My friend Meg, from the Tuesday afternoon knitting group at Yarn Harbor told me about Ravelry beta website. They have everything that a knitter could ever dream of and then some. It's not yet open to the public, but you can sign up to get on their new member list. It only took one week for me to get added.
Ravelry has a place where you can keep all your projects. You can enter your pattern, needles, type of yarn, and any comments. The patterns and yarns entered by each person go into the Ravelry database so you can browse thousands of finished projects some of them just like yours. Ravelry searches it's database when you enter a project and will connect you to any forum topics and pattern listings that match your item.
You can develop your own Library online, of books you have or want to buy. Any patterns that are listed in those books that are in Ravelry will show up when you click on your books. You can tell ahead of time if there is more than one pattern you'd like to knit out of each book, and whether they will fit as written or not.
There are more features that I haven't even figured out yet, like making a queue of projects for the future based on patterns and yarns you've chosen as favorites. A Library of knitting books that hooks into examples of patterns that people have knit.And more.
Check it out! No knitter should live without it!
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