Yes, I am one of the folks anxiously awaiting my Ravelry invite. I check my status every week. Now that I believe they are close to being ready for everyone, I check almost daily (and pray that they don’t run into any major snags). I can tell already that this will be right up my alley. I’m a list-maker by nature, and I already spend way too much time on the internet researching potential projects. Usually, I just Google or search Flickr to try to find out who has already made what I’m thinking of making. It’ll be so nice to have all that info under one roof. But the wait is killing me. In the meantime, I satisfy my Ravelry-lust by reading about how much fun other people are having. Like here and here (and lots of others, just Google it). There’s even been a tiny dust-up here, which I find interesting. I believe the author was trying to be tongue-in-cheek, and did not mean to offend anyone. And I’m equally sure he had no idea of the response it would generate. Unfortunately the comments degenerated rather quickly into the “I’m a knitter and a techie, so there” type rather than focusing on the larger issue of why Ravelry made the tech page to begin with. It made the page, not because it’s about knitting, but because it appears it will be one of the most useful, interactive tools out there. And it has huge potential as a model for other crafts/arts/hobbies. You can’t tell me that folks who are interested in other pursuits that could benefit from organization and linking (one of the features of Ravelry that most appeals to me is that I can look up a yarn that I have in my stash and see what other people have made with it, or I can look at a pattern that I have and see what yarn others have used. The ability to link yarn to projects and vice-versa is something that I couldn’t do with the simple lists I’ve been keeping), with a little social networking thrown in for fun won’t be watching very closely. In the meantime, I’ll be waiting. By my calculations, I should be getting my invitation about the time my kiddos go back to school, which means I get the computer to myself. How’s that for timing?
