Ok so last night the very valid point was raised that our banner (and icon) are essentially the first stock image results for a search on “knitting”. Shoutout to @kurobita@feddit.cl for picking up on that.
It hardly represents our budding little community of weird creatives, though, does it?!
My first thought was actually to make this a more communal project. Perhaps a collage of some of the top-voted projects that have been posted here so far. That way future joiners would be greeted with the work of essentially our founders, which I think would be nice.
But at least two of you have an insatiable lust for competition and seemed excited for a contest, so far be it from me to take that away from you 😉
Here’s the plan:
- Closing date will be a week from now, Thursday 27th July at 19:30 UK time.
- My entry will be a collage as described above, so if you actually like that idea and want it to be official you can just sit tight (and maybe post some cool projects this week that you think should be in it).
- I won’t be offended if something else wins though, I just really like making collages.
- The only mobile app I’ve found that even shows banners is Jerboa and I’ve no idea what size that is, but on web the full-size banner is shown at 968x240px and in the sidebar it’s shown at 276x104px. Lemmyverse has them at 299x125px.
- Entries / suggestions / weird AI art of lemmings with knitting needles for a new community icon also welcome, I have no bright ideas there as of yet.
Get any entries in as replies to this post, and you never know, maybe by this time next week some Lemmy contributor will have added polls!
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I drew a few icons today at work (lol), my favorite is the lemming with scarf, but I’ll work some more and refine them during the weekend https://imgur.com/a/4TMv6zh
I’m open to suggestions too.
Oh my god and his little button nose, these are amazing! Excellent use of your work time tbh 😄
I’ve not even started on anything yet because it’s 24 hours of cross stitch weekend so you know, priorities…
I hoped someone would do something like this with the lemmy lemming!
This little lemming, with its scarf and its button nose, makes me smile every time a knitting post appears in my timeline. Thank you!
aww I’m glad you like it <3
I love the scarf one most! They’re all really adorable though.
Ok here’s my attempt at a photo collage for the banner ft. some popular posted items. Tried to fit more in at first but some of the photos were too small and also with the size this thing gets displayed at, it gets a bit unscannable with more. Looks a bit like I gave my purple top pride of place, but actually that’s the corner that gets totally covered up with icon in the sidebar view 😅
The only problem is it gets displayed in two completely different aspect ratios. So I’ve mocked up what the full-size version would look like (along with the adorable scarfed lemming icon by @kurobita@feddit.cl which is definitely winning barring any last-minute entries) and as you can see I’ll need to play with the placement a bit given how things get chopped off.
(direct image link in case that’s too small to see what I’m talking about)
If there are no other entries I’ll operate on the assumption that people are ok with me getting permission from the photo owners and going ahead with something along these lines. It might need to wait until the weekend now though as I’m struggling my way through a migraine today and can barely think straight, please bear with 😞
Right I am recovered from migraine and doing what I planned to do in the first place but then apparently just forgot due to feeling sorry for myself. Actually credit the people involved!
From top left > bottom right, projects are:
- Scrappy rainbow sweater by @Treatyoself@lemmy.world
- First hat & mittens set by @kurobita@feddit.cl (sorry to ping you again, but didn’t want you feeling left out!)
- Owl sweater by @sayabulegila@lemmy.world
- Rainbow dropped stitch scarf by @ickplant@lemmy.world
- Kala Tee by yours truly
- Crazy Over You socks by @HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
- Gansey sweater by @Evia@lemmy.world
- Folklore cat sweater by @halfpastgin@feddit.uk
If any of you would prefer not to be in the banner please let me know! Also a couple of them were taken in very orange light so I just tweaked things slightly to make them all match a bit better, hope that’s ok.
Thank you for including me and for putting all this work into the banner. You rock!
Wow that’s pretty cool! I’m honored to be included!
Thank you for including me! This is an awesome idea! Just now saw this because of the tag :)
Gotta have the owls in there, it’s such a famous pattern! 😄
Oh this is awesome, I love it! Thank you for featuring my project, I certainly give you permission to use the picture.
Let me know if you need the lemming in svg format :)
Yeah please if you have it handy. I am feeling a bit better today but still not great so anything involving thinking or staring hard at the screen is still out in favour of lounging around on the couch and being brought food. Hopefully I’ll be sorted by tomorrow and will get the banner tested and made official!
It looks good! I like that there’s a range of different types of FOs
It’s also really nice for my work to have been included in it, so thank you
