Ravelry, an online knitting community with 8 million members, announced on Sunday that it is banning all pro-Trump projects, patterns and forum talk from the site, saying, "Support of the Trump ...

“I wrote the pattern to knit a pair for myself, sort of as a joke, but decided to post it as I love the community that Ravelry has created for sharing ideas and excitement about knitting ...

Ravelry, a wildly popular social media site for knitters and crocheters, is taking a stand against white supremacy, which includes supporters of Donald Trump and the Trump administration. In an ...

The shop primarily offers patterns for knitted hats and cowls with Trump support and anti-abortion messages, and these reviews frequently reference the Ravelry ban: “Thank you from this ...

When knitting site Ravelry banned all pro-Trump content it caused a schism in the community—but it also shone a spotlight on how women are using niche sites to politicize.

In practice, knitting patterns contain a lot of abbreviations like k and p, for knit and purl (the two standard types of stitches), st for stitches, yo for yarn over, or sl1 for “slip one stitch ...

A popular knitting social media website has banned support for President Donald Trump on its platform, accusing his administration of propagating “open white supremacy.” Ravelry, a community ...

Ravelry invited users to flag knitting or crochet patterns if they constitute support for Mr Trump or his administration. The statement warned that Trump supporters could be permanently banned ...

Ravelry was founded in 2007 by Jessica and Casey Forbes in a "tiny apartment in Boston," a post on the site's Instagram states. A LinkedIn page for the company says it has 8.3 million registered ...

Ravelry, an online community of eight million knitting enthusiasts, is coming apart at the seams over a ban on pro-Trump content, which the site has labelled “white supremacist.” ...