Ravelry is useful cuz then you can rationalize buying new yarn cuz your stash isn’t *nearly* as big as that other person’s.
@Beanc my stash is too large to even begin getting it all typed in to ravelry...
@redenigma ah, yeah. I have the fortune of having had ravelry before I realllllly started knitting.
That is to Coso for my newish addiction!
@Beanc i had a decent selection of yarns before i started knitting because i've always done some braiding & offloom weaving... and we really shouldn't discuss my several hundred pounds of beads either.
@Beanc it's amazing how many beads i can get into knitting projects though.
@redenigma I’ve seen some very pretty project combining the two
@Beanc @kismatt the red shawl has around 5000 beads. the green-grey shawl has maybe 200. i usually use a hook to put them on (the red shawl has them on decrease stitches in one section which was something new i tried). i've done a few with putting the beads on the yarn first, but it seems to put too much wear on the yarn to keep moving them as you knit. for some things it works better (like beaded bags), but usually those are using silk which is less prone to wear
@redenigma @Beanc Here's one of my beaded shawls - free pattern, I think, and my local Guild had it as a KAL a couple of years ago. I made another one in black for Mom but forgot to take pics. I think it was almost 1K beads on the white one.
@redenigma @Beanc I had a LB pattern that was absolutely terrible, that was supposed to be a CAL. I think I started it and frogged it 3 or 4 times before I finally gave up, it was sooooo bad.
I believe that I went back over a year later and it had been entirely re-written, they'd had so many complaints.
@kismatt @Beanc it's on Knitty. i haven't had a bad pattern from Knitty (but i've had a couple from Rav that were... well, saying awful is being kind & one i paid $8 for. i'm ok with having to redo the math or the types of increases/decreases if the pattern is free.)