April 3: I’m an on-again, off-again knitter. In 2007, I started a sweater for Andrew. I worked on it very occasionally over the last year-and-a-half, and last night, I finished it. I actually finished it a few weeks ago, but when Andrew tried to pull it on over his head, the neck hole was too small. So I ripped out a shoulder seam, and last night I added buttons. In the last month, I’ve also knitted three baby hats. And I’ve got two more projects in the works. I love reading and knitting. And editing photos. I could do any of those three activities for about 10 hours a day.
One thing that has made knitting even more fun is a cool website called Ravelry. It’s an online knitting community, and it’s so neat! Seriously, if you like to knit, you should check it out. You can post pictures of all your projects, but then the great part is that you can look up patterns (many of which are free), and if you’re thinking about doing a pattern, you can type it into the database, and you can see the pictures of all the people who have made that pattern. You can see what kinds of yarn people used, what modifications people made…it’s so helpful! For really popular patterns, there might be hundreds of pictures of the finished projects. It really helps get an idea of what you can do.
Thre’s also a yarn section where you can type in a yarn and see what projects people have made with that yarn. I love it. I’ve spent hours tagging favorite patterns to try. I’ve been meaning to post about this for quite some time. If you join ravelry, look me up! I’m adotzour!
Here’s a screenshot of Jessica’s Ravelry prjoects page. I do one sweater, she does 16 projects:)
