Calling all knitters!!! Have you heard the news? There is a new site out there, similar to myspace, but devoted entirely to knitters!!! It is still in the beta testing stage, so there is a quite a wait to get in. The site is currently running on inadequate servers but within the next couple of weeks they'll have it up and running on their new, bigger and better servers, and will be able to let us all in! I'm 22196 on the list. There are 12083 ahead of me in line and 5772 behind me. Those number change by the moment. If things go according to schedule, I should be creating my own page at ravelry.com within 3 weeks!!! Go HERE to sign up.

I'm knitting very quickly on the Weasley Sweater from Charmed Knits. I've completed the body up to where the sleeves attach. I'm a little worried that I got carried away and it will be too long, but it seems that longer is coming back into style, so maybe it's a good thing. It took a little bit of figuring for me to translate it back in my mind to the way the pattern is written. I avoid sewing seams like I avoid food poisoning, so there was no way I was going to knit the sweater in pieces and then sew them together! Uh-uh! I'll have to sew the shoulders together, but I think that's it! Hopefully I'll be able to do a 3 needle bind-off instead of sewing. Or, perhaps I'll be able to use kitchener stitch, which is very fun to do. For the sleeves, I'll pick up stitches around the edges of the armholes and knit them to the wrist on two circular needles. I haven't read far enough into the pattern to know if this is going to be easy to do or not. I just haven't figured out why people still create knitted objects in multiple pieces. Since we now know how to knit a sweater without a single seam, why would we do any other way? That said, I LOVE THIS BOOK!!



As soon as the Weasley Sweater is done, I'll finish the Clessidra socks. Then, I'll wear them together!