The Yearly Stats

I love it each year when Ravelry puts out the stats of what goes on on Ravelry.  It is like a little sample of all the knitters in the world and where we are and what we love to do.  Iceland tops the knitting each year, usually by a pretty decent margin.  Canada is usually in the top 4 or 5.  We are usually below Icleand, Finland and Norway by a significant margin, but it is nice to see us up there. 

Many people I know do not go into Ravelry on the homepage but use a link to their personal notebook instead and miss this interesting tidbit about the thing so many of us love to do.  So here you go.  The nifty stuff from  The Ravelry Home Page

•  Iceland: 678 projects per 100,000 people
•  Norway: 524 projects per 100,000 people
•  Finland: 491 projects per 100,000 people
•  Canada: 273 projects per 100,000 people
•  Sweden: 266 projects per 100,000 people
•  Denmark: 222 projects per 100,000 people

and this

• added 87,106 patterns to the Ravelry database, over 70,000  of which were published in 2022. This brings the total number of patterns in our database to nearly 1.2 million!
• made over 1.3 million projects (approximately 1.1 million knitting, 225k crochet, and 8k weaving)
• knit 328.8 million yards / 300.7 million meters of yarn
• crocheted 56.6 million yards / 51.8 million meters of yarn
• wove 2.2 million yards / 2 million meters of yarn
• added 32.8 million patterns and 3 million projects to favorites
• spun 1040 kg of fiber (well over a ton!)
• added 8 million photos throughout pattern, yarn, project, and stash pages
• 5,791 patterns were featured in the Hot Right Now top 20 list, and 3,486 designers appeared in debut patterns spotlight. You can find both of those lists on our main Patterns page.

The really mind blowing thing is that Ravelry is only a small chunk of the people who regularly knit. Iceland knits.  I love that about a country.