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Tip: Find Patterns from Local Designers
… you to find yarn from local yarn companies, spinners, and dyers. We’ve now added a similar feature in the Advanced Pattern Search that will help you find patterns from local designers!
Designers can link their Ravelry profiles to their designer pages, and if you have a location set in your Ravelry profile, you can search for patterns that have been designed by Ravelers near you. The search filter is at the bottom of the filters list on the left, in the “more search options” box, and it’s called …
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Tip: Subscribe to Your Favorite Designers
… ’s page and use the add to favorites button to add them to your favorites.
Next, visit the favorites section of your notebook. From there you’ll filter down to your favorite designers and use the advanced search link to go to a search for just their patterns.
Finally, you create a new saved search and make sure to select the subscribe checkbox.
And that’s it! From then on you’ll receive notifications of new results in that saved search – there will be a little blue dot next to the magnifying …
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I'm a designer or publisher, how do I post a pattern for free or sale?
If you are a designer, you can find full instructions for getting started link texthere.
If you are a publisher, you can email us to have your pro account connected to patterns you can make available. Please include the name of the pattern source (shown on the pattern page under “published in”) or a pattern that you need connected to you as well as the name on your pro account, if you have one. If you don’t yet have a pattern in the database, please add one first by going to your notebook tab …
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Getting started as a designer
… for others to use - whether in a printed book, on your blog, or right here on Ravelry - you may add your patterns to the Ravelry database so that other users can find them in pattern searches and link the projects they make with your pattern to your design!
We do ask that you don’t list a pattern in the database before it is available (either as a Ravelry Download, or via a link to elsewhere online, or in a publication of some kind). This includes creating a page for a pattern that is still in …
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Design Contest Update
A big thank you to everyone who submitted designs to our contest! We had such a large response to our design contest that we won’t be able to open voting on May 7th as we had originally planned. We’re working as fast as we can to go through all of the submissions and make sure they meet the guidelines. Then, we’ll be setting up a voting system to make it easier for everyone to vote on the design they like the best! We’ll update you when voting becomes available. Thanks again to all who submitted …
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Designer Quick Start Guide selling patterns
… added an entry for an unpublished pattern.
More on filling out the pattern form
Here’s a thread that explains the source/published in field for pattern pages.
How to link tester projects before a pattern is published
Ravelry has a feature to allow designers to give a code to pattern testers so they can link projects to a pattern that is not yet published (this is sometimes called a “tester code” in pattern testing groups). Please do not publish a pattern page for a pattern that is in …
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List of Designers who provide limited licenses with their patterns.
… to provide a Limited License with their patterns.
Crafters are given the priviledge of making a specified number of items from a given pattern to sell.
Below is a list of Designers with links to their designs as well as the extent of their Licenses.
Designers ~ Links ~ License Limit
Guernseygal ~ Ravelry ~ 12
litlnemo ~ blog ~ Ravelry ~ 20
stitches99 ~ Etsy ~ 12
chrissyg ~ Webpage ~ Ravelry ~ Group ~ no limit on GYW patterns
Freckle432
farm-witch
MamaBear ~ Blog ~ Ravelry ~ >20 …
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Follow your Favorite Designers
… 't want to miss, adding them to your Ravelry favorites gives you easy ways to follow them and make sure you see their latest designs.
Your Favorite Designers
Adding designer Jennifer Burke to Ravelry favoritesFirst, you'll want to add the designer to your Ravelry favorites using the save in favorites button on their designer profile page.
Once the designer is in your Ravelry favorites, whenever they publish a new pattern you'll see it in your Pattern Highlights section on the main Patterns …
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Search Designers by Country
… country filter being applied by tapping on the filter suggestion that
appears under the search bar after typing in the country name Ukraine.
If you prefer to manually select the filters as you browse, you'll find the Designer country filter
at the bottom of our Advanced Search filters in the
more search options section.
With the country
selected, you can apply any of our other filters and sorts to refine your search even further.
Screenshot of Ravelry …
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Helpful Details for Designers
… the pattern as “for more information, click here.” It is a bit startling to have a download automatically start if you are clicking for more information, and can take far too long for some users. Also, many PDFs are free patterns from designers hosted on their blogs. Designers deserve to have the eyeball time of people actually going to the blog. Although it does not use up extra bandwidth, it is a faux pas, just like hotlinking to an image. It also avoids the appearance that Ravelry is hosting …
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Community Eye Candy: Designers' picks
… 's Prism, JimiKnits' Picacho Peak, and Kaffee-Tante's Wolfgangsee.
knotsewcute's Mostly Harmless, Patrick-Zein's Mittens in Korsnäs style, and FroskeMari's Loppa.
lv2knit's OMG (Oh, Mother Goose!), SariMor's Crofthoose Hat, and
amiijjang's ...a hint of summer.
