A side blog for updates on the Doom Knit Project

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[duckyknitsdoom]

The Doom Knitting Project FAQ:

1. What is this project?

There was this lovely post on my dash about the possibilities to knit Doom. I'm a knitter, I have a lot of bad yarn I could use on this monstrosity, and I've got no life! (Plus I like memes). All knitting will be done off this.

2. Why random yarn?

Look my guy, yarn is expensive and I've got a LOT of yarn to burn through. I've made two crapghans (this will be the 3rd. Yes I'm making it blanket size) and I still have too much yarn that nobody in my house really wants to use.

3. You're not the first, @knittingdoom was first.

Yes they are! But my doom knit will be different, mainly because I'm using random colors and sticking to worsted weight.

4. What will you use Ko-fi donations for?

Feeding my 6 rescue idiots. Seriously, my dogs are on high end food with two on two different prescription diets. While it's not a problem for me to cover this cost, every little bit helps. It's no biggie if you don't donate. Reblogging this crazy ass project will help as well.

5. What is your main account.

@duckydotducky . I post random shit there!

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[mildlybizarrecorvid]

How many scribes working frantically would you need in order to run doom

[i-am-an-angrylittlerayofsunshine]

I wonder if the people who were knitting doom ever finished... edit:

@duckyknitsdoom this is not the doom of my experience yet it's here on my very own hellscape. I hope you are doing well.

[duckyknitsdoom]

I'm doing good! Doom is in time-out because I've been busy working on other large projects (a cross stitch tree skirt) but I'll be picking up Doom soon. I am at the bottom of page 40 :)

[duckyknitsdoom]

I'm thinking about Doom's future. About how this monstrosity will be transported and put away. So question for all of those who are watching this progress:

Should I:

Cut and restart when it's bed length to end up with multiple Doom blankets?

Knit the entire thing as one giant length, cut and sew after it's done?

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

[duckyknitsdoom]

Thank you, all of you. I know this was a minute ago but I hope you know I am ✨Dumb✨ and thought daisy chaining bags together would be the solution to knitting the entire length (unrealistic).

So with this knowledge, going forward, I'll post more polls about the individual blankets. What color you want to see, what combination you want. I have two tubs of yarn so far, and more that can be combined. Can't change the first one (where I was trying to mix cool with warm so I can kill some warm), but I would absolutely love to auction off/sell off the blankets when done.

I'll even make custom labels, showing what section the blanket is (number of blanket, which pages, duckyknitsdoom to show you were here with this shit). I won't auction/sell them off until their done so I can take a FULL picture of doom (my silly mistakes and all). Would this be something you guys would want?

Would you bid/buy a piece of doom?

yes and I want to influence future blankets

no but I want to influence future blankets

yes and I don't care how they turn out

No and I don't care how they'll turn out

I'll never bid but would buy if the blanket looks how I want

I'll never bid but would buy even if the blanket doesn't look how I want it

I just want to influence the colors but I won't have money to bid/buy

bald/how do people vote/why do you want money for this

Voting ended onSep 22, 2025

Knitting is one of those things I love to do, and I would love to keep people warm. The blankets will be Queen sized. So if I could get paid for at least the yarn and shipping, I would be so happy to send these off when the entire project is done. Let me know, and if you have any other opinions, my ask is always open!

[duckyknitsdoom]

Let me be clear because I kinda forgot to be:

Money buying/bidding on the blankets won't go to charity, it would be going into my pocket to pay for bills/food. I am disabled, and I take care of my disabled mother. I can't work if I have to take care of her, and people won't hire me because I'm brutally honest about my limitations. I would love to knit and make things and sell them for a living, but I know charging hand made prices would mean nobody buys. I would probably be selling these blankets at $100 plus shipping each, and I would be taking a loss, but I would be closer to paying for my healthcare and my car.

I know tumblr users are broke (I'm one of them, if I can throw money at an artist, I will), but realise the good cause any bids/buys will go to is me. And if that's not ok, that's fine! But my body is failing and I realized this year I can't keep my mom alive, her home clean, and work a fulltime job.

This is a fun side project. I'd love my knitting to turn into my job. Knitting is one of the only ways I feel ok, but nobody is going to spend $30-$45 on socks, ya know? $80-$100 on a sweater? We all are suffering under capitalism and I don't expect people to pay for my actual work. But $100 plus shipping on a blanket would change my life. And if I see more people willing to pay ME for that, I'll work on it. And I'll make them special and add more polls.

Otherwise Doom is just a side project I'll work on when I feel like it, and try to sell and if I can't, my family can be warm.

This isn't meant to be a guilt trip but it's. Frustrating. My situation matters and my fingers haven't given in yet. It's all I've got.

