Saturday, March 7, 2009

Way Back Machine

Yesterday, I noticed that someone had commented on a picture of a hat that I uploaded to my Ravelry page last week, so I looked at the commenter's profile. She is a lady that knits a lot of hats in the UK, and she has made some really pretty things. One of the items really caught my eye, a scarf with a very intriguing woven pattern mixed with the knitting. Naturally, I checked the Ravelry database to see if I could find this pattern, and I did find. But, it was a pattern that had been removed from the internet, so no longer available. Very sad:

Ravelry pattern info page

I clicked the link, just to make sure, and found this:

Blog has been removed

so, indeed it is gone. Then, I remembered The Wayback Machine. I found it, and copy/pasted the dead address into the search box, which gave me this:

Link on Wayback machine
Clicking on the purple dates gave me this:

Way Back Machine result

Voila! The pattern, minus the pictures, but the important one was easily found on Flickr, by searching for the Blog author's photostream. So in the end, I got the pattern, and have added it to my queue of potential projects.

Oh, and the hat that started it all? This is what it looks like:

Bob Cap Bob Cap

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