New Progress Bars

I had a little knitting blog going but decided to keep everything over here and just make use of my categories. Ravelry is knocking my socks off. I mean, wow. Totally impressed with the knitting website. It is like a virtual knitting journal where I can keep track of my yarns, needles, books, projects (WIP – works in progress, and FO’s – finished objects) to-do list (queue) and friends. In addition, I can also look up a pattern and see what yarns other people are knitting that particular pattern in as well as find a yarn and see all the different patterns created with it. There’s also the discussion area and that’s where I found the “Want Progress Bars?” thread. Of course, I started watching that thread and jumped on it when Casey opened it up for new guinea pigs. Casey is the man behind Ravelry. What do you get when a knitter and a code monkey get married? Ravelry. It’s so cool, even David and some of his guy friends have been thoroughly impressed. And that’s saying a lot about a knitting/crochet website.

So, those are my current projects and I’m excited to be almost finished with the brown lap blanket. I’m on what I’ve determined is the last row but I hear that the bind-off row is a doozey (as in takes forever and uses miles and miles of yarn). I could finish the bib in an hour or so if I just picked it up since it’s so small. The soaker pattern is my in-the-car go-to pattern for traffic jams (gotta love living in Austin). And the Bonsai Tunic is waiting for me to brave the front half. Don’t know when I will get around to that because of all the “wanna-knits” I’ve got swimming around in my head.