4 posts tagged “ravelry”

What a day. It started quite early, leaving the house by 6:00 AM to get there by 7:15 (had to stop for coffee!) The Western Maryland Ravelers set up right front and center, so we could have a pitstop/meet-and-greet/hangout for the day. Great idea, and one we'll repeat! Trillion stopped by to say hello, and I had to get a pic of her modified jean jacket, with Mrs. Weasley sleeves!!!

One of my first stops was The Merlin Tree, where Dave gave my HitchHiker a tuneup. All in all, it's put together correctly, but he made some adjustments that should make it spin more smoothly. I ran into a Raveler with a fabulous tatoo - don't even know her name! - but I kept running into her throughout the day and into the evening at the Rav party!
I was able to hit the Ravelry meetup, with buttons and avatar stickers, and lots and lots and lots of people! Lots of people got pics of Casey and Jess, but no one has one of Casey pointing to Jess' nose!
I spent most of the day shopping myself silly. Ended up buying fiber roving for spinning two major projects, plus a few miscellaneous bits of roving, some plain ol' brown and cream that was only .80/ounce (couldn't pass it up, for use as practice!), and the big ticket item of the day, double row fiber combs by Indigo Hound. Yay!
Toni and I met each other at the Ravelry meetup party that evening, after closing out the festival with the Western Maryland group - we left the fields at 7:15! Toni and I met some folks from Long Island who also knit in a Barnes and Noble. Their store, however, doesn't like them so much... they've been asked to find another place. Our Barnes and Noble loves it when we come - we're fun and we eat a lot!

You can't quite tell, but I have my buttons - including my new Ravelry logo pin - on the strap of my bag. My new Braided Ruana Shawl got lots of compliments. Since I hadn't washed or blocked it, it was shedding ALL over my black Ravelry beta tee - not a good fashion match!

In the past four or five days, the members of Ravelry have donated - in $10 increments - over $30,000. This brings Ravelry into the black, and pays for the sorely needed new servers.

I'm speechless.  If you love yarn and aren't on Ravelry yet, you should be.

Had a wonderful time last night, meeting up at the Frederick Borders with some Ravelry folk. It's really inspiring to see what everyone else is working on, and to chat fiber without anyone getting tired and wanting to change the subject!

In other fiber-y news, I finished my first sweater! It's from Saturday Sweaters, and is SO comfy. I received the yarn in trade for knitting some felted bags for my LYS, and then only had to buy ONE ball in order to have enough to make the sleeves the right length.

I'm just about done with my first lace, out of my first handspun (of any significatn amount, that is):

Finally, I'm working (as always) on a pair of socks. It's my Plain Ol' Socks pattern -sort of a mix of the "best of" the basic online patterns. This pair is in a sage green Fixation, which should be very comfy and soft and stretchy.

I'm really, really, really enjoying my fall knitting.

I'm invited to Ravelry! I put my name on the list weeks and weeks ago, and my turn came around just moments ago. Ravelry is a new (still in beta) "place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration." It's content-driven, so it will grow as more and more users add their info.

I have a house of kids today, so I can't give it time, but I'm in!!!!