[duckyknitsdoom]

I'm thinking about Doom's future. About how this monstrosity will be transported and put away. So question for all of those who are watching this progress:

Should I:

Cut and restart when it's bed length to end up with multiple Doom blankets?

Knit the entire thing as one giant length, cut and sew after it's done?

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

[duckyknitsdoom]

Thank you, all of you. I know this was a minute ago but I hope you know I am ✨Dumb✨ and thought daisy chaining bags together would be the solution to knitting the entire length (unrealistic).

So with this knowledge, going forward, I'll post more polls about the individual blankets. What color you want to see, what combination you want. I have two tubs of yarn so far, and more that can be combined. Can't change the first one (where I was trying to mix cool with warm so I can kill some warm), but I would absolutely love to auction off/sell off the blankets when done.

I'll even make custom labels, showing what section the blanket is (number of blanket, which pages, duckyknitsdoom to show you were here with this shit). I won't auction/sell them off until their done so I can take a FULL picture of doom (my silly mistakes and all). Would this be something you guys would want?

Would you bid/buy a piece of doom?

yes and I want to influence future blankets

no but I want to influence future blankets

yes and I don't care how they turn out

No and I don't care how they'll turn out

I'll never bid but would buy if the blanket looks how I want

I'll never bid but would buy even if the blanket doesn't look how I want it

I just want to influence the colors but I won't have money to bid/buy

bald/how do people vote/why do you want money for this

Voting ended onSep 22, 2025

Knitting is one of those things I love to do, and I would love to keep people warm. The blankets will be Queen sized. So if I could get paid for at least the yarn and shipping, I would be so happy to send these off when the entire project is done. Let me know, and if you have any other opinions, my ask is always open!

[duckyknitsdoom]

I'm thinking about Doom's future. About how this monstrosity will be transported and put away. So question for all of those who are watching this progress:

Should I:

Cut and restart when it's bed length to end up with multiple Doom blankets?

Knit the entire thing as one giant length, cut and sew after it's done?

Voting ended onAug 11, 2025

[duckyknitsdoom]

Me, thinking: this is... Getting really long. I'm only on page 38. This is going to be so super huge. Maybe this is a stupid idea.

This comment on an old reddit post:

Me: OH YEAH NEVER MIND I CAN DO WHAT I WANT

[duckyknitsdoom]

Doom has gone on vacation! I keep forgetting to add warm colors in to balance out the cool colors, but in my defense I love blues, greens, and purples.

Ball 12, page 37. Mom is crocheting a bigger bag in preparation for Doom to outgrow the current bag. It now nearly covers my lap and feet.

[duckyknitsdoom]

The siren, she calls me. She says "I'm hungry, I would like more sacrifices". How can I deny her?

Page 35, ball 11. Horrendous.

[duckyknitsdoom]

Bet you thought I stopped working on this. NOPE. 10th ball, page 32. It looks HIDEOUS

[duckyknitsdoom]

8th ball started, page 27. I've officially hit 0.0149% of the pages 👍. It's also large enough that one of my dogs demands to lay on it. It has also almost outgrown the backpack I was shoving it in so I could work on it during car rides. I'll transfer it back to the big bag soon.

[duckyknitsdoom]

7th ball, top of page 22. Haven't been working on it since my car died and I left it in the back seat. Car is fixed and the blanket grows!

[duckyknitsdoom]

4th ball destroyed, 5th as well (it was only a small amount). Onto the 6th. The blanket, it hungers.

[duckyknitsdoom]

4th ball of yarn, a bag upgrade, and 17 pages in. I now have two totes dedicated to sacrifices to the Doom Blanket. I have started worshipping it, feeding it sacrifices. It hungrily consumes all around it. All hail the Doom Blanket.

[duckyknitsdoom]

The horrifying color changes begin. Ball 3 started, at the end of page 11.

[duckyknitsdoom]

Finally out of the 5 pages of repeating pattern, now into a space of randomness again. With how many 0s are in the code, it's turning into a garter blanket with random interesting bits. The amount of mistakes I've made? Too many. I'm not fixing them, it's not like I expected it to be perfect. The first ball of yarn is gone, and the second is actually not too offensive. 8 pages down!

[duckyknitsdoom]

Still going strong. Fun fact, after page 2 of the code, there's 5 straight pages of the same repeating code. 5. Pages. No. Changes. Long story short, it's a good thing I got a PDF made early in because I was taking multiple screenshots to mark where I was. Also get ready for a horrible color change after this yarn runs out. It is a crapghan after all.

[duckyknitsdoom]

Row 7 being worked on, only a few thousands to go!