome in the comments!)
- You can check current and upcoming themes both here in the sticky thread and also in the sidebar
- Most upvoted project will be declared "winner" and added to the sidebar for the duration of the next round
FAQ
Do the projects need to be old?
Nope they just need to be fully finished
What counts as “fully finished”?
Weave in your ends, slacker!
Can I still post my normal everyday knitting and questions and memes and stuff?
Yes of course, this is just a fun bonus activity
What if a project fits multiple themes?
Honestly, use your judgement. I’ll put a list of the next few upcoming themes in the community sidebar so you can decide where it fits best, or if you’ve not posted it in a while feel free to enter it again! Maybe include different photo angles or a new tip you’ve thought of since last time. I think we have a ways to go before the rate of new posts becomes spammy, at which time we’ll rethink.
Can I enter more than one thing for the same theme?
Absolutely! But please make them separate posts 😊
Do projects that are only partially knitted still count?
As long as there’s some knitting somewhere in there, I for one want to see it!
Huge thank you to everyone who submitted a project for our first theme "summer knits"! I am almost certainly not the only one being enabled, but honestly what did we all expect when we joined this community, we only have ourselves to blame.
Anyway, by my calculations (ie, looking at the counts on lemmy.world where we're hosted!) the project with the most upvotes was the excellent machine-knitted Purl Soho Criss Cross Top from @catsdoingcatstuff@lemmy.nz. Congrats to our first ever winner!
You win...um...basically nothing except your project in the sidebar, the awe of your fellow knitters, and also my gratitude for posting something and making the theme initiative look like a good idea 😅
Not really sure if I should make a new sticky post every time the theme changes to draw more attention, or if I should just make an update in this one. Guess we'll see if anyone notices me doing the latter and if not I'll switch to the former!
Science!
Cool! I'm excited to see some knit home goods next. :)