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• For Yarn Adopters - How to Enter Yarn in Ravelry
  … (check eBay or Amazon) Pat’s Pocketbook Guide of Interchangeable Yarns (check eBay) Knitters of Australia Catalog Yarn Utilities Standard Yarn Weight System Yarn Thickness Chart - a visual guide for spinners and knitters Yarn Weight References Ravelry Standard Yarn Weights Yarn Forward Tension Guide Yarn Thickness - Length Standards and Counts Master Yarn Chart - Handwoven Magazine/Weaving Today Fiber References International Textile Fiber Abbreviations* Fabric …
• editing style guide
  … , such as a pattern formula, then leave this field blank and make a note that the pattern can be adapted to any yarn weight and gauge. In the case of a pattern that does not recommend any specific yarn but includes the yarn weight, put the yarn weight in the drop down field. You may also identify the yarn weight in the Notes. Needle/Hook Field This field identifies the needle(s) and/or hook(s) sizes specified by the pattern. Use the drop down menu to select the size needle or hook specified …
• Contributions: adding patterns or yarns
  … , check to see if there is a designer name used for that publication or company on other patterns. Ask in the Ravelry Editors group if you need help! Suggested Yarn – This field is for the actual yarn name so it can link to a yarn in the database. Don’t put fiber content, color, description, weight, or quantity here. Put the yarn weight in the yarn weight field and the rest in the notes. Yardage – If there is one number, put it in the first box and leave the second blank. If there is a range …
• Thursday Tip: Filter your Stash
  … . 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. Additionally, you can click advanced search at the bottom of the drop down for even more stash searching …
• Yarn database information
  … there more thread categories and why isn’t there more crochet gauge information? Space considerations led to a consensus that a single thread category would probably do for the dropdown and was better than lumping those distinctive fibers into the cobweb and lace yarn weights. The sub-categories should be in the notes. Crochet gauge also was difficult to shoehorn into the little data entry boxes. First off, the stitch names vary in different parts of the world (an American’s SC is a Briton’s DC …
• Yarnies
  … separately: one-of-a-kind entries should not be created. It is very important to fill in as many of the fields as possible for your yarn. Ravelers who are interested in your yarns need to know the skein weight, yardage, gauge, yarn weight, recommended needle size and fiber content of your yarn to make an informed decision. Filling in these fields also helps your yarn come up in searches. Detailed laundering instructions and other information can be added in the notes. We now have a new …
• Thursday Tip: Faves, Queue, Library, Shopping Cart
  … Jess’ queue to see a beautifully organized long queue in use. The print button on your queue page will prepare a printer-friendly list for you, with the yarn, weight, yardage, and gauge suggested in the patterns along with information you’ve added like yarns you wish to use, and notes. This is incredibly handy if you are going to a yarn shop, fiber event, or festival! Library Your Ravelry library exists to track patterns that you own – both individual patterns and ones that are in books or …
• Thursday Tip: Advanced Search Beyond Patterns
  … , and the pattern browser and advanced search (linked on the top left of our patterns tab) is without a doubt our most popular feature. Using our advanced search, you can filter your pattern search with the 239 filter options for everything from yarn weight to design attributes. But did you know that across the top of the screen in the advanced search, we have advanced searches for things other than patterns as well, with their own filters and sort options to help you find exactly what you …
• Tip: Getting more out of the project gallery
  … ", choose "Made by friends" or "Made by group members" The projects on this tab are sorted from newest to oldest. You can try different sorts (like "most favorites first") if you click through to "advanced search". Summarize the yarn weight and yardage that people have used If you click "advanced search", the sidebar will provide you with totals: What does "search inside projects" search for? You can use the search box to find matching text in the project name …
• Notebook: Queue
  … can print your queue by clicking the printer icon at the right side of the page: This will prepare a printer-friendly file of your queue, including the yarn, weight, yardage, and gauge suggested in the pattern along with any yarn you’ve indicated you wish to use and any note you have added to the queue entry, and the first photo on the pattern page. Yarns you have queued do not appear in the print file, only patterns. If you wish to only print a certain section of your queue, set those …
• Eye Candy: Made with Thread
