Checking In Only To Point You Elsewhere

I'm leaning with weariness, so we'll make this short tonight. First, if you're stumped for what to buy the knitter in your life, you could do worse than reading the Yarn Harlot's advice this month*. She started on December first, and is throwing out more ideas just about every day, so start here and keep going. She has all sorts of suggestions, and since she knows knitters and those who love them but don't understand them, she serves as a good translator. Also, I've been enjoying seeing what lovely things she knows about that I didn't.

*If you don't need ideas for Christmas, well, keep it in mind for future reference. I'll also say that if your knitter doesn't have Stephanie's books, they are excellent. I have them all, and wish she'd do audios of the ones that aren't there yet.

I'll close by quoting her, part of today's topic: Yarn.

Keep an eye on the family computer. There is a website called "Ravelry." If you walk by any computer in the house, you might see this website. There is a page your knitter has been keeping, called "Queue." It's a list of stuff they'd like to make, and what they would like to make it out of. If you saw this page open, you could feel very confident that if you wrote down what yarn your knitter had already chosen for that project, that you could then get online or on the phone and order that amount of that yarn in that colour and know that your knitter would be thrilled. They'd also think you were a bit of a sneak, and most knitters would like that.

PS. Pro tip: Other knitters can see your knitter's Ravelry queue. If your knitter hasn't left it open, but you know other knitters, they can go look for you. This would get extra sneakiness points.