knittit. Warm, fuzzy, sometimes tangled. Whether you've been knitting for 5 minutes or 5 decades, you're welcome here! Please read the rules and abide by them, so we can make the sub a great experience for everyone. Beginners, check out the weekly megathread Helping Beginners – Ask a Knitter where you can ask any questions you have without the need to make a separate post. It's pinned at the top of the subreddit homepage. Founded 2008 · 619.1K members
613.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached
16.1K upvotes, which works out to
26 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Gallery 56%Image 30%Text 8%Question 6%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Finished Object 78Work in Progress 7De$igner FO (commercial gain) 4Rave (like a rant, but in a good way) 3In the news 3Discussion 2Designer FO 1Rant 1Weekend Yarn Submission 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/knitting?
r/knitting ("knittit") describes itself this way: Warm, fuzzy, sometimes tangled. Whether you've been knitting for 5 minutes or 5 decades, you're welcome here! Please read the rules and abide by them, so we can make the sub a great experience for everyone. Beginners, check out the weekly megathread Helping Beginners – Ask a Knitter where you can ask any questions you have without the need to make a separate post. It's pinned at the top of the subreddit homepage. It was founded in 2008 and has 619.1K members.
How many members does r/knitting have?
r/knitting has about 613.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 253 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.1K upvotes, which is 26 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/knitting?
"I was unknowingly working on a 35 foot long blanket for years." reached 16.1K upvotes and 650 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/knitting.
What subreddits are similar to r/knitting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop.
What kind of posts do best on r/knitting?
Of the posts we hold, 56% are gallery posts and 30% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/knitting?
Across 253 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 19:00 UTC (9.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 14:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/knitting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/knitting has 7.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/knitting, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.