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Thursday Tip: The Benefits of Stashing
… . You can find that skein of yarn when you want it
I spend more time than I care to admit tearing my house apart looking for something. I don’t have to do that with my yarns because I can find it when I need it, as I’ve recorded the yarn in my stash area, along with where it is stored.
If you click on “Bin #1″ there, you will see all of the yarns that you’ve stuffed in that bin. I mean, while you’re getting the bin out, you might as well get all of the yarn you need, right?
3. You can match …
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Tip: quickly add to stash from your phone!
… This past weekend I was putting some new yarn away in a bin and realized the bin was full of yarn that I hadn't put on Ravelry yet, so it's time for a big stash update. Using my phone and our mobile site's quick photo upload option, the process is so fast and easy that getting this bin of yarn into my Ravelry stash will only take a few minutes. You can check out the process below with the step-by-step screenshots or the video walkthrough at the bottom of this post.
From the home page of the …
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Thursday Tip: Filter your Stash
… are a lot of handy features to help you use the yarn that you have.
One feature is the filter option. You can do this at the top of your stash area by clicking the “filter your stash” drop down. Then, you can easily filter by weight. This is particularly helpful if you find a pattern you like and are looking for yarn to match with it. If you are looking for various weights of yarn, you can choose more than one weight.
You can also sort by fiber types and other attributes …
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Thursday Tip: Yarn Ideas from Your Stash
… that would work for that pattern. You can do this easily by clicking the “yarn ideas” tab on the pattern page!
If there are items in your stash that might work for the pattern, that will be indicated at the top of the page. You can click “show stashed items” there to see the items in your stash that might work.
Here are a few of mine that come up when you click that link. You will see the images and then information about how many skeins you have of each yarn …
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Thursday Tip: Making plans for stash and fiber
… projects you are going to do next.
Many of you use your queue to keep a list of patterns that you want to make, but did you know that you can also use your queue to list the stash or fiber that you want to use next?
To do this, use the "add to queue" button in your queue and click "use stash yarn" or "use stashed fiber". If you don't have a pattern in mind, you can use the pattern field to give your future project a title.
Here is an example from Mary-Heather's queue. She's earmarked some of …
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Stash Building Overview - classic Ravelry pre-2021
… are pristine and safe on your hard drive. Just export the edited photos to a convenient folder for uploading, and the changes will be saved there.
I export the photos I want to add to Ravelry from Picasa into a folder on my desktop. (I call it Stash, with subfolders named by date.) Once they’re uploaded, Picasa opens the folder in an explorer window.
Upload the photos to Flickr.
I open up the Flickr Uploadr (version 2.5 works best for me on XP—if you have Vista, you’ll need version 3.0 …
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Notebook: Stash Section
… the queue section of the notebook.
The weight that the pattern calls for is shown by default, though you can change the options. Once you’ve linked a yarn, it will show on the queue entry and the queue entry will have a link on the stash page.
Note: Multiple potential yarns can be linked to a queued pattern, and yarns can be linked to multiple potential patterns. You can delete the extra yarn entries from the queue entry whenever you wish or after you cast on for a project, whatever works best …
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How to add a Stash Knit Down 2008 button and/or widget to your blog
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`myStashDownBar = new StashDownBar("[your unit of stash measure]", [your starting stash size], [your goal stash size]);`<br>
`myStashDownBar.setAmountFinished([your amount knit down]);`<br>
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NOTEBOOK: STASH
… geht das, indem Du das Garn unter dem Reiter “yarns” ganz oben über das Suchfeld “search yarns” heraussuchst und anklickst. Dann klickst Du oben rechts auf den Button “add to stash” und voilà: das Garn ist in Deinem Stash eingetragen! Durch einen Klick auf den gelben Bleistift kannst Du dann weitere Informationen über Dein Garn eintragen (mehr dazu weiter unten).
Die andere Möglichkeit geht über Dein Notebook:
Gehe in Dein Notebook und klicke auf …
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Uploading to Projects and Stash from Your Mobile Device
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You will be directed to your camera roll to find the photo you wish to add. Click on it and choose “done”. You can click more than one if you would like to add more than one prior to clicking “done”. That will take you back to your project/stash entry and you can click the “upload” button.
You will see a little progress bar come up.
Once it is finished your image will show in the row of images near the top of the screen. If you didn’t want that image added after all, you can click …
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Spinning Features and fiber stash
… pencil roving, pin-drafted roving, punis, rolags, sliver, top commercial, top handcombed, and z-stripped. (Hover over a word to see if there’s a definition if you need help choosing.)
