Yarn Fu

Stitchmarker Mayhem!

I'm so excited!!!

Looky here! 

This is the first time I've ever done something like this, so I am Jumping Up and Down with Glee...

I even have my own Ravelry group now, specifically for announcements and info about the new club...

Let the Rubbernecking begin!!!

Adventures

So it's the middle of the freakin' night, no point in going to sleep now, since I have to be up in 1 1/2 hours...*scowls*

Got my Ravelry shirt!  Woo hoo!

Still working on all my Ravelympics projects!  Boo! I'll stick some pictures up soon, when I'm not completely stressed and overtired...Maybe I'll even be able to Blog about why I'm stressed and overtired!  Oh, and Oz?  I'm still not pregnant!  *snerk*

But I'm making some decent Ravelympics progress...I'm glad I picked some stuff to do in the WIP event...I'm just about done with the Contradiction needle case (just one pocket to sew on), though I seem to be pathologically incapable of following a pattern--I modified it to be two little pockets on one side and one big pocket on the other side...And I did the smaller pockets as little Babette-style squares...And I'm going to put crochet hooks in it, so it's not even a contradiction any more...*sigh*

I've finished sewing the handles on the felted granny square bags as well...Now I just need to re-felt them, and probably give them another going-over with the defuzzer thingy...

The Peruvia roses are almost completed as well...I liked those very much...It was very fun to learn to knit in a circle (basically) because as a Knitting Noob, I'd never been able to work out in my head exactly how you would knit a circle...I mean, I'd seen it, I just didn't get it...And, the little roses are so perfect for the little wool odds and ends I have left over from my A4A vests too...I always can use up the solid colors in a stripey vest or whatever, but I had a bunch of variegated yarn that I just couldn't work out an 'aesthetically pleasing' way to use in a vest, so this is great...They just need felting too...(I can tell what I will be doing on Sunday already...)

I'll be starting on a pair of Ravelympics socks soon as well...Provided the TSA doesn't steal my dpns...

Yaaaaaay!!!

Mine.

I Rock

I have absolutely no idea why my Feedjit thing has crapped out on me...*scowls*  And I have no freakin' patience right now to sit around and nurture Type Pad through some sort of emotional breakthrough to get it going again...

Bought my dad some Amy Winehouse for his birthday, and since my mum and I were going shopping on Saturday, I stuck the album on my iPod and brought my speaker thingy over to the hotel room so he could listen while we were out...Consequently, I have been prancing all around the house all day today singing the entire album over and over again, and trying to figure out how to get my hair to go up in a big beehive like that...

'They tried to make me go to rehab, I said nooo, nooo, noooo!'

I think I might have found a pattern for the Ravelympics thing, for the Handmaiden Sea Silk...But I am still undecided, basically because I suddenly have a whole bunch of stuff on my plate for the next couple of weeks...Oh, yeah, and because I'm still scared of lace...*snerk*

The new Ravelry ad seems to have really done it for my Etsy shop this time...It's kind of hard to tell exactly where hits are coming from, because Etsy doesn't have any sort of counter or even let you add code for one...I'm thinking maybe if sales keep going up, I might do some sort of sale code for Ravelry to get a better idea of how the ads are working out...It's pretty cool though, and I've had several multiple sales as well...I made a bunch more mini stitch markers this afternoon, and some new style larger ones...I'll have to make sure I photograph those this week since my little file of Etsy items is running low...I'd tried to just fill up my shop with stuff at first until I realized that it's actually better to put one or two items a day in so that your shop pops up multiple times on the front page (more publicity)...I think my next thing is to try and get some sort of "branding" thing going on...One of my customers has a really great idea in her graphic design Etsy shop...The colors aren't quite my taste, but I absolutely love the idea--a total package for all your Etsy needs!  *grin*

Unraveled

So I got bitten by a chupacabra the other night, which must be why I haven't posted to the Blog in a while...

Either that or I'm spending all my free time playing on Ravelry...One of the two...

I'm In

I'm just incensed that my precious, precious Ravelry time is being wasted eating dinner...

*gobbles food quickly so as to get back to the computer in as little time as possible*

Ravelry

Casey said:

cyberfiber1011@hotmail.com is at #5047
on the list  - there are about 1435 
people ahead of you so it could take as long
as 10 days to get your 
invite.
 
see you soon!
Casey

That was 12 days ago...I have tried everything I can think
of to make my invitation come faster...I have refreshed
my email inbox eleventy-two times...I have gone to
the Ravelry homepage and stared at it for extended
periods, willing the server to send me my
invite...I have looked at the screenshots on
the website, and been given a Grand Tour by the
wondrous Sleepycat...I have whined on the Lime & Violet
message boards about how my invitation hasn't arrived
yet and drooled on the posts from those lucky
enough to have one...I have photographed and
organized(most of) my stash on Flickr even...

*siiiiigh*

I'm off now, to do a Google search on patience...