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 ...

Ravelry’s ban on Trump support has proven divisive, ... Payne told Vox that while she sells her patterns on Ravelry, she’s never considered it to be a particularly safe space.

Her cowl pattern got flagged for hate speech, and on June 21, Deplorable Knitter was banned from Ravelry. She was not alone. On June 23, the site banned “support of Donald Trump and his ...

The project began on December 13 of last year, when a Ravelry user, JohannaB, suggested to Shane that her neural net could be taught to write knitting patterns.