Hiphip Hurray!

Today is my 4 year Ravelversary!

In the 4 years since Ravelry has come around, I've logged 282 projects (that number could actually be much higher because I didn't start keeping track of everything, including random dishcloths, until this year).

I've finished my first sweater, my second sweater, and a few others by now.

I have learned how to do crazy new things and how to improve on things I learned the first night I struggled with ugly purple yarn and shiny needles.

From my first project logged into to Ravelry to the one I completed last night for a massive KAL/CAL group, I've had learned so much and have spent more hours than I care to count on those green and white pages.

www.flickr.com Jesmy's knitting photoset

Odd

For some reason, all of my photos on Flickr aren't showing up in Ravelry. I have no idea why... But I really don't want to re-add all of them. If I click on the photo viewer and then on the link for the photo, I can see it on the Flickr page. It's weird and annoying.

Sundays are for...

Oh who knows!!? I made good progress on my hat yesterday. It looks very cute and the pattern is working out well. I might just have to write this one up and post it for people. I did, however, run out of the Aspen colored Cascade. I thought I would have enough, but I was very, very wrong. I tried getting some more today but the store was closed. Oh well.

I have some Ravelry friends coming over tomorrow to pick up a bag of yarn for donations. They are teaching students to knit and needed more goodies. I have plenty laying around, so they are coming to pick it up. Yay! I'm glad it's going to be put to good use.

Skunk not stroke.

I finished up the back of the Minimalist Cardigan last night. It looks... odd... sideways... strange. The moss stitch gave it a really bad bias which leads to difficult measuring and I'm going to guess a big effing pain to block. Yay. I'm looking forward to that.

I cast on for the front tonight. I'm going to do both front panels at the same time to try to speed up the process. Moss stitch gets boring.

I still haven't done ANYTHING with the Feather & Fan scarf. I really, really dislike the yarn. It bunches up and tangles. It's gorgeous, but annoying as hell.

I just added a crapload of cotton yarn to my stash on Ravelry. Most of it needs photos taken which I'll try to get tomorrow.

Blah, blah, blah. I sort of stopped writing in the middle of all of this and lost my train of thought.

Twit-tastic

I have a growing addiction to Twitter. It amuses me. I like typing out random thoughts and I like reading other people's random thoughts.

Saffista sent me some links via Twitter concerning my angst with reusable meshy grocery bags that are knit!! Yay! She linked me to two patterns on Ravelry and I'll be trying them out shortly. Both are free and the photos of both look great!

I'm currently holed up in the bedroom in front of the computer while Vince writes some papers. It's finals week and he has a ton of work to do, so I'm watching lots of TV and movies online. I've also read a few books and played endless on Ravelry and Twitter. My queue on Ravelry has grown to ten pages so I'm really, really looking forward to the queue organizing that's coming out. I need it.

Last night while I watched 27 Dresses and Enchanted, I knit a pair of mini cabled grey fingerless gloves. It was some crazy, almost sparkly variegated grey in my stash. I just pulled out the entire ball and started knitting from both ends until I got low on yarn. They turned out very nicely although the yarn is a little itchy. I'll try to remember to take some photos tomorrow. Oh! Speaking of photos, I have some on my camera I need to upload. Toodles!

Points!

Lookie! ---->

I finally got my Ravelry-linked progress bars to work. They were very confusing, but, I got it! I still can't get photos to show up, but I really don't mind.

Dogs Don't Like Hats

I was trying to take a photo of Bug wearing the cute little earflap hat I knit for my brother, but he wasn't having any of it. All the photos turned out as blue-green/brown blurs.

I'm going to spend some of the day today drinking loads of tea and adding yarn that I took photos of ages ago to my stash on Ravelry. I need to get that taken care of one of these days. I'm very good about adding new yarn, but I'm still playing catch up with all the pre-Ravelry stash.

Part of the urge to get these uploaded is the need to find some yarn to knit a scarf for Mother's Day and it just really helps me knit down the stash when I know what I have. Imagine that!

I just packed all my sweaters away for the summer. I was able to fit most into a large space bag and suck all the air out. They are now living in my trunk until I can get to the storage room. But now I'm thinking about digging a few out and trying this. I really do prefer cardigans to pullovers now. Something about them is just much more comfortable to me.

Sisters.

One of the many reasons I love Ravelry are the groups. There is a Boulder group which has been amazing. I've been to coffee shops to knit with other people, I've met some great people and now, our groups is working on a project to lend a hand to Boulder's sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Dushanbe is currently enduring one of the worst winters in 50 years. People don't have heat or running water. Babies are freezing to death in maternity wards.

Since we're knitters and knitters like to keep people warm and give, we're doing just that. We're knitting for them. We've had volunteers willing to share yarn and other supplies. We're still in the planning stages, but we're knitting for all ages.

I knit a pair of baby booties tonight in less than 2 hours. I'll probably make another pair today and maybe a hat or two. I have all this yarn Oma gave me and I am glad I get to share it like this.

I can't wait to see what we end up with. I'm sure it will be amazing. :)

Progress...

Bars!

I got added to the list for the new fancy Ravelry progress bars. They are in early, early testing stage. Now I have yet another thing to distract me from Christmas knitting...


ETA:
7:43 PM

Blogger no like bars. Fix no make sense. Jessica going to knit hat and rub forehead.

For the love of...

Ravelry.

Seriously! Have I mentioned how much I love this website. I think I could spent my entire day on there and not get bored.

Today I got a message from a lady about a hat she was knitting. I just finished one with the same yarn. It was very neat being able to help her out.

I cast on for two Christmas gifts yesterday. A hat and a funky wrap/scarf thing. The hat is going well. It's a new pattern that I haven't tried before and I'm really enjoying it. The wrap/scarf is a complete experiment, so I might be knitting a disaster. We'll see. The dog really enjoys trying to steal the yarn from me though.

We gave him a ball of purple Fun Fur the other night and he was one happy camper.



Needless to say, the entire floor ended up covered in bits of purple, but he enjoyed himself, so it was worth it. The purple knot he made now lives on top of the bookshelf so he can't eat it when we're not watching.

ZOMG.

XD

One of my projects (the ballband towel) is up in screenshot #14 of the new Ravelry tour. Woo.

Woohoo! Ravelry!

I got my today! Yay! I've been playing since the moment I got it and can't stop. I need to get off the computer soon and go to the library before it gets too late.

Woohoo! Ravelry!

I got my Ravelry invite today! Yay! I've been playing since the moment I got it and can't stop. I need to get off the computer soon and go to the library before it gets too late.