I’d be wary of getting too excited over the “non-techie” nature of the subject matter and what that might mean though: knitting and crocheting have become the young urban hipster hobbies of choice for the past couple of years: it looks like the vast majority of their users are in their 20s and 30s, with average age 37 and median age 35 (I still like to think of this as “my age group”, although I’m actually thirty-twelve – my point being that this is probably a highly technophile bunch of craftspeople – and my experience with my own friends who are into this support the idea). Also the vast majority on Unraveled only started knitting and crocheting seriously in the past couple of years since it became trendy. See: http://blog.ravelry.com/2008/01/17/who-are-ravelrys-users/

However. There *are * still a goodly number of older knitters/crocheters, including a small number well into their seventies, so hurray! I’d really like to see some interviews with *those* users about their experience of the system.

Neat link though, Rowin, thanks so much for sharing this