Knitting? What the...

It will be just as exciting as doing laundry! Or taking care of a newborn (this one is relative)!

The snark is strong with you :)

I love to knit. I can't wait to see my sims enjoying this awesome activity and to see how my sims teach this skill their children as well as my mom taught me and as I will teach my own daughter soon. Knitting is awesome. It brings me joy and peace. I think everyone should knit to bring joy and peace into their life :-P

Hi ArcherDK, I love your avatar! And I'll take that as a compliment. But you are right. I've not yet used the laundry pack. It simply holds no interest for me. But most packs do have some stuff that I like. But man...knitting? That really does, lol, float my boat!

Really, laundry for players who like to make their games life like makes sense. But knitting? In real life, I do it once in a couple decades, I've got all kinds of projects started, but have never finished a single thing since I was in my teens 50 years ago. See? knitting at this time is simply ridiculous. But I'm sure somebody does it and likes it. I'm just not sure if they play the sims, lol

Hi. I knit regularly. I play the Sims. I found lots of other knitting Simmers back when I had a "share your crafting" thread in Off Topic here. I just can't knit & play Sims at the same time? Would need full voice control for that...

Current projects:
- polishing off a black Aran sweater
- wrist warmers made in two diagonal layers (a good swatch project)

Knitting is a lot like the Murphy Bed; great to have--but how many households am I going to put a Murphy Bed in?

Laundry on the other hand is similar to kitchen appliances or bathroom plumbing--I'm going to have it in most households.

I can think of maybe a couple sims who will Knit. I really hope they don't give the Rocking Chair the same treatment as Lounge Chairs where you can't use your phone, tablet, or read a book on it.

The Knitting aspect is fun, but as a general Crafter/Maker - I just want my Sims to have a craft room. :smiley: The knitting gives them something to do in said craft room, though I'd have preferred sewing (another riveting animation, I'm sure...)

But this latest vote for the Build/Buy stuff is the one I was waiting for. I just hope we get enough Craft Room decor and clutter.

No, not every sim is going to have it, but I haven't used the actual laundry stuff from Laundry day yet either (because I don't actually want my sims worrying about laundry) I've used everything else, though. Maybe try to look at the Arts and Crafts pack - and the winning theme was actually Arts and Crafts with knitting as the game play, not Knitting as the Theme - in the same way? What else can you use from it that's not the gameplay element?

and maybe join the push for Happy Haunts to be resurrected as a Ghost centered game pack.

If you don't find it interesting, you're free to just not buy the pack. But the majority of the community wanted it, many of us have been asking for it for years. I'm glad to get an actual tech-free activity for my sims to do. We need way more hobbies.

@windweaver Thank you, you're too kind.
I did, in fact, mean it as a compliment :)

When it comes to knitting - it's good to have it, but that's about it.
I suppose it's better to have the option rather than not...

As for Laundry - I've played a lot with it and all I remember
are endless animations related to clean clothing.
I had to dot it out to make it bearable. Otherwise, it's exactly that - laundry.
I have enough laundry in real life, thank you very much. Again - nice to have, but I can't justify it.

Look at it this way, at least you can give your Elders something to do, that's actually productive. Some of us have been asking for this skill for a long time. Yeah, if all you do in your game is sit and watch a Sim skill, (because I'm getting the definite impression knitting will be a skill to develop) then woe is you. (To me that's grinding.) Me, I play full households and I create a story as things go along. Having Granny sitting back in her comfy chair and knitting stuff is great. Think of the presents she can hand out at Winterfest! Or, perhaps, she can add money to the family funds by selling her crafts. This will give her a sense of purpose. I also have Sims occasionally gather the dirty clothes and do the laundry. This makes for some gameplay when your active Sim is the only one on the lot during the course of a Sim day. Plus, it adds some realism. We can't have all Sims 'clean house', as that's reserved for Sims with the Neat trait. Which is too bad. Our Stay-at-Homes (Homemakers) can't even busy themselves making beds. Yeah, I realize these little details bore the beejeebies out of many of you, but I find them adding that piece of life to my game.

~No snark intended.

@GalacticGal Like I said - it's good to have an option.
You never know when it becomes useful.