So, I've been hearing about this site, Ravelry, on all sorts of knitting blogs lately. (Yes, I'm a dork and read knitting blogs) It looks like SUCH an awesome site! It's only in beta, so they're slowly inviting beta testers. I signed up to be on the waiting list to be a beta tester yesterday. I just checked my place in line.

• You signed up on Yesterday
• You are #38828 on the list.
• 16610 people are ahead of you in line.
• 282 people are behind you in line.
• 56% of the list has been invited so far

So, still over 16,000 beta testers ahead of me. It could be worse. I could be one of the 282 people who signed up after I did. LOL

Since I'm chatting a bit about knitting, I'll give you a list of the things I'm working on right now. I just finished a hat out of some yummy soft galenas wool yarn, dyed by Three Irish Girls in their Elsbeth colorway. It's beautiful! I knit it flat though and decided I just don't like hats with seams, so I'm using the rest of the skein to make the same hat, but a little bit bigger and in the round. This is my first attempt at cables. I was a bit worried, but they're turning out okay. I have issues with tension though...especially when going from knit to purl. I've got to work on that. On another set of needles I have a pair of pants going. I lost my second skein of yarn though, so those are on hold until I can find it. LOL

Coming in the mail I have the knitpicks options set of needles. I've been very limited in what I can do because I just don't have enough needles to do all of the projects I want to do. So, hopefully this will alleviate this issue a bit. I also bought their set of 1-3 dpns so I can start on some socks! I bought some sock yarn (in burgandy) to make myself a pair of socks and some yarn (in Volcano Twist) to make my little sister a pair. She's all emo, so I thought she might like a pair of knee highs made out of this.

I'm in a homemade hat swap on Friends and Families, so I bought the yarn to make the four hats that I signed up to make. I have an adult woman's hat to make, two young girl's hats and one young boy's hat to make. So, I ordered all of the yarn for those and when it arrives on the 8th, it should be all hats, all the time around here. lol

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