The Facebook of knitting and crocheting was a rare online haven. Then came the Pussyhat, Deplorable Knitter, and more.
It is hard to quantify how many people have picked up the craft since the coronavirus pandemic began, but in 2020 Ravelry had its biggest year of pattern sales. Last September, Michelle Obama told Rachael Ray, “Hold on, girl. Over the course of this quarantine, I have knitted a blanket, five scarves, three halter tops, a couple of hats for Barack, and I just finished my first pair of mittens for Malia. . . . I’m a knitter.
A couple of months later, I quit my day job to write full time, and a couple of months after that the pandemic struck. With the extra free time and an obligation to stay home, I spent many hours a day learning new techniques and browsing online for rare wool blends. Knitting allowed me the illusion that at leastwas progressing. It also recalibrated my aesthetic world view. I found that the most fun things to knit were the sorts of garments I would never have dreamed of buying from a store.
It seemed inconceivable that a community like Ravelry could be divisive. Knitting was a way to escape the dynamics that caused people to fight incessantly online, and its adherents are uniquely bound by the ethics inherent in the craft. I can think of no other activity that punishes cheating or impatience so brutally, as evidenced by my thousands of yards of tangled knots or hours spent tearing out projects after I’d taken shortcuts.
A user called Deplorable Knitter published a hat pattern whose stitching read “Build the Wall.” The pattern became a flash point on the site. “When she first started coming out with patterns, conversations became vitriolic,” Markus said. The site had long forbidden any patterns that included Confederate flags, and-related content was taking on a similar flavor. Some left-leaning Ravelry users said that they felt unsafe on the site.
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