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The aim of this study was to determine the motives of adult knitting hobby. Research theses and other studies about different hobby motives has been made earlier. However, the studies do not explain the leading causes of the hobby, especially knitting hobby. Motives for the initiation of a hobby, and the hobby motives may differ significantly from each other. The study examines the motives of knitting hobby, which have been started as an adult. I collected my data from the members of Facebook's Knitting Group. For the method of collecting data, I chose an open questionnaire, which I forwarded to participants on the internet. The study involved 24 adults, who had started the hobby as an adult. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. I used theory bound analysis as Tuomi and Sarajärvi (2002, p. 98-99) has presented. Data analysis starts like data-driven analysis, but at the end it takes assistance from the existing theory. In this study I used Madsens motive classification as my theory. According to Madsen’s theory the motives of new knitting hobbies were divided for functional, emotional, social and intellectual motives. Based on the results I developed three types of the initiators. The “Product at the centre” -type sees the knitting hobby as an opportunity to produce new products. “Other people as an influence” -type sees knitting as an enabler for a social contact. For “Making as a starter point” –type new knitting hobby is a possibility for a new activating activity. These fictitious examples of the initiator types can be utilized in the future. For example, craft subjects versatility can be presented to the pupils by exploiting the initiator types.