Designers: you've probably already seen and tried this, but if you zoom in on any project photo you will see a link that says " send photo request: add as a featured photo". Click this link and we will send a message to the …
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Search Help with searches for patterns, yarns, sources, designers, people, ;+
… You can click on any of the results to get to them.
You can also reach any of the advanced searches or your saved searches through the links found in the magnifying glass tab.
Ignoring
The option to hide a specific pattern or patterns by that designer is found on the 3 dot menu under each pattern name and picture on the search results page. They are marked by little ghost symbols. Look for ‘hidden from searches’ in the My Notebook search filter later to un-ignore those.
If you ignore a …
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Ravelry Pattern Downloads For Designers
Ravelry Pattern Downloads For Designers
This page’s content has been superceeded. Please see the new page
Ravelry Free Pattern Downloads, for patterns to be offered free
Ravelry Pattern store, for patterns to be offered for sale
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A Ravelry Celebration Design Contest!
… a project bag, which will be available for sale in the Ravelry Mini-Mart as soon as it can be printed following the competition. The bags dimensions are 12”W x 15”H and the print area is 9”W x 11”H.
The design will be a 3 color screenprint and should be available in a high resolution file, preferably in vector art format but pdf files are also acceptable. Black and white do count as colors for the purpose of this contest. The only exception to the 3 color restriction is …
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Designer Quick Start Guide selling patterns
… already in the Ravelry database and you would like to connect them to your Ravelry profile, please email MH with your username and a link to the Ravelry page of one of your patterns - she’ll be happy to help!
I’m a publisher: how can I sell patterns designed by others?
Publishers, would you like to offer your patterns and books as Ravelry downloads? We can help! Please email Mary Heather - she will be happy to set you up!
For the first pattern, in Contributions, use the option for a pattern …
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Designer
… Fleece Artist mailto:kathryn@fleeceartist.com
Kim Dolce - Dolce Handknits
Kim Hargreaves
Leigh Radford
Louisa Harding Archived
Lucy Neatby
Maggie Pace
Marianne Isager
Miriam Felton - MimKnits
Nora Bellows - Noni Designs
Patti Pierce Stone
Sarah Dallas - Sarah Dallas Knitting
Sheera Designs
Sivia Harding
Stefanie Japel - Fitted Knits
Stefanie Japel - Glam Knits - Lace Panel Tunic
Stitch Diva - Jennifer Hansen
Tess Dawson
Teva Durham - Loop-d-Loop
Vivian Høxbro
Woolly Wormhead …
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N/A (Now included in Designer Resources)
This page has now been combined with DesignerResources and is no longer in use. If you spot a link to it anywhere, please change it to the link above. Thanks!
Deadlines for magazine and online design submissions
By date, 2009
February 09 Feb 1—Knitty.com, summer 09 Feb 9—Interweave, holiday gifts 09 Feb 20—Twist Collective, fall 09
March 09 March 1—Knotions, summer 09 March 4—Interweave Crochet, Winter 09 March 15—Classic Elite Yarns, Spring/Summer 2010 March 16—Interweave Knits, Winter 09
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Ravelry Design Contest – Final Round
… entirely on your selections, and you can now vote in the final round of the contest. Voting will be open until Monday, May 21st at Midnight EST. You can only vote for one design.
Vote now at http://www.ravelry.com/contests/bag
Congratulations to all of the finalists and thanks to each person who took the time to submit a design! This contest would not have been nearly as much fun without each of your submissions.
This is the final round in the contest, and the winner will have their …
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Erste Schritte für Ravelry Designer
… Datenbank
Die Anforderungen an Anleitungen in der Ravelry Datenbank in der Ravelry Datenbank bitte beachten.
Deine Anleitungen zu Ravelry hinfügen: eine praktische Anleitung dazu
Anleitung selber in die Anleitungsdatenbank einpflegen (so geht’s)
Das Formular zum Anlegen einer Anleitung
Deinen “Pattern Store” bearbeiten
Nächste Schritte & Hilfe für Designer, die mit ihren Anleitungen schon verlinkt sind: Ravelry Downloads, eBooks, und hilfreiche Gruppen!
Ein e-Book anlegen - so gehts!
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Ravelry Design Contest – Voting is Open!
… at http://www.ravelry.com/contests/bag
Each Raveler will get one vote. Since there are so many submissions, there will be another round of voting to select the final project bag design. We will announce the next round after we process the results from this one.
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a design! We had a great response from Ravelers of all ages and are looking forward to seeing which ones are your favorites! If you have questions or comments about the contest, you can …