When Ravelry.com Beta site opened in 2007, I waited with anticipation for my invitation to arrive. I was quick to post photos of my own projects with every intention of churning out the patterns that went with them.
I had been teaching knitting classes and knitting non-stop for a couple of years. Like many knitters, I had learned the basics as a child and over the following years picked up the needles, finished a project or two along the way, and then moved on to other projects that fit an ever-changing schedule - marriage, children, work, divorce and school - all the normal things that many of us have experienced in our twenties and thirties. Several times I let the yarn stash go, but always held on to the tools, books and magazines.
What I didn't count on were the many distractions and self-doubts that kept me from my goal. The bones of the patterns were in place, but I was afraid of actually putting the work online. The explosion of young knitters unleashed a generation of enthusiastic, computer savvy designers and breathed new life to my old needles. Certainly my patterns would not be missed.
One afternoon this fall I found a Ravelry message in my inbox. Someone was asking for the pattern. Shocked - I really had forgotten all about the pattern page - I logged onto Ravelry and found that there were over 50 requests for patterns. So with egg on my face and my needles crossed, here we go!
2 comments:
Thank you for posting instructions for the vest, it is a vest that I will wear a lot, and will be good for using up the handspun wool from all my experamental dye projects.
I will first do it with odds and ends from my stash.
Hope you have a Happy Holiday season.
I feel like Alice and I've found the rabbit hole: I've been through the circle of Ravelry to your site to the pattern for the vest to Ravelry...and so on. Where is the pattern??? I'd really like to take it on as a fall project. I've done several modular knits so I think I may be able to do this one, too. Thanks, J. Brennan
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