Seriously, how cool is this site?
I resisted the lemming-like urge to join the first time I heard about it, for longer than I thought possible. Eventually, though, I followed a pattern link through to Ravelry.com and was denied access because I wasn't a member. So, I bit back my pride and applied for an invitation, and joined. Big surprise, I love it!
It is any crafter's heaven. The only thing that comes close to being half as cool is Etsy - which I have to avoid like the plague because it is a time-suck of epic proportions! I could easily spend a whole day doing nothing but looking at Etsy and Ravelry... and who said computers were supposed to make our lives easier??
Anyway, Ravelry has inspired me to try to organize my knitting, yarn and various projects, much to my husband's delight. He has quietly and kindly lived with random balls of yarn, needles, hooks, and UFO's floating around the house and cluttering up the side tables, and has never once been mean about my endless need to create and my contradictory inability to complete any projects. I am tidying up tables, tallying and inventorying and making excel spreadsheets... he's beside himself.
The only downside to Ravelry? I now have a knitting queue I could not possibly work my way through in this lifetime. And that's not even with all the patterns I want to knit, just the ones I think I could actually find the time, patience, and yarn for. If only all my problems were like this, life would be grand.
That's all the time I can spare for you, blog, I have Ravelry business to attend to!
