Slower knitting: longer to complete projects

Nifty knitting is one of my favourite packs available on The Sims; and playing historical, means it's an integral hobby for sims to improve their Fun bars.

Unfortunately, while playing a lot with the pack, I found that the projects were completed very quickly, and it seemed very unrealistic - it annoyed me a lot!

So, it's another one of the things I was annoyed with and decided I'd try fixing!

After learning about XML, and downloading tools to work the coding - I have made this mod.

Originally, it would take 100-150 sim minutes to complete a standard project, and 200 for a large project. Interestingly, in my search for a mod to extend this time, I found only one to drastically reduce it - as quick as 10 sim minutes!!!

After playing around with time, I settled on 4x the original speed - though, I'm interested to know how others feel about this time.

This mod:
increases the time spent knitting a normal project from 100 sim minutes, to 400
increases the time spent knitting a large project from 200 sim minutes, to 800

In conjunction with this mod, I recommend:

Using MC Command Centre to make skills more difficult, which will slow progress of level
Downloading JaneSimsten's functional spinning wheel - you can then use this to spin wool from your animals, to make yarn for knitting, or thread for cross-stitch

This mod requires the "Nifty Knitting" Stuff Pack

I have edited the following coding:
knitting_CraftingPhase.xml
knitting_CraftingPhase_BigProject.xml
So anything else that modifies these may cause a conflict.

I would like to thank JaneSimsten for helping me work out how to ensure the status circle thing in the queue, matches the length of time to knit the project!!