Of course everyone in the online knitting community has discovered Ravelry. I’ve been on since July, and the site has helped turn me into an obsessive knitter. The community on there is amazing, and the wealth of information on thousands of patterns, yarns, and techniques is overwhelming.
This month is Ravelry’s one year anniversary, and so Julia decided to hold a little fund raiser to help Ravelry buy a new server. I volunteered to create and host an ad to run in the forums to encourage people to give. The main motivation for giving was all the many prizes.
Well, the original goal was to raise $10,000. The information went up on April 4th, and the donations started rolling in. Then flooding in. Let’s just say that Casey has bought his server, and could buy two more if he wanted.
I’ve been producing all sorts of ravatars for people to use after they have donated, and it’s so wonderful to see them pop up all over the site. And I have been constantly updating our donation thermometer. We’ve busted the first two I made!
