This was a talk I gave at the October 28, 2017 meeting of the NSW Hand Weavers and Spinners Guild.

1. ALL ABOUT RAVELRY
Where knitters spinners & weavers meet online
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2. AGENDA
➤ What’s Ravelry? Why should I care?
➤ General tour of Ravelry features
➤ Updating your profile
➤ Adding your first project
➤ Uploading photos
➤ Downloading free and paid patterns
➤ Joining groups and using the forums
➤ Tips and tricks from your fellow knitters

3. WHAT’S RAVELRY
ALL ABOUT ANYWAY?

4. SOME NUMBERS
➤ 7.4 million registered users (as of last night)
➤ Nearly 17 million projects have been recorded - including
90,000 weaving projects!
➤ 463,000 knitting patterns & 250,000 crochet patterns
catalogued, around one-third of which are FREE
➤ 318,000 patterns available to be purchased and downloaded
from Ravelry directly
➤ 40,000 knitting designers and 22,000 crochet designers
represented
➤ 119,000 different yarns catalogued

5. RAVELRY HISTORY

7. YOU’VE GOT A
RAVELRY ACCOUNT
Now what?
(If not - http://goo.gl/GEP6vC)

8. YOUR PROFILE

12. ADDING A PROJECT

17. ADDING PHOTOS

18. “UPLOAD FROM COMPUTER”

19. “UPLOAD FROM INSTAGRAM”

20. GOOGLE PHOTOS
➤ http://photos.google.com
➤ Free to join and upload an
unlimited number of photos
➤ Desktop and mobile apps for
uploading
➤ Easily links to your Ravelry
account!

23. FLICKR
➤ http://www.flickr.com
➤ Free to join and upload up to
1TB of photos (that’s
500,000!)
➤ Desktop and mobile apps for
uploading
➤ Easily links to your Ravelry
account!

26. “UPLOAD FROM URL”

27. HOW TO GET AN IMAGE URL

28. MOBILE APPLICATIONS
m.ravelry.com Ravulous - Android Wooly - iOS Stash2Go - iOS

29. REORDERING, RE-CENTERING, AND REMOVING
➤ Click and drag photos to reorder them
➤ Click and drag the icon to re-center
➤ Click the icon to add or edit a caption
➤ Click the icon to remove an image

32. YOUR PROJECTS AND NOTES MAKE RAVELRY BETTER

33. SHARING YOUR PROJECT

34. SHARING YOUR PROJECT
Your public profile: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/username/

35. FOR SPINNERS

36. FIBRE STASH

37. FIBRE STASH - ADDING STASH

38. FIBRE STASH - ADDING STASH

40. FIBRE STASH -> YARN

41. HANDSPUN

42. HANDSPUN STASH

43. SEARCH HANDSPUN

44. MORE PERSONAL TOOLS

45. QUEUE

46. FAVOURITES

47. FAVOURITES - HOW TO ADD
Patterns Yarns
Projects Designers
Forum post
LYS
Ad

48. FAVOURITES - WISH LIST

49. FAVOURITES - WISH LIST

50. LIBRARY

51. LIBRARY - RAVELRY PATTERNS

52. BUT HOW DO WE FIND
PATTERNS?

61. PATTERN VIEWING HISTORY
➤ Linked from Patterns page
- http://www.ravelry.com/
patterns/history
➤ Shows every pattern you
looked at and when
➤ Searchable!

62. PEOPLE…
7+ MILLION OF ‘EM

63. FRIENDS AND THEIR ACTIVITY

65. PROFILE PAGE

66. UGH

67. FORUMS

69. USEFUL STUFF IN SETTINGS

70. HOW TO START A TOPIC

71. HOW TO REPLY TO A TOPIC

72. POSTING A PHOTO FROM THE WEB
➤ Click on the icon
➤ Paste in a URL from a blog or
some other website
➤ Customise the “Image title”
text and leave the rest

73. POSTING A PHOTO FROM A PROJECT OR STASH
➤ Click on the icon
➤ Select the second option -
“Use a project or stash photo”
➤ Choose a photo and confirm
➤ Leave the text!

74. POSTING A PHOTO BY UPLOAD OR EMAIL - EXTRAS

75. MAGIC LINKS - HOW TO DO IT

76. MAGIC LINKS - NOW EVEN MORE MAGICAL!

77. MAGIC LINKS - THE END RESULT

78. OTHER TEXT EDITOR FUNCTIONS
1. Make things bold or italics
2. Link to websites
3. Quote text for a reply
4. Add an image
5. Add a webcam image
6. Add a video
7. Create a numbered list
8. Create a bulleted list
9. Create a heading
10.Undo and redo
11.Preview your post
12.Help!
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79. SEARCH

82. GROUPS

84. OFFICIAL KNITTERS GUILD NSW GROUP

86. TIPS & TRICKS
AND QUESTIONS

87. THANK YOU!
- Kris
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