Showing posts with label ravelry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ravelry. Show all posts

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Stash Photos on Ravelry

I have been working to get more of my yarn stash organized.  I spent a few hours this weekend taking photos and adding yarns to Ravelry.  It was fun.  I concentrated on yarns for which I have no specific project as yet.  I will try to spend some time next weekend (while TL and MM are camping) to go through the cupboard of projects that I haven't started yet, but have all the yarns and patterns for.  I do think that I finally have most of my knitting library on Ravelry, but probably have missed some pattern leaflets here and there.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Ravelry scares me

No, I am not on Ravelry. This is my current world:
  • I have 2 year old pictures on my camera that I can't seem to get on Flickr.
  • I desperately need to update my regular blog.
  • I get updates on MySpace from people I knew in high school or college. I can barely keep up.
  • Facebook is out of control--and I am supposed to be keeping up a Facebook page for my real job.
  • My stash is now condensed to a huge ziplock bag, and my needles are all in one place (mostly) for the first time ever. I have discovered that I have 2 addi turbos exactly the same size, and lots of sets of bamboo the same size. I fear I am falling into my old pattern (like I did with cross stitch) of just buying whatever is necessary for the current project. Improvement on old pattern: I am not chucking the remainders when finished (mostly).
From what I can tell, Ravelry seems too much like cataloging to me. I don't feel the need to keep track of my former projects to quite that level. I obviously can't keep track of my needles and I just don't care about my stash that much--probably because I just buy new stuff when I see it!

Warning--whining coming.....
My new year's resolution was to have more balance and fun this year. I don't think I am making it. Summary of last week (first week of classes)
Monday, MLK holiday: worked 6 hours in office, 3 hours at home
Tuesday worked from 7:20am - 8:10pm
Wednesday worked from 7:10am-7ish pm
Thursday worked from 7:25am-5pm
Friday worked from 7:10-6:05pm
Saturday worked from 9:40-3:30 training new students
And, I am not counting the phone calls, or reading/responding to emails at night here.......or the fact that I had only one real lunch break, and I don't take other breaks during the day.
I really do LOVE my job most of the time--except when I am this tired.
And....the name of this blog is: don't talk about work!