Ravelry.com : Knitting/Crochet Site

Today's post is a quick one and a very recent discovery ( I just learned about it this morning. Edit: Thanks to my friend Boris for telling me about this! :) ).

There's a new up and coming knitting & crochet social community website called Ravelry.com. According to their site:

"Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration...

...So what can you personally do on Ravelry? You can talk about your own projects, integrate that information into your personal website and contribute to someone else's project a world away."

Apparently it's incredibly popular already even though it's in seemingly alpha/beta mode. Who knew there was such a huge demand for a site only about knitting & crochet? I sent in my request for an invite to the site this morning and when I went to check around lunchtime what my status was on their list, these were the results:

* You are #16981 on the list.
* 11050 people are ahead of you in line.
* 204 people are behind you in line.

There are indeed yarn nerds other than myself but that's a lot of them! If you're already a user on the site, let me know what it's like - if it lives up to the hype, etc.

[Okay, I have several topics to write about that have been in the queue for at least a month and I will be getting through them soon!]

Labels: crafty, knitting, random