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?
Yes to all listed. Them being available for donating and such too. Theft of yarn by sneaky animals and chasing dropped balls of yarn that roll across the floor. Speaking of sneaky animals, it'd be great if balls of yarn could be used as a cat toy as well.
I learned to knit and crochet by making hats, blankets, and sweaters as a child, while sitting in rocking chairs on our front porch, and my grandmother showing me how she does each row. Then laughing when the sweater ends up with one sleeve twice as long as the other. And her scolding our cat while it tries to steal her yarn ball for the 8000th time that day. We would donate items we made throughout the month (not including stretch arm sweaters) to churches and hospitals for new mothers.
What kind of interactive knitting gameplay objects would you like to see?
Yarn basket? Rocking chair? Craft Table? Something else?
Yes. Yes. Yes, but please don't tie knitting to a craft table. Being able to knit anywhere is what makes it a great hobby. Grab a bag of your yarn and you're good.
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?
Yes, mentoring system is great, but most of the time when teaching someone needlework type skills, its done when the teacher is also doing the project and its a step-by-step instructional video live. Its not someone standing there talking to you. (Like mentoring does)
Knit some together, student looks towards teacher's project, looks back at theirs, rips out a line, glances back, teacher points and tells where they went wrong, they redo the line. Teacher does some more to show how-to. That sort of thing.
EA Staff (Retired)
