If you are a knitter, crocheter and/or spinner you are probably a member of Raverly.com. This amazing Internet site began in 2007 by a knitter named Jess and her coder husband, Casey. There were lots of sites on the internet relating to knitting and crocheting, but Jess said (out loud) “wouldn’t it be great to have just one place online where you could find things related to knitting and crocheting?” And Casey, the code monkey (he calls himself that) went to work. In 10 years, the site has grown to over 7.3 million users from over 78 countries. After about 4 years, they started adding features and information relating to spinning, and in the last two years, weaving information features have been added.
If you have not heard of, or been a member of Ravlery, and want to, they have many tutorials and helpful blog posts to help you not only get started, but utilize this great site.
Once you join Ravelry (it’s free) the home page is full of information and places to go: If you are new to Ravelry, the help features and tutorials are excellent and very informative.
| At the top of the home page, the main areas of Ravelry are: Patterns: Mostly knit and crochet from this page Yarns: A huge searchable database of yarns People: The membership of Ravelry Groups: As there are approximately 40K groups on Ravelry, searching for those with, say, weaving, will return a mere 1,315 groups. Let me suggest, the “Warped Weavers”, “Weaver’s Café” and “Beginning Weavers” just to start. |
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Forums: Once you join a group, the Forums choice will have a page with all your groups on it. |
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The addition of weaving information/resources to Ravelry has only been within the last two years. Finding a weaving information takes just a couple more clicks than if you were looking for a knit or crochet pattern.
Some of the items above can easily translate to weaving, for example your stash can now include weaving cones of fiber. And you can create your weaving projects to keep track of your work.
| At this point in time Ravelry does not have a separate database for weaving drafts, but you can search the current projects posted by weaving members (approximately 90,000 weaving projects posted). From the main tabs, select PATTERNS and select the underscored “pattern browser” & “advanced search”. |  |
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Next, select PROJECTS and select the “weaving” box and enter. You can also select a type of project you are looking for, ie scarf (over 25K projects), placemats (436 projects) and/or towels (over 5,700 projects). |
You can see what other weavers have done, colors used and where to locate other drafts.
Your own project page will help you set up and remember your weaving projects. Here is an example of a weaving project page showing the information you can store.
There are many excellent resources on Ravelry, and it’s great to explore all that it has to offer.