Being able to knit clothing, toys, and household items is obviously a must, but what else are you looking for with knitting in The Sims 4? Gift giving? Profitable Crafting? Funny failures?
I want to say all three! :( One of my favorite things to do with a starting out Sim is starting them out learning a skill that is profitable. Because, I like that it's more challenging and difficult to save money up to expand the house, to buy new, more quality furniture and also to buy objects that will give them activities to do with friends and family. So, having another Skill that allows my Sim to make money is great! But also to be able to have my grandparent Sims knit objects/clothing for their grand-kids would be super cute! They could be able to give them these gifts for their birthday or during Winter fest/Christmas.
What kind of interactive knitting gameplay objects would you like to see?
Yarn basket? Rocking chair? Craft Table?
Definitely would like to see a rocking chair for the elderly to use, or other Sims. Pregnant Sims should be able to use this so that they could knit little booties (socks) for their newborns! :) And yes, please, to a crafting table! I think this table could include the dyes that @Simmer_Will mentioned as well as other things that could make different kinds of yarns to craft stuff. But I also think having the option to just knit with hand and needle/yarn is nice, too. The crafting table could just be to gather material to be able to make new yarns for Sims to use to knit with, or if they need to make something much bigger than say a scarf, or socks, etc.
If we could get different dyes for colored yarn, please don't make it super easy to obtain. I'd like some rarity colors that we'd have to "find", in the worlds, or something like that.. or getting our knitting Skill up and needing certain flowers, etc in order to create the colors at the crafting table. Then as Simmer_Will said, being able to just have that yarn that we've made from the crafting table into our SIms inventories, we could then knit where-ever we wanted (ie: a rocking chair, or at a chair/table, etc).
We've seen "teaching other Sims to knit" come up a lot. How do you imagine this would work? Are you familiar with our existing "Mentoring" system that let's Sims with high skill levels teach other Sims those skills?
I'm not sure exactly how it would work, but I would like to see mom's/dad's or grandparents that knit be able to teach their kids, yes, CHILD Sims to knit. They could knit only a few things at first, though.. like small toys, or a scarf and then this is where the funny failures could come into play because some kids or new knitters wouldn't know how to do it, yet as they're still learning and this is where they could have some mess-ups and maybe get wrapped in the yarn, or get their fingers knotted in yarn, lol, or something like that. :)
I'm sure you guys will come up with a better idea for the failures, I still love the animations when my Sim working at the flower arranging table and is just snipping away at the flower and accidentally cuts the flower off, leaving only the Stem, and her eyes get big, and she covers her mouth and has to toss the stem away! Lol. ♥
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