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It's easy! You can manage your store right through your designer profile on Ravelry, check out your sales charts and other statistics, and get lots of help from Ravelry and other designers in the Ravelry Shopkeepers group. Designers: why would you want to use Ravelry to sell your patterns? The designer gets most of the bucks! Supporting each other helps to keep our industry growing.

#Ravelry patterns pdf#

You get pattern updates! If a designer finds errata in a pattern that you purchased, they can easily update the pattern with the new, corrected PDF and send out an email with a link to download the new PDF (the PDF in your library will also be updated)! Not only do you never have to remember where you saved your PDF file, but the pattern will also show up if you choose the "in my library" filter when you are looking for patterns using the Ravelry advanced search: There is the handy Ravelry library! Ravelry pattern purchases are stored in the "PDFs" tab of your Ravelry library and available for you to download at any time. Knitters and Crocheters: why would you want to buy patterns on Ravelry? We are very proud of our pattern sales service and are lucky to have received such great feedback from designers and Ravelry users - feedback that has helped us to build cool features for everyone. The pattern is Oceane, by Kristeen Griffin-Grimes ( frenchgirlknits), and it was purchased by Raveler michelledevon. Track your needle inventory, finished projects, count your Ravelry friends.A few minutes ago we hit a huge milestone on Ravery: 100,000 patterns sold using our Ravelry pattern sales service. ("All those?" What am I implying? That some of us have a lot?) Then you can click on the picture of the magazine, and see all the patterns that are in there.Īnd of course, that's just the beginning.

Go to the library, click on magazine tab, and add all those crafting magazines.

If you have a lot of yarn (not that I, ehem, have very much yarn, I'm quite, um, frugal, no really) you can keep a handle on what you've got by adding it to your stash.

When you see a pattern, yarn, or project you like and want to bookmark or applaud, click the Add to faves button.

This is the section of Ravelry that helps you organize, and here are a few of the things you can do there: When you see a pattern that you like, click on the designer's name, see everything else they've designed. You can see new ones, popular ones, or search for them.

To connect with groups in your area, go to Find groups by location.

Either just start browsing, or if you like, check out the Tour.

If you haven't already, sign up for membership. That's just a short list, it does so much more. In the Pattern search, you can fine tune your next project by specifying how much yarn you have for the project, how easy you want it to be, techniques you'd like to use, etc.

Helps crafters find suitable patterns.

That yarn's info (yardage, fiber content, etc) will likely be in the Ravelry yarn database. Bought a new skein of yarn? Add it to your stash.

Provides targeted advertising space for designers, spinners, yarn stores, crafters.

Ravelry makes this easy and charges a small sales-based fee.

Allows self-publishing designers to sell their patterns online.

Finished a project? Upload a photo and post your comments.

Communicates designers' and crafters' experiences with materials and patterns.

Make friends, join groups, participate in forums.

Connects knitters and crocheters with each other.For more technical chit chat, here's an interview with Casey. A technical tidbit: It's a Ruby on Rails system.So the membership has tripled in less than 2 years. At this point (March 4, 2011) there are 1,259,174 users, and at any point in the day there are usually over 3,000 users logged in.

#Ravelry patterns free#

You need to log in to participate, and membership is free.It's a community-driven website for knitters, crocheters, yarn producers, knitwear designers.A non-technical tidbit: they're adorable.Started May 2007 by wife and husband team, Jessica and Casey Forbes.I still have to spell it out, no, not revelry, or raverly, r-a-v-e-l-ry. Heck, a lot of people avoid all online social networking sites because of their addictive qualities. Ravelry has become such a household word for knitters -like other web words Google, Facebook, Tweet- that I sometimes forget that not all knitters use the internet.