This week, Ravelry posted a message that they had the ONE MILLIONTH person join the website. Wowsers! Hooray! Congrats Ravelry! Just in case you have been under a rock or something for a couple of years, and you haven’t heard of it — Ravelry is a unique free website for fiber lovers that was started…
Category: Project Management
Project Management, Yarn Management
An Easier Way to Recycle Used Yarn
Over at Knitting Daily, today’s post talks about how to “get the kinks out” of yarn after frogging a TOAD. (And if that didn’t make any sense, you may want to read about online knitting jargon here.) Actually, I think it’s more like “getting the KNITS out” — and believe me, I’ve done my share.…
Designing, Project Management
Luna Tee finished!
OK, OK, I admit that in the last post on this subject, I didn't spell out every little detail about exactly how I was going to finish this bad boy off… but then there would be no suspense left for the big surprise ending. Good old "Feather & Fan" to the rescue! F & F…
Designing, Project Management
Workin’ on the UFO’s: “Luna” Tee
A few posts back, I mentioned that I seem to have developed not so much a New Year's Resolution, as an End-Of-Year Resolution: to finish up the last few remaining UFO's in my knitting pile. And so, I've been battling with this one. This is a tee in 2 x 2 ribbing, worked top-down in…
Fashion, Style & Fit, Project Management
Choosing the Right (Sweater) Project
The other week, I was teaching a class and, as usual, at the beginning we went around the table and did introductions. Often I ask people to give their name, how long they've been knitting, and then some kind of tidbit about their knitting: maybe their most recent FO, or what they are currently working…