Hello my lovely yarn enthusiasts! It’s time to get my embarrassing, over-enthusiastic moderator hat back on again, apologies in advance.

One thing I’d really love to do is encourage people to post more old projects to the community. Knitting is a slow craft, we don’t produce a constant stream of stuff, and I think livening things up by showing off our older bits and pieces is a fun plan! Plus there’s always something to learn from what others share, new patterns and yarns to find, and new techniques to hear about for the very first time.

No idea if anyone will go along with me on this, but here’s the plan:

• The active theme will change every two weeks, starting tomorrow (Saturday 9th Sep).
• Themes could be anything from “shawls” to “cotton yarn” to “new-to-you techniques” and basically whatever I can think of.
• There’ll be a pinned post, plus themes will be shown in the sidebar too.

During those two weeks, posts about fully finished projects that fit the theme are highly encouraged! Title them like so to help me pick them out of the crowd:

[THEME] This is an example post title

At the end of the two weeks the theme project with the most upvotes will be added to the sidebar as some approximation of a prize 😄This will be kind of unscientific due to how vote federation works (or in some cases doesn’t), but I’ll try my best.

It’s just a bit of fun, and we’ll see how it goes.

Thoughts? Worries? Complaints? Suggestions for future themes or a better prize? All very welcome!

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.

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!