You Don't Want to Mess With Knitters

For my interactive media class, we are required to propose a potential interactive media project -whether an app or a game or something else. I had been thinking about this since our first class the week before, and was starting to be a bit concerned come Thursday, as it seemed that everyone else had thought of what they were going to do already. However, for the last hour or so of the class (we went over my 30min but I don't think anyone really minded) we split into groups to discuss our projects. I was second, and announced I had no idea. While we went around the circle though, I began thinking about apps and the idea came to me to do a knitting app, so by the time we came full circle and my lecturer announced they were coming back to me, I was ready, and presented my idea for a knitting app.

There are a couple of features that I've thought of so far, and they include things such as:

• Comprehensive tracker for stitches and rows, so that you don't have to keep writing things down and crossing things out.
• Pattern storage.
• Tutorials.
• Dictionary (with pictures) of common terms/stitches.
• Barcode scanner that would check yarn compatibility against patterns for gauge. 
• Gauge calculator (I'm thinking something that would measure how tight of a knitter you are ie. my stitches are always way smaller than my mum's). 
• Needle sizer (just have a to-scale picture on the phone and compare sizes)

I downloaded a bunch of apps, and while some of them have some of these features, none of them have all of them (and some, such as the barcode scanner, aren't in any of the existing apps that I looked at). 

My lecturer seemed pretty impressed with that and said it was really real-world applicable and targeted a specific, interested audience, so I'm pretty excited! We don't have to do any programming work or design, we just have to argue our idea, so this should be pretty awesome!