Just a note from one of your friendly mods... :)

[closetedfangirl]

Hi everyone!

Some of you already have been here for a bit and posting, but I thought that now with Open Beta, we probably would start seeing a greater influx of members. (Knitters are going to eventually take over the world, after all, y/y?) Anyway, that being said...if you're new here, welcome! :) And if you've been here all along, thanks for sticking around :) I think everyone is slowly getting their bearings around the awesomeness that is DW.

So, just a few things...

1. First and foremost, be kind to each other. I'll be honest and say that I've written this mostly as a formality and am not really worried about there being any issues. I do have this preconceived notion of knitters being awesome people and all... (However, damned_colonial  and I will play the big bad mods if we have to. We just don't want to. Please don't make us.)
2. Photos are welcome -- and encouraged! To be considerate of everyone's reading pages though, please put them under a cut.
3. Please use tags! I think the best way of doing this is by project type...so if you're posting about your socks currently on the needles, use "socks". Pretty self-explanatory. Then, if later on down the road, someone else wants to knit up a pair of fabulous socks...or mittens...or a sweater, they can easily find them all as they decide on what pattern they might want to knit up :)

I think that about does it. If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or by private message :)

Again, welcome, and HAPPY KNITTING!! :)

Comments

[heavenlyevil]

Could the cut/tagging rules be put on the community info page? I'm very much an 'out of sight, out of mind' type and will most likely forget to do it otherwise.

This is the first community I looked for when I got my invite code. Us knitters need our yarn pr0n, after all. :p

[closetedfangirl]

Definitely. It was on my agenda to get the info page all updated too :)

Isn't that the freaking truth. Yarn = <3

[damned_colonial]

FYI, I've just set the comm so that any member can make new tags. We might need to clean up/lock down later, but for now, probably best to let any member create tags as they need them.

[closetedfangirl]

Sounds excellent :)

[blackdove]

I'm going to need to do some major refreshing of my cut skills... yikes!

[libelula]

Hi there! I just had a quick question...

I was attempting to make a post a week or so ago, but I found that I didn't have posting access. The community says "all members" can post, yet I don't seem to have the allowance. =O

[not_so_far_to_fall]

Hullo! I'm new to the community (to Dreamwidth in general, actually, hence the no-posts-in-the-journal, only-one-icon thing; I promise I'm not a sockpuppet/troll/whatever!) and didn't see any posts like this, so I just wanted to check and see if it might be alright:

Every year the Special Olympics needs a huge number of scarves donated, and I thought it might be a nice suggestion of a project for anyone not invested in anything right now and looking for something to do, yarn-wise. And I figure a lot of people haven't heard about it, because the only reason I know about it is my housemate's younger siblings participate in the games.

Anyway. Long comment is long. Here is the link to the project details (you know, for not-sockpuppety authenticity), and the tl;dr version is: Are posts about things like this okay/would it be alright if I made a post about it in the next couple of days? I can include pictures of/the pattern for the scarf I'm making for it, if that's necessary. :)

[not_so_far_to_fall]

Actually, I just stumbled across the "charity" tag. Duh, self.

(I am just nervous about being the new person and making a horrible impression on my first go. Kindly ignore me as hard as you can.)