Showing posts with label ravelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ravelry. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 July 2008

Ravelry Anniversary

As the title may suggest, all links in this post are ravelry links :)

So I have been on ravelry for a year now and I don't know how I lived without it (although I imagine procrastination was less fun and ran out quicker back in those days!). I love having my stash records with the wondrous location field (so I know where to find a particular ball of yarn ... well, if I've gotten around to adding it!). I love the forums, where I lurk all over the show and get lost in all manners of topics. I love being able to see patterns at the touch of a button and seeing everyone's else's FOs and comments (I read so many projects whenever I'm going to do one of my own!! lol).

So yes, ravelry I love you ... please never leave me! :D

And I have joined up for the Ravelympics and started Team Belfast SnB (I'm also in Team Stashdown). My event is the Sweater Sprint and I will be knitting Knitty's Emerald cardigan in Sirdar Cossack (Emerald colourway). So it's my Double Emerald project. I'll be in Donegal when the Olympics start, so plenty of time for my first ever sweater project.

And to keep a bit of photographic interest around these parts, here's a bad picture of a recently finished object. Can you tell what it is yet?

Wednesday, 1 August 2007

Getting serious

So Ravelry grabbed me with both hands and has had me recording stash like a good 'un. Despite my sister's cries that I'm just inviting people to steal from me (who knows where I live huh?), I have been up to my eyes in balls, camera and laptop. So far it has been mainly acrylic going up so that I feel the momentum to document the rest (and not look like all I have is acrylic). I like acrylic, it has it's place and I use it quite a lot, but I love all types of fibres and so people need to see the full mix to get an idea of what sort of a knitter I am.

What sort of knitter am I? Eclectic I think. I very often knit things and not use them, which leads me to believe that I am either all about the process or that I should choose my projects more carefully in future. But hey, it led me to think, so that's a good thing right?

I've been trying to photograph my current wips as well and this is no mean feat, as they are spread to the far corners of the known universe my house and are often dropped from my cognitive understanding. I cast that on? When? No you must be mistaken.

Anyway, photos at hand, a post is long overdue!

The wip that is getting most attention at the moment is a modified play cube from Nursery Knits by Zoe Mellor. It's going to become a storage cube for more stash, I think, if it works when it's done. This is two of the six squares this afternoon, but after a jaunt to the cinema to see Transformers I now have nearly 3 squares - joyous! (And a great film)



Not so joyous however is the fact that I should not be knitting that at all, I should be knitting this:



That is the increase section (almost completed) of my mother's clap, which is supposed to be finished for her birthday .... on Saturday. Ahem, yes, perhaps needs some attention there. But you see my entire cotton stash appears to have gone missing, so I have a reason for holding off thus far ... perhaps my sister was right about documenting my stash ... except it went missing before I got on Ravelry .....

Mind you considering the state of my mother's Christmas present, I really shouldn't be surprised by my lack of clapotis.



Yes, that is the VD, still knitting completed, still not sewn up or lined ..... *sigh* My poor mother, thankfully I buy her presents too!

And to confound all this knitting what I shouldn't be, I cast on another sock yesterday:



This is a plain round and round sock with Opal Neon yarn and 2.5mm Addi's. You see the new Addi's came, so I could finally use some Opal and I had ripped out a plain sock that had gone a bit funny interesting, tension-wise, in the middle of the foot. So you see, how could I resist?

The Widdershins I have cast on and then abandoned because of cabling on itty bitty needle difficulties have nothing to do with it, I tell ya!



Nothing!

Thursday, 26 July 2007

Ravelry

I'm in. I may be some time.

Friday, 20 July 2007

A close call ....

Thank goodness for that! I had been telling a friend that I was getting panicky about my Ravelry invite, that perhaps I hadn't signed up right (I know, you type in your e-mail address and click a button - what can go wrong? I have paranoia issues, what can I say? So so I signed up with a different email address of mine ... or so I thought .....

Ciara kindly told me that you can now check your place in the queue, so i hopped over and typed in my blog email address.

Sorry that email address is not on our signup list

I told you something can go wrong! When I'm involved, something can always go wrong!

so I typed in the back up email address I used the second time (my personal email) and it says July 10th 2007. No I scream (internally, didn't want to scare the pets), I had signed up a whole month before that!!!! I'd signed up with the same email address twice!

After a few moments of heavy breathing and knots twisting in my stomach, I realise that although the date is the second date, my place in the queue is as it should be. There are 541 people before me in the queue. That can't take long now can it?

PS If this situations causes internal screaming, heavy breathing and cold sweats, you know the knitting addiction has become a problem