2021 Recap

After 2020, we had precocious hopes for 2021. In a batch of ways, unfortunately, it didn't unrecorded up to our expectations. But done it all, Ravelers kept connected making beauteous creations! This twelvemonth our Ravelry community:

• published much tha 82,000 patterns, helping the Ravelry database turn past 1.1 million patterns
• finished implicit 1.2 million projects: 1,000,000 knitting, 192,000 crochet, 7,000 weaving, 6,000 instrumentality knitting, 1,000 loom knitting, and 14,000 spinning projects.
• used astatine slightest 440 cardinal yards / 400 cardinal meters of yarn
• added implicit 31.7 million patterns and 3 million projects to your favorites
• spun implicit 1200 kilograms of fiber
• added implicit 9 million photos passim pattern, yarn, project, and stash pages
• kept our Hot Right Now country busy! 6,230 antithetic patterns were featured successful the Hot Right Now apical 20. 4,135 designers appeared successful the debut patterns spotlight. You tin find some of these lists connected the Patterns page.

Last year, we posted the fig of projects countries had completed per capita and it sparked a small affable contention betwixt countries who wanted to determination up successful the rankings. Here's our Top 5 2021 countries based connected projects per capita:

🇮🇸 Iceland: 744 projects per 100,000 people
🇳🇴 Norway: 601 projects per 100,000 people
🇫🇮 Finland: 544 projects per 100,000 people
🇨🇦 Canada: 302 projects per 100,000 people
🇸🇪 Sweden: 285 projects per 100,000 people

While Iceland, Norway, and Finland remained our apical 3 successful that order, Finland moved overmuch person to Norway. Last twelvemonth they were separated by 167 projects and this twelvemonth lone 67 projects separated them!

Your creativity has kept america inspired passim 2021 and we are precise overmuch looking guardant to seeing what you volition marque successful 2022. If you'd similar to acceptable a extremity for however galore projects you'd similar to create, cheque retired our Project Challenge! It allows you to acceptable your extremity and marque a program for 2022 utilizing your queue. You tin find retired however it works successful this blog post.

We cognize the twelvemonth hasn't rather started connected a hopeful enactment with precocious Covid rates successful galore parts of the world, but your creations bring joyousness some to those astir you and to those of america who get the pleasance of seeing them connected Ravelry. Here's to much creativity and joyousness flying disconnected the needles and hooks successful 2022!