Tags You choose these just as you choose your own tags on projects or stashed yarn.
Fiber Content Choose from the dropdown or, if you don’t see what you want, type it in. Note that flax is the term for unspun linen.
Quantity Ounces is the default but grams is also available as a choice.
You can list a quantity …
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Adding photos to projects and stash with Flickr:
… add the photo
Click on the “edit photos” tab
Click the “search” or “refresh” button to bring up your photos, then drag the ones you want to the area indicated. You can see screen shots of this for projects here (the process is the same for stash).
You can also change the default dropdown for “all photosets” to select a particular set and/or you can search with tags (see screenshot).
Ravelry will bring in up to 100 photos. To make them easier to find, you may want to divide them up into sets …
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Flickr-Fotos zu Projekten und Stash-Einträgen oder zu Foren-Beiträgen hinzu fügen
… #8220;Ihre Fotos bei Suchvorgängen auf Sites Dritter mit Hilfe der API ausblenden?” nicht gesetzt sein.
Wenn Du diese beiden Häkchen entfernt und die Einstellungen gespeichert hast, versuche nochmal, ein Foto zu einem Projekt oder einem Stash-Eintrag hinzu zu fügen. Sobald Du ein Foto hinzugefügt hast, sollte die Flickr ID in Deinem Ravelry-Profil zu einem klickbaren Link zu Deinem Flickr-Account werden.
Solange dieser Link nicht klickbar ist, stimmt etwas mit Deinen Flickr-Einstellungen …
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Notebook: projects, stash, queue, handspun, favorites, library
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Your notebook is a place for you to keep information such as what you’ve made (projects); what you find interesting or inspiring (favorites) or plan to make (queue); and what patterns, yarns, and tools you have to make it with (library, stash, handspun, tools).
Other Ravelers who are logged in can browse through but not edit your pages. Some information is private, such as yarn cost. See the projects area to learn about making projects visible to others who aren’t logged in.
Your profile …
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Uploading to Projects and Stash Directly from Your Computer
… fiber/handspun
Everyone has this free option; it was added as a standard Ravelry feature in the fall of 2008. You can also upload directly from your mobile device.
Here’s how…
On the Photos tab of your Project or Stash item, choose the upload from computer tab at the bottom of the screen:
Then click the “select file to upload” link to browse for the image file:
Once you have selected the file from your hard drive, click the upload button and wait for it to upload …
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Tips on adding your projects and stash to Ravelry
category: Contributing
Tips on adding your projects and stash to Ravelry
what? No help here yet? Sorry! For now, there are two project/stash related videos on the help tab. Give those a try!
for flickr problems, see this page
for help with project notes or forum posts, see this page
for editing patterns or yarns, see this page
for tips on taking good pictures, see this page
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Tip: 3 Things to do on Ravelry in the New Year
… ideas about a few simple things you could do in 2017, if you haven’t already, that could make your Ravelry experience more useful, friendly, and fun!
1. Organize your stash… and add it to Ravelry, too!
We know that the thought of getting your whole stash updated and on Ravelry can be daunting, but we promise: it’s so useful! When you add your stash to Ravelry, you’ll have a very convenient place to reference exactly what you own, and where you’ve stored it (there’s a field for that in your …
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Ravelry Resolutions
… you, but you don't know where to begin, we have some ideas about a few simple things you can try that will make your Ravelry experience more useful, friendly, and fun!
1. Add your stash to Ravelry!
We know that the thought of getting your whole stash updated and on Ravelry can be daunting, but we promise: it’s so useful! When you add your stash to Ravelry, you’ll have a very convenient place to reference exactly what you own, and where you’ve stored it (there’s a field for that in your …
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Tip: Use #ravelry to Add Photos from Instagram
… you to the photos tab of that entry so you can rearrange the order of your pictures there if you like.
Quick Note
The #ravelry hashtag will only work with newly added photos. If you want to add older Instagram pics to your Ravelry projects or stash entries, you can do that through the photos tab when you connect your Instagram account as described above. I have a step-by-step blog post about connecting your Instagram account here if you’d like more details.
We hope our users who are also on …
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Tip: Organize Your Sweater Dreams!
… Ravelry feature to organize the sweater quantities of yarn I don’t yet have plans for: bundles!
I made a bundle called Future Sweaters, to which I’ve added all of my sweater quantities of yarn. It’s one of my most practical bundles and makes it really easy to find stashed yarns I want to use when I am ready to start a new sweater project, or when I just want to think about what type of sweater I’d like to make next.
If you’d like to make a similar bundle, you can do it in a couple of ways …