KnitMap is here!
After much hard work (mostly on Matt’s part), and much whining (mostly on my part) KnitMap is ready for its debut beta launch. If you are so excited and just can wait, click here to find yarn stores right now!
What is KnitMap?
KnitMap is a Yarn Store finder. It’s a site that catalogues and maps the locations of retail shops that sell yarn, knitting supplies and knitting accessories. You can search to find these locations in the US, Canada, UK and most of Europe. Once you’ve found a shop, you can rate it’s attributes, leave comments, upload photos, and add it to your Favorites.
What you can do to help!
We need users to test the site, add stores, leave comments, and especially add store details. We are looking for store hours, phone numbers, if they have wifi, if they carry other crafts, etc. No one knows their local yarn store like a local! While I would like nothing more than to travel the world entering store details and reviews, I just can’t get to them all!
What’s in it for you?
Your efforts will be rewarded with knowledge that you contributed to making this site a useful and valuable tool for the knitting community! Okay, okay…there will be prizes too! We are going to be holding contests for things like:
- Most stores added; and
- Most updates (hours, comments, photos, etc.) added.
Details will be appearing shortly on the KnitMap home page. Rest assured that the prizes will be of the knitterly variety!
What are you waiting for? Go check out KnitMap!
Filed under: KnitMap on September 2nd, 2007
This is awesome. Someone just showed me this after I posted about my yarn crawl!!! Thanks for creating this for us! An idea for you…you need to create a button that we can add to our blogs to point people over here. I’m going to post about knitmaps on my blog later today.
again…THANKS!!!!