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Q1: Crosspack! Sorry, no ideas here.
Q2: If some “Crochet-Like” objects became craftable through Knitting, how would you personally feel? Love it!
Q3: There’s a cool crafty desk floating around in concept art that you guys may have seen (49 - 52 in the object vote). What would knitting at one of these desks mean to you, if anything? Asking around the office, nobody knits at a desk, but I’m curious if anyone would find value if the new crafting desk tied in with knitting somehow. I sit at a desk and watch movies on my laptop computer all the time. It's also helpful because I keep my patterns on the computer, and I can keep them open in different tabs and go back and forth between the movie and the pattern easily.
Q4: I’d like Knitting to actually take some time to craft, something Sims can save for later and come back to. In your experience, how long have some of your knitting projects taken? LOL. Years, sometimes. I start things, put them down, come back to them. Before I retired, I often didn't have a lot of time to work on stuff, so I would make little progress during the week. Afghans take longer than hats and scarves, obviously. And I rarely have just one project going. (One WIP -- Work in Progress). Starting a new project is always way more fun than finishing a dozen old ones. There is a joke in the knitting/crocheting community about starting a new project when you are 95% complete on an old one.
Q5: If your Sim wanted to knit something, but they couldn't find a place to sit, would you be okay with them standing up and knitting? Asking for a friend... I've seen it done. I've seen knitters knitting while walking, so they could get their knitting in at the same time as their daily aerobic stroll. Me, I'm too lazy for that. Maybe it should be associated with personality type?
Q6: Along with the Mentor interaction, I’d like to include a proper “Teach to Knit” interaction. I’d love to have that moment where the Knitting Master granny teaches their grandchild how to knit. For those of you who experienced similar things, what was that experience like for you? I’m curious what people think this should look like - both animation and story wise. I was 5 when my grandmother taught me to knit. She initially did the cast on for me, then held my hands to show me how to do the stitches. After a few, she'd let go and watch. We did practice swatches -- just rectangles -- at first. As I got the hang of the knit stitch, she showed me how to do the purl stitch, but by doing it on her needles. Then we'd knit together, me on mine and her on hers. I'm sure I looked at my work with great concentration and bit my tongue a little. And got frustrated. But my grandma was always gentle and calm. My own granddaughter is 4 now. I look forward to trying to teach her, if she's interested, in about a year.
Q7: I’d like to have some Etsy store-like gameplay, as well as donation gameplay with Knitting. For those of you who may have gone down those paths in real life, what were some interesting takeaways or stories you’d like to see represented? No experience here
Q8: Lets say a Sim is wearing an awful, itchy sweater that they’re wearing only because somebody gifted it for them. What kind of things would you like to see happen to them? Wear it for Grandma, then try not to get caught scratching and wincing behind her back.
Q9: I need your best Knitting puns. Feed them to me. Undoing knitting stitch by stitch is called "tinking" -- tink = knit spelled backwards. If you have to pull out large sections of work ("rip" it out), it's called "frogging" or "visiting the frog pond" (rip-it, rip-it).
Q10: This is my biggest question, so I saved it for last. Should the “Teach to Knit” interaction mentioned above be autonomous? No. In real life it has to be consensual, and sometimes people do say no, especially children. It should definitely be user-directed.
Thank you for asking all this stuff. I'm finding this so exciting! My two favorite things put together, knitting and Sims!
Q2: If some “Crochet-Like” objects became craftable through Knitting, how would you personally feel? Love it!
Q3: There’s a cool crafty desk floating around in concept art that you guys may have seen (49 - 52 in the object vote). What would knitting at one of these desks mean to you, if anything? Asking around the office, nobody knits at a desk, but I’m curious if anyone would find value if the new crafting desk tied in with knitting somehow. I sit at a desk and watch movies on my laptop computer all the time. It's also helpful because I keep my patterns on the computer, and I can keep them open in different tabs and go back and forth between the movie and the pattern easily.
Q4: I’d like Knitting to actually take some time to craft, something Sims can save for later and come back to. In your experience, how long have some of your knitting projects taken? LOL. Years, sometimes. I start things, put them down, come back to them. Before I retired, I often didn't have a lot of time to work on stuff, so I would make little progress during the week. Afghans take longer than hats and scarves, obviously. And I rarely have just one project going. (One WIP -- Work in Progress). Starting a new project is always way more fun than finishing a dozen old ones. There is a joke in the knitting/crocheting community about starting a new project when you are 95% complete on an old one.
Q5: If your Sim wanted to knit something, but they couldn't find a place to sit, would you be okay with them standing up and knitting? Asking for a friend... I've seen it done. I've seen knitters knitting while walking, so they could get their knitting in at the same time as their daily aerobic stroll. Me, I'm too lazy for that. Maybe it should be associated with personality type?
Q6: Along with the Mentor interaction, I’d like to include a proper “Teach to Knit” interaction. I’d love to have that moment where the Knitting Master granny teaches their grandchild how to knit. For those of you who experienced similar things, what was that experience like for you? I’m curious what people think this should look like - both animation and story wise. I was 5 when my grandmother taught me to knit. She initially did the cast on for me, then held my hands to show me how to do the stitches. After a few, she'd let go and watch. We did practice swatches -- just rectangles -- at first. As I got the hang of the knit stitch, she showed me how to do the purl stitch, but by doing it on her needles. Then we'd knit together, me on mine and her on hers. I'm sure I looked at my work with great concentration and bit my tongue a little. And got frustrated. But my grandma was always gentle and calm. My own granddaughter is 4 now. I look forward to trying to teach her, if she's interested, in about a year.
Q7: I’d like to have some Etsy store-like gameplay, as well as donation gameplay with Knitting. For those of you who may have gone down those paths in real life, what were some interesting takeaways or stories you’d like to see represented? No experience here
Q8: Lets say a Sim is wearing an awful, itchy sweater that they’re wearing only because somebody gifted it for them. What kind of things would you like to see happen to them? Wear it for Grandma, then try not to get caught scratching and wincing behind her back.
Q9: I need your best Knitting puns. Feed them to me. Undoing knitting stitch by stitch is called "tinking" -- tink = knit spelled backwards. If you have to pull out large sections of work ("rip" it out), it's called "frogging" or "visiting the frog pond" (rip-it, rip-it).
Q10: This is my biggest question, so I saved it for last. Should the “Teach to Knit” interaction mentioned above be autonomous? No. In real life it has to be consensual, and sometimes people do say no, especially children. It should definitely be user-directed.
Thank you for asking all this stuff. I'm finding this so exciting! My two favorite things put together, knitting and Sims!
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