ravelling and tinkering
I’m so pleased that I finally get to tell you about this. It’s sort of hard to explain, but basically it’s a site that allows you to organise and share your knitting things - like your projects, and your stash and needles and patterns and stuff. You can find new designs, and see who else has made ones you’re interested in, or if you’re a designer share your own designs. It’s also like all these social networking sites but especially for knitters (and crocheters and yarn makers). It rocks. At the moment though the creators are working really hard to make sure they can cope with it growing so to try and keep control of that you have to sign up for an invite before you can join. Shouldn’t take too long to get that though and totally worth the wait. I have a couple of invites I can send out, and can’t possibly pick just 2 people so if you’re desperate to check this out leave a comment and I’ll send them to the first people who ask. Gone!
Ravelry is such a good word, although mostly I’ve been unravelling lately. Thought you might like to see my progress on the reading hoodie. It would have been further along but last night I spent an hour unravelling the tangled yarn (I swear it came out of the ball like that). Then today I noticed something was wrong, back where I started last night. Maybe tonight it will actually get bigger!
Couldn’t find any information on how to do the Japanese short rows if each of the pick up rows is also a short row. That’s a crappy description but if you’ve ever made socks with a short row heel I’m sure you know what I mean. Anyway I kind of tinkered around with different methods but I like how it’s turning out. This picture is far more accurate colourwise.
It’s been so long since I last changed anything on this site that I’d forgotten how addictive tinkering with it is. I like the little list of my designs in the sidebar and thought it might be a good idea to give myself a bit of a reminder to finish the patterns for the ‘coming soon’ ones, hopefully I won’t ignore them if I keep seeing them. We’ll see if that works.
Posted: May 3rd, 2007 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 18
Comments
Comment from Toni
Time: May 3, 2007, 9:48 pm
Ooooh, I’d like an invite!
Comment from chloe
Time: May 3, 2007, 9:49 pm
i’d love an invite, miss!
Comment from liz
Time: May 3, 2007, 9:50 pm
poo, I missed the cut by one minute! never mind… Hood looks fantastic though
Comment from frecklegirl jess
Time: May 3, 2007, 10:00 pm
So happy you are enjoying the site so far. Great write-up… appreciate it so much! :)
That japanese short row technique makes my head spin- maybe post a new thread in the technique section of the Discuss (forum) section in Ravelry? People seem to be getting some good help in there already.
Not to plug my site again- sheesh! ;)
Comment from Miriam
Time: May 3, 2007, 10:12 pm
Hey…. can you tell me more about the designer benefits of ravelry? Do you just post a bit about your pattern and link back to your site to purchase or what?
Comment from Kelly Sue
Time: May 4, 2007, 2:40 am
Miriam, I have an extra invite if you’d like to check it out for yourself.
Drop me a line at K e l l y s u e [at] m a c [dot] c o m . (Remove spaces, obviously.)
Comment from mary
Time: May 4, 2007, 4:56 am
oh well, I guess your invites are used up already but if anyone else has an extra one please tell me!
mary.victoria[at]yahoo[dot]com
Comment from Eve
Time: May 4, 2007, 5:34 am
As far as I can tell, organize-your-stash-and-patterns websites don’t last too long before people get bored of them, and the knitting community (although big) is still too small to support anything Web 2.0. The cross-section of knitters and geeks is even smaller. I’ve seen quite a few user-submitted pattern and stash-organizing databases that just sit there without being used; I had plans to do something myself, but decided against it for that reason. Unless this thing is outrageously JavaScripted out the yinyang, I don’t see it catching on.
Comment from ?hltje
Time: May 4, 2007, 6:46 am
I like the new look of your site.
Comment from EGJ
Time: May 4, 2007, 11:11 am
I agree - the pictures of your designs to the right looks very neat. And ravelry sounds great, definitely a new bookmark.
Comment from Alice from france
Time: May 4, 2007, 4:13 pm
I like the way you add your latest pattern on the right, it’s a good idea.
And, wow, i’m on the knees when i see you work on the hood! Really, you’ve done an awsome work on it!I respect you.
Courage to finish it!
Comment from Kelly Sue
Time: May 4, 2007, 4:32 pm
Respectfully, Eve, I think and hope you’re wrong.
Comment from Kelly Sue
Time: May 4, 2007, 5:36 pm
(Knitting Daily has 10,000 subscribers, so the numbers are there. It’s going to be a matter of getting people hooked on the social aspect. So far, so good as near as I can tell.)
Comment from chloe
Time: May 4, 2007, 8:50 pm
thank you!
Comment from cadi
Time: May 4, 2007, 9:41 pm
oooo!! I can’t wait for Snow White! I have the perfect yarn already in scarlet! Yum!
Comment from Michele
Time: May 5, 2007, 2:00 am
the neckline on Snow White is amazing!
Comment from Leah
Time: May 5, 2007, 2:36 pm
I like the new look of the site! Great stuff! I can’t wait for the patterns to be available.
Ravelry looks so cool. I don’t have an invite but I’m hearing such great stuff about it. I can’t wait to be able to check it out!!
Comment from Katrina
Time: May 6, 2007, 4:59 pm
Yeah! THe reading hoodie is really cool!
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