  myrawood’s Modern Irish Crochet Burgandy Bliss Today’s Eye Candy features recently completed projects made with thread – the smallest weight you can filter for in our yarn weight filters. I am just blown away by the intricate beauty of these doilies: SaturatedLifeCro’s Primrose doily by Grace Fearon, myaoo’s Flower Basket – Calla Lily, and carfieldma’s Eichenlaub And I really love how the tiny gauge makes for wonderfully detailed toys and ornaments: Crochetedbytess’ Baby Rattle, …
• Pattern edit/Anleitungen bearbeiten
  … and Needles Crochet? Wenn die Anleitung zum größten Teil gehäkelt wird (nicht nur eine Reihe Krebsmaschen um den Halsausschnitt), dann wird hier ein Häkchen gesetzt. Yarn weight Die Garnstärken werden erklärt, wenn man auf den lila Kuller klickt. Bei den meisten Garnen in der Ravelry-Datenbank steht die Garnstärke schon dabei. Yarn Name des Garns, das in der Anleitung angegeben ist. Wenn man auf das graue Link-Icon klickt, erscheint eine Liste mit Garnen, daraus das richtige auswählen und …
• Community Eye Candy: Better Together
  … Eye Candy post. I’m really excited to share some of these beauties with you today. I really love the effect of different colors plus different yarn weights in al these projects! Clockwise from top left: KimDenise’s Fifty Grifty, SpringerB6’s Restekiste – two teddy bears, and apedawn’s Frostline. These sweaters are all gorgeous pairings of different yarn weights. procleusmatic’s northern beauty (why yes, I would like to start adding a luscious cuff edging to all my sweaters!), iikku’s True …
• general editing guidelines and a guide to setting up source pages
  … should not be added to Ravelry except by the designer of the original pattern to the original pattern entry, which means both have given permission for it. (Translations are derivative works and covered by copyright.) Duplicates for language, size, yarn weight, US/UK terms, collection/packs: See the pattern database rules page. Duplicates are not allowed. Pages for separate languages are not allowed. Pattern pages for single items and the same items in sets are not allowed. Some patterns are …
• Eye Candy: Laceweight Yarn
  … , all of which have been completed so far this month. Left: knittimo’s Dawn, Right: skripka-lisa’s Cardamon/Кардамон Left: mng’s Prairie Wedding, Right: devonnejoy’s Mixed Berries Mohair Scarf Left: PadreWayne’s Scottish Lichen Scarf, Right: Pinneguri’s Sykkelpuls(-vanter) Our Project Search is an easy way to find other projects made with specific weights of yarn – you can select the weight you’d like to see in the filters on the side, and even add more filters from the list. Enjoy!
• helpful hints on ravelry etiquette
  … that in addition to language barriers, other things may be misunderstood such as dates (write out the month to avoid confusion), times (include your time zone for time sensitive events), currencies, crafting terminology (“standard” terms for yarn weights, techniques, and stitches vary even within English-speaking communities), measurement units, and temperatures. ↩ “Calling out” means dragging a problem with someone out in the open to challenge, provoke, or insult. By “out of context”, we …
• Baby Surprise Jacket, pattern by Elizabeth Zimmermann. The Baby Surprise Jacket Group has compiled this wiki and offers help within the discussion area for your projects!
  … stitches cast on), the total body width (excluding the buttonbands) is 90 stitches (80 stitches if you don’t do the 10 stitches ‘diaper bump’ increase) By knitting to a gauge that makes 90 stitches (or 80) equal to the desired body width (using whatever yarn weight and needle size that allow you to produce that gauge), you can create the BSJ in the specific size needed. For the A-B-C-SJ pattern, you’ll adjust the stitch count and your gauge to suit. You will need the desired measurement of the …
• Notebook: Stash Section
  … & clear amounts added (highlight numbers, hit backspace or delete, click preview changes to do that, click confirm changes Stash Export As of January 2024, the stash export gives these fields: Brand, Yarn, Color family, Colorway, Color attributes, Weight, Grams/skein, Yards/skein, Meters/skein, Skeins, Total yards, Total meters Total grams, Remaining skeins, Remaining yards, Remaining meters, Remaining grams, Dye lot, Stored in, Purchase date, Price paid, Purchased at, Spinning project …
• October Ravelry craft-along round-up
  … These will then be donated to local charities to warm the hands of people in our community! crochet-alongs: Mystery 220 (More or Less) is hosting an October Mystery CAL starting October 2. Crochet a non-wearable item from 100-120 yards of cotton sport weight yarn. You may use 2, 4 or 5 colors. knit-alongs: Do Ewe Knit is hosting a Fall Pullover Along. Our Fall Knitalong will be relaxing top down pullovers, and you’ll get to choose which of us you’d like to knitalong with. Each of …
• Garn-sektionen/fanebladet
  … nedenfor. Hvis du virkelig er parat til at tilføje nyt garn til Ravelrys garndatabase, fint! Vi er glade for hjælpen, og her er så hvordan du gør: En måde er først at tilføje garnet til dit eget garnlager. Gå til dit garnlager. Klik “Add new yarn” (tilføj nyt garn). Herfra kan du enten vælge et (garn)mærke, som vil linke dette til en database side, eller du kan bare lade det være i dit garnlager. Hvis du vælger et mærke, vil du opdage at der dukker forslag op til det du forsøger …