Besides knitting on the lace dress, I also finished entering my stash at Ravelry. Wait, I take that back. The main stash is entered... I still have a few boxes in the basement, and I didn't enter my Knitpicks Wool of the Andes stash I use for felting. This'll be a task for some other time.
These are my overall Ravelry stats:
40 projects
117 stash
5 queue
6 favorites
23 friends
74 books
3 blog posts
And more specifics on the projects:
21 finished
14 in progress
5 hibernating
That is pretty bad - 14 in progress. Geez... And among them are three big projects: Brett's birthday sweater, Jacquie's lace shawl and my lace dress. And five pairs of socks - sure sounds like a serious case of not-wanting-to-finish-anything, doesn't it? ;-)
But what is kinda cool - you can export your stash list in an Excel spreadsheet. So here are my totals:
117 entries
6,868 grams of yarn
69,119 yards of yarn
WOW.
I think it's pretty funny that you can get stats like this. Makes me want to take my yarn diet a bit further...
And here is an overall update from the Ravelry people for you:
A quick update for you guys - here is what is going on over in Ravelry-land.
We are up to 7,162 users and 85,001 projects and there are 15,432 people on the waiting list. To repeat what I said in a previous post, we can't really speed up the invites until we move from our beta environment to our real servers. This should happen during the next few weeks. It's hard enough to add ~1200 people a week and I'm hoping to do a quick upgrade today so that we don't have to slow down the invites. Oh, I'm also proud to report that *more than half* of our users have used Ravelry within the last 24 hours - that's pretty cool. We must be doing something right :)
Jess and I are working day and night to get the site up and open - don't think that we're just sitting here having coffee with the people who have been invited and making you guys wait! Ravelry has become an amazing community and a truly useful resource and we wish that we were ready for all of you today.
On another note - the BBQ was a lot of fun. The weather was surprisingly OK. It was overcast and only in the high 70s. Our salmon was really good - I'm glad we brought it because the bratwursts looked pretty scrumtious...
And, DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!! Four of my dear knitting friends came over to the dark side and are now also Georgia bloggers:
Ms. Abalama - Nancy (I know how to spell Alabama, but I always call Nancy Ms. Abalama), Brett, Doug & Famous Steve. Rock on knitters!!! Please visit their blogs and give them a warm welcome to "our" world. ;-)
Have a good week. More knit pix later. ;-) Since I don't have any new knitting pix, the fiber dogs wave their paws at you.
PS: It totally amazes me how much time I spend on the laptop computer I brought home from work. That is a scary thing... I usually spend almost no time at all online when I'm at home. I "blame" it all on Ravelry and that I "have" to enter so much data... And I've gotten almost nowhere on my books (Ravelry's not ready yet), and I haven't even started entering knitting needles yet...
Comments (3)
OMG.. you're awesome! You got Famous Steve to start a blog.. hee hee!
Posted by mouse | August 13, 2007 12:10 PM
Posted on August 13, 2007 12:10
I'm too lazy to enter all my existing stuff in Ravelry. My account will just be a picture of when I joined going forward. :) Thanks for the links to they guys' blogs!
Posted by Janice in GA | August 13, 2007 3:02 PM
Posted on August 13, 2007 15:02
Thanks for the blog plug Claudia! I have 9 comments already! YAY! Blogging is fun! Now, do you think you can get me on Ravelry? Although, I'm a little scared to actually take inventory of my yarn stash.... I might need a few days off!
Posted by famous steve | August 14, 2007 6:55 PM
Posted on August 14, 2007 18:55