Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Ravelry took the joy out of Knitting!

Ok, ok, that's not exactly true. It just enhances my ability to procrastinate by sitting for hours upon hours on the computer looking at knitting rather than actually knitting. I heart Ravelry...even if I was out of town and away from the internets when the Ravelry store went up. This means that by the time I logged in everything that I could possibly want had already been sold out. Meanwhile I'm reading posts from other Ravelers boasting about how many T's they snagged before the store sold out in 5 minutes flat. Greedy much!? I'm just bitter.

Here's the progress on my market bag:
I love the color and how easy and quickly it's knitting up. Maybe this project will help me out of my no knitting funk. Plus, I do like to bring my own shopping bags to the grocery store and Haymarket these days.

While I was away missing out on all of the swag in the Ravelry store which is now sold out (still bitter), I got this beaut:
It's a Day of the Dead Skull, also known as a sugar skull. I've always been totally fascinated with them-- I think that they're beautiful! So this is Miss Dee of Great Southern Tattoo Co.'s rendition of El Dia de los Muertos' sugar skull. I think that she did a great job. P.S. It's just above my Achilles tendon on the back of my ankle. Wait until my mothers sees this one....

Maybe I'll be wearing pants while I'm visiting in a couple of weeks.

7 comments:

Stephanie N said...

I feel your pain-I also missed out on the Ravelry Goodness-and I was online every day :(

Devonshire said...

Love the new tat! Ravelry rocks - but it certainly takes up valuable knitting time. Still alive and kicking...

Team Knit said...

Ooh, your market tote is looking great, I love that colour! And congrats on the new tatoo!

- Julie

Melissa said...

I LOVE THE NEW TATTOO!!!
Cute market bag as well. I try to check out all my favorite blogs and ravelry stuff in one night.. then knit on another... if only I had more free nights! (That sounds like I have a life, what I really mean is... if ony there were more hours in the day to do what I'd rather being doing!

Anonymous said...

Rock out - awesome tattoo!

RandomRanter said...

Like the tat. And the tote is looking good too. May have to make one of those.

Anonymous said...

Ooooh, I love the skull. So pretty and so detailed! I want to make some of those bags too!