I’ve only just recently really realized what an amazing thing Ravelry is. While it answers my every question and gives me billions of ideas, it’s also probably bad for me - like I really need more encouragement to start more projects. FINISH first, then start all these lovely things.
The best part about it is when you think, hey, that’s a great pattern, I wonder what would happen if I tried x? And then you look, and someone did, and there’s your answer. Just now I came across a beaded fingerless glove pattern and thought, gosh, that looks pretty, but I’m not going to knit it unless I can actually see it in action, as it were. And look! Six people have already knitted it and helpfully provided pictures of said gloves containing hands. (Socks and gloves always look stupid without the appropriate body parts; I don’t know why anyone uses pictures without ‘em.) Half of those people even provided helpful comments. I’d finish knitting the fingers too; it’s way too thick a yarn for those half-finger things. There’s a reason it’s called FINGERing yarn, y’know. (Ok, so that’s not it, but it ought to be.)
I even posted my very first UGH.
Nothing against the pattern, it makes a great ski mask, but the converted-to-a-hat part looked like poo. And since I only want a ski mask maybe two days a year, it wasn’t worth it. I frogged it and started Topi instead.
Another example - the other day I saw this on the newsstand, and completely ignored it, because that sweater on the cover, YUCK. And then I saw a hat on Ravelry that I HAD TO HAVE. Turned out it was in that very magazine. But when I finally found a copy, I couldn’t find the hat. It took three flip-throughs before I realized that the beautiful hat I saw on Ravelry was the ugly striped hat at the back of the book, just with more sensible yarn and a better ribbon.
Wow. WOW. Crap. I just discovered a way to search folks’ favorites that would keep me knitting well into the next century. Damn.
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