Welcome to Ravelry!
Here is a quick introduction:
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The "project" section of your notebook is a place for you to organize and share your knitting and crochet projects.
Take a look at Jess' project notebook or click "projects" under my notebook to begin adding projects of your own.
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Click the patterns tab to search Ravelry's database of pattern information and browse through projects that were made from those patterns.
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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.
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Every yarn has its own page on Ravelry. 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.
To try this out, use the yarns tab to search and find a yarn, then click the projects tab on an individual yarn page.
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There are thousands of special interest groups on Ravelry. If you are interested in a particular topic (not necessarily knitting/crochet related!), region or event, click the groups tab to search for groups that match your interests.
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Use the people tab to find other Ravelry users.