You Like Me, You Really Like Me!

October 19th, 2007 | View Comments

So I’ve been on Ravelry for almost two weeks now. You know what I find the most addictive?

It is not:

Abusing the fantastic organizational tools to log all my projects back into stone age and link them to blog posts from stone age.
Hunting around the project pages for my patterns to see who’s made them and what they look like. Mostly I just like confirming that my pattern directions are understandable and able to be followed by People Who Aren’t Me.
Stumbling across fabulous new projects that I must knit or I will die. Also, I like finding that someone else has already designed the exact item from my imagination that I wanted to knit. Saves me the trouble of having to design it myself.
Discovering a surprising fondness for the most Facebook-like tools: friends and groups. It’s been fun to have some of my non-commenting readers “out” themselves. I’ve also enjoyed joining groups for all sorts of knitting and non-knitting esoterica. I actually went a little group-crazy for a while and had to pare myself back down to 11. I love Grey’s Anatomy and all, but I decided that I will stick to talking about it on TV-centric web sites.

There are two things I find addictive, but both boil down to other people stroking my ego:

Finding my posts have been flagged educational, interesting, or funny. Especially funny.
Finding that my projects have been favorited. There was a point where I was literally checking Ravelry once an hour to see if I’d gotten any more of those little hearts.

Hi, my name is Yvonne and I have a Ravelry problem.