Just thought maybe this sub would relate. At the ripe old age of 34, I have a lot of “grandma” clothes. I guess anything hand-knit looks like something a grandma would wear?
People are insane on Ravelry. So many people seem to have no other social media experience outside of Ravelry and just. dont. get. it.
I've just been told I'm wrong, twice when recounting my own experience. What the? I recounted on a thread that 've had my Paypal account hacked twice. First time someone in New York booked some plane tickets to Amsterdam. First class thanks very much. And Paypal was useless, my bank had to do all the work. Second time, someone in the UK signed up to a betting app. I live in Melbourne by the way, so I really dont see how I could have inadvertantly given my password and email address to these people as someone helpful gently suggested.
But apparently, that cant happen on Paypal, so I must be mistaken. There's even a few disagrees! What exactly are you disagreeing with? My experience? Did I get that bit wrong?
Five minutes later, I'm talking about the Brenda A Bell punchcard generator and a problem I had with it whilst trying to get a Cricut machine to make punchcards for my knitting machine. Apparently one lady does not appreciate my 'villification' of Brenda's program. Double WTF? I'm recounting an experience, that's a heck of a long way from villification! And I got a disagree for that too.
And people are SO literal. Have a whinge about pricey yarn and you're inundated with earnest, helpful suggestions about visiting yarnsub.com and how you dont have to use the suggested yarn. No shit Sherlock, dont you know a whinge when you hear it?
I think I'm done. Its MUCH more fun here!
My Ravelry user name is Andrea. It's my own name, and because I joined up pretty early on no one else had decided to use it, so I called dibs.
Unfortunately, I get messages from knitters complaining about patterns. I'm not Andrea Mowry. I'm a knitter in Australia, not a knitwear designer in the USA.
For fucks sake, she doesn't even use the name Andrea herself!
Twice in the last two days, links to pattern pages from non-Ravelry (i.e Etsy and Payhip) sources have been deleted by the mods (see edit below).
While it is understandable that we don't want the community to be spammed with advertising, the rules state that one designer post per week is allowed. There is even a flair for "Designer FO". However that designer is only allowed to link to Ravelry it seems.
Considering the inaccessible redesign of Ravelry, and the outrageous way that the Ravelry owners have treated people who made legitimate accessibility complaints, there are many users who either cannot use Ravelry or refuse to use it on ethical grounds.
As such, only allowing Ravelry links and deleting links to other sites like Etsy, Payhip, Gumroad, LoveCrafts or blogs is discriminatory against both designers and users.
I am appealing to the mod team to change this rule and stop deleting non-Ravelry links, for both designers and users.
EDIT - Editing my post to clarify that it is unclear whether those links were deleted by mods or filtered out automatically or reported by users. Unfortunately a lot of different reasons have been presented in this thread and it's not clear to me right now what mechanism is causing this.
If you’ve (me) been looking for this pattern but it hasn’t been available for the past year, then heads up it’s back on Ravelry
As a former software developer, I know this would be super easy to do, and it drives me bananas that it is not there!
Edit: I should have said "at the bottom of the project page".
When a pattern calls for sport weight, but the actual needed yarn is fingering. Sport weight can mean different things in different places.
My mitten was turning out far too large even though close to gauge.
Checked other projects. Just 30 and under 10 completed pairs of mittens and those with notes used fingering. Others used 60 instead of 80 stitches. One person noted that 80 would be too big based on their own gauge.
It was something I wanted to knit for a long time, and it was so disappointing. Next time I will look at other posted projects and notes on Ravelry.
Hi all,
I have been trying to figure this out and am a bit frustrated. I am working on the Snowberry Pullover by Martin Storey. The left sleeve is where I have some difficulties. The sleeve starts with 28sts and should be increased to 36. No problem. What I do not understand is how the row increases are worked. "Inc 1sts at each end of 5th row, then on 1 foll 6th rows, then 2 foll 8th rows, then 0 foll 10th rows." I don't understand the plural for row in this part of the pattern. Then it says to work 3 rows ending with RS facing for next row. Even rows are WS and odd rows are RS so I'm not sure how you could end on an WS row if after working through these would lead to an odd number. Following that, it says that 30 rows of the stripe sequence should have been worked (striped sequence is worked over 6 rows meaning that there should be 5 repeats). Not sure where that 30 comes from if they have only given instruction for (theoretically) 13 rows. I know there is something simple that I am missing for it all to make sense, but I just don't see it. Thanks in advance for any help.
To elaborate: look at people’s pottery works and classify by category (e.g Mugs, Plates) or glaze or shape.
Hi all. I'm returning to sewing after a 20 year hiatus. Thrilled to be back at it again and have managed to sew a few small things (pillow cases, napkins, and most recently, PJs).
I'm primarily a knitter and have always relied on Ravelry as my defacto knitting community. Is there something like that out there for sewers to access all sorts of free patterns and learn new techniques?
Thanks in advance and for all the sewing inspiration from the posts here 🙂
I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered before. Recently it seems like the top patterns on Ravelry will be oversaturated with one particular designer. There will be a couple patterns from individuals, but then 20 or 30 patterns from the same designer.
Is this a problem with my ravelry page or have other people noticed this? Do I need to tweak something to make it more eclectic again?
If you, like me, cannot use ravelry, and get frustrated with all your google searches coming back with results linking to ravelry you can add this simple command to your search -site:ravelry.com
For example: I just searched "knitting -site:ravelry.com"
EDIT: If you are wondering why I (and many others) cannot use Ravelry follow this link and you'll get an extensive round up of the whole saga.
Is any one having trouble with ravelry??? I couldn’t load the pattern search page and logged out accidentally and now I can’t even log in. Any one else having issues? I am so frustrated I can’t even get to the email page to ask any one about it.
I will add the ravelry link it in the comments, eternally grateful if someone could help me understand how to get it
So I'm adding some yarn to my yarn stash on ravelry, and after adding some yarn that is marked as 3 Light on the yarn label, in the ravelry library it is marked as sports weight. If it was sports weight I'm pretty sure the yarn label would say 2 Fine, so I'm pretty confused. It also labeled my super thin yarn as bulky. Anyone else encountered this or am I doing something wrong or missing something?
Update: the 3 Light one seems to be a mistake with the yarn label since the wpi makes it a sports weight yarn. But this yarn is definitely not bulky. I double checked and it has more than 7 wpi.
Okay, so, I've been crocheting for over a year now and I've just gotten into the community more. I started with reddit and I've been watching a lot of crochet on Youtube but everywhere I turn, I hear about Ravelry. So, I tried going on the website and I have no idea how to work it. Could anyone help me? I feel like it's a really big resource for crocheters that I haven't managed t figure out.
