Yarn Everywhere!

So, Ravelry. It’s amazing. I spent a few hours last night exploring and getting my profile (friend me!) in working order. It took a much shorter time than expected because the site is so well-designed. I know I griped about the necessity of a Flickr account, but Flickr really did make it easy. I downloaded a program that let me upload photos in batches, so I just uploaded one batch and was from then on able to drag pictures of my projects and yarns all around Ravelry. Obviously, as the site is still in beta, there are some things that need improving. For instance, I’d like to see the Stash and Project sections be a little more integrated. When I click the “cast on” button on a project page, I want to be able to choose a yarn from my stash instead of manually entering a new yarn. Then my chosen yarn should automatically be moved from my “stash” to my “all used up,” if I so desire. This could be so beautiful in its utility. Also, Ravelry still hasn’t registered the two new blog posts I made yesterday. But I can see that a few weeks or months from now, this is going to be a fantastically intuitive, useful, fun site. I think it’ll become integral to the online fiber community.

After playing around on Ravelry and raving about it to several friends (”It’s like Facebook, but for yarn!”), I still had time to start a pair of ankle socks out of the Knitpicks Risata in Grass I got last week.

I’m just past the short row toe. This is the first short row “thing” I’ve done, excluding the turning of heel-flap socks. It was a little more complicated than I thought it would be, but completely do-able. I like the look of it. I was planning to do a short row heel as well (thus making the name, Short Rows of Grass, most appropriate), but I want to try a heel flap construction from the toe up. I’ll try to save that for later.