This one's for Lynn

Because she asked where the people were who were downloading the pattern (and it really hadn't occurred to me), this one's for Lynn...

I did a little research into who's doing the downloading of the new pattern (which, BTW, now has 238 downloads - wow). What I found out is that while you can see who marked it as a favorite and who put it in their queue, you can only see raw numbers of downloads, no individual user IDs.

However, I did take a look through the 'user activity' on the pattern. If you review the activity in chronological order, you can see it traveling through friends in different areas, much the way we do here... So Lynn will 'favorite' a beautiful pattern, then Roberta will, then Barbara will, then I will, then Peggy will... and so on.

Well, especially in the early hours of it being posted, I could see that happen with the 'favoriting' and 'queuing' of this pattern. Then, at some point, a friend who's outside the first area will see it, and all of a sudden, there's a new group in another location who's found it. Fascinating.

Because there's no way to get Ravelry generate a report, I jotted down just the two most recent pages of activity. Most of the Ravelers in these areas favorited the pattern; I've indicated with "Q" those that put it in their queue (and a reminder that Ravelry doesn't require you to put in where you're from; it's voluntary information and you can put in whatever you want):

Cambridge, Iowa
Sacramento, California
Portland, Oregon
La Quinta, California
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Victoria, Canada
Woolwich, Maine
Darmstadt, Germany
Lappeenranta, Finland (Q)
West Virginia (Q)
Manchester, New Hampshire
Lincoln
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Lake Forest Park, Washington
Morgantown
Krems, Austria
Osnabruck, Germany
Central Pennsylvania
Littleton, Colorado
Leeds, UK (Q)
Rome, New York
Reading, UK (Q)
Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden
Remscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (Q)
Niedersachsen, Germany
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
London, UK
Wolfenbuttel, Niedersachsen, Germany
Marburg, Germany
Torrance, California
Oslo, Norway
San Francisco, California (Q)
Heidek, Germany
Neidersachsen, Germany (you think all those folks here know each other??)
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (Q)
Tasmania, Australia
Zweirducken

Pretty cool, huh? Thanks, Lynn, for nudging me to look at this. It was fun!