Baby blankets are fun projects because they’re large enough to make you feel really accomplished and yet small enough to work up quickly before a baby shower. Moreover, every baby needs at least one special blanket, and it feels great to be able to create that for a baby with your own two hands. There are a couple of great things about this free crochet hat pattern. First of all, you have the option to make it a messy bun hat. What people really love most though is the unique brim that you can create for this hat.

Guided tips are then listed on the right hand side, underneath the Quick Search and Help help! Discover the world of knitting and crochet community website Ravelry and learn more about its fantastic features with Jen Arnall-Culliford in part one of this Midweek Masterclass. If you’d like even more great knitting ideas, please make sure you join my mailing list. Subscribing to my YouTube channel Studio Knit is another free and easy way for us to stay connected and help support my work. Ravelry’s website does have a “mobile view” designed for small screens. The mobile option is found in pattern search, forums, and message box when using your phone in portrait mode.

To do this, you just need to click on the ‘search stashes’ link under the search box on the main Yarns page (12 /yarns). You can then filter your search to find what you’re looking for. Pinterest’s app is so user-friendly and you’ll find me pinning “all the things” when in line at the grocery store or watching television. “Embarrassing and degrading,” a user named Glassbonnie wrote, of the Pussyhat. “Unless all of your knitting is for charity, please don’t try to lecture people on what they want to make for themselves for their own reasons and on their own time,” Merrymcg14 wrote. Crochet baby shower gifts are among the most popular patterns that people look for.

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The content on the site is completely user-driven, resulting in a vibrant community. Members share projects, ideas, and even their yarn collection. On each yarn page, you can get information about a yarn as well as

browse and search pages of projects that people have made with that yarn. Cassidy and Jessica have received a number of inquiries from outside investors hoping to partner with the site. “We were just trying to form relationships.” Cassidy recalled the publisher’s C.E.O. telling them, “If you’re going to be like this .

Your knitted work will give other knitters inspiration to knit up the same project themselves. Easily find knitting and crochet project ideas when searching for Ravelry Free Patterns. The “project” section of your notebook is a place for you to organize and share your knitting and crochet projects. Jessica’s love of fiber crafts, community, and organization inspired the creation of Ravelry! She knits, crochets, spins, sews, gardens, bikes, and reads voraciously. Jess lives in Massachusetts with her wife Cassidy, their two children, and her canine sidekick George.

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Ravelry not only lets you catalogue your patterns, but it also helps you to buy patterns directly from designers. If you go to the main Patterns page, using the green Patterns tab at the top of most Ravelry pages, you’ll see a number of helpful ways to sift through the millions of patterns listed on Ravelry. One of the first ways that people use Ravelry is to track their projects.

To give the best experience, grouped patterns are available offline. If you refresh a group, it will get the latest patterns in the group and clear down any old ones. On scrolling down, more patterns will be added to the group if available. Patterns show tags to identify whether they are knit or crochet, how hard they are to make, and show a rating of how popular they are.

2019 Turkey Trot Crochet Poncho Pattern

It is also linked on the front page so that the majority of Ravelers who do not use the forums and have been contacting us via other means will be able to easily access it. This feedback form, rather than the forum threads, is how we will gather and track feedback about the New Look change going forward. If you have additional feedback or questions about Ravelry’s new look or the survey itself, please feel free to email us. Stitch is a Windows Phone 7 app that will allow you to access your Ravelry information on the go!

• “Finding people you had things in common with online was still a new thing,” Jessica said.
• This is a poncho pattern that everyone really enjoyed making.
• Chrome extension that copies a Ravelry project and makes a new one for the user.
• If you didn’t use a pattern, or used one independent from Ravelry, those are options, too.

Many hours of YouTube tutorials later, the yarn became a blanket that weighed at least ten pounds and was filled with unsightly holes and loose ends. Most users are great and very helpful, but just reading those replies of a few folks who know everything and expect others to know also, feels like a slap in the face when you’re the one asking. I’m afraid they may deter new knitters from continuing to learn.

Ribbed for Him and Her Messy Bun Optional Hat

Once you are in the wonderful world of Ravelry, it becomes an amazing resource for knitters and crocheters of all levels. Look up pattern sources (books, magazines, and websites) by using the patterns tab or by clicking on a book/magazine title on any pattern

or project. Once you have navigated to an individual source page you can look through all related patterns, projects, and discussions. Information in Ravelry is organized within a series of tabs. Some customization is available within the tabs (i.e. the ability to re-sort information contained in a tab, create sub-tabs, or change the level of detail displayed).

A lot of you have told me that you found it a bit intimidating, so let me share the easiest way to immediately fall in love with this platform. There’s an ‘add project’ button, and if you have a WIP you want to include, go ahead and click it. Begin by heading to the ‘my notebook’ tab, and clicking ‘projects’ from the drop-down menu. Our login screen is now still; when not logged in, you can press the play button (at the bottom left) to see the balloons and clouds animate, and pause it again whenever you like. We are currently conducting a readability survey and have sent it to specific groups of Ravelers with different visual needs.

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Where multiple languages are available, the app lets you choose a version to use – this can be changed at a later time if needed. You will need to log in using your Ravelry account to get the patterns or sign up if you don’t have an account already. It’s free to set up a Ravelry account and really quick and simple to do. Ravelgurumi provides a simple way to find and download amigurumi (soft toy) patterns on your iPhone or iPad to knit or crochet. MAKE the pattern and keep track of your progress using the row counter. With knitCompanion you can focus on your knitting instead of juggling row trackers, counters, and “at the same time“ instructions.

STASH You can import your stash from Ravelry and assign it to your project. Below, you will find a directory

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49 iPhone and Android apps that work with Ravelry. Whether you’ve never used Ravelry before, or would like to learn more about its many functions, our expert guide will help you get the most out of this resource. She wrote the first line of code in October of 2006 and she wrote the latest line of code this week.

How to Join the Ravelry Knitting Community

Please share the love by leaving a review on the App Store and contact me by email with any questions or concerns. The Ravelry connection keeps your photos and project status up-to-date automatically. ICloud sync allows you to work on your iPhone when you’re out and about, or enjoy the larger space of your iPad when it’s available.

The site was in beta through early 2010, and new features and enhancements are still added frequently. Often these features and enhancements are driven by the community. Even in its earliest periods, hand knitting had a sociopolitical bent, as the proletariat toiled to make luxury garments for European royalty.

If you’ve got a tub of single skeins waiting for that perfect one-skein pattern, you could tag each of these yarns ‘single skein’. When the perfect pattern appears, search by this tag to find exactly which yarn to use. Another tag option could be ‘gifts’, for yarns you plan to gift with.

This crochet pocket shawl is the second most popular of my Ravelry free crochet patterns. You can get the clues free on my site to complete the project or you can purchase the ad-free PDF through Ravelry. If you’re using a pattern, select that option, and enter the pattern name. It’s possible that pattern is already on Ravelry, in which case, your project will be linked to that pattern. If you didn’t use a pattern, or used one independent from Ravelry, those are options, too. We created a new form for feedback about Ravelry’s new look; you can fill it out here!

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