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!

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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…

    • gina@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I hoped someone would do something like this with the lemmy lemming!

    • weirdsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This little lemming, with its scarf and its button nose, makes me smile every time a knitting post appears in my timeline. Thank you!

  • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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 😅

    collage of knitting photos

    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 😞

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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:

      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.

    • kurobita@feddit.clEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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 :)

      • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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!

    • Evia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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