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Is Ravelry safe?
Ravelry has a consumer rating of 3.21 stars from 500 reviews indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Consumers satisfied with Ravelry most frequently mention fiber arts, white supremacy and social media.
What is happening to Ravelry?
So what happens now? It’s clear Ravelry is not currently interested in making more changes to support people who say the site is now unusable, leaving them needing to find alternatives (I’ve shared a post here with some information; there are even more details and options on this post from WIP Insanity.
Who owns Ravelry?
Ravelry, LLC
Ravelry/Owners
Who started Ravelry?
Ravelry was founded by husband-and-wife team Casey and Jessica Forbes in 2007. It soon became a beloved website among knitters and other fiber artists, and its users formed many offshoot communities and subgroups that had nothing to do with knitting.
Is there an alternative to Ravelry?
There’s another new site in the works called ribblr: website | Instagram (contains more info) Yarn Database has searches for designers, yarn, and fibre, and the ability to save favourites, with no surprise Ravelry links. Patternosity describes itself as “a social marketplace for crocheters and knitters”.
Does Ravelry have free patterns?
… available as PDF downloads from Ravelry. You can see all of them, or we’ve split them out into free or for sale patterns if you prefer to browse that way. Your Pattern Highlights These are newly released patterns that we think you might like.
Why can’t some people use Ravelry?
Soon after the new design went live, a user complained that the site was responsible for migraine headaches. This was followed by an Instagram post: “Warning: Ravelry may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy as well as migraines.
Has Ravelry changed?
Last summer, Ravelry announced that, for the first time, it would radically redesign the site. The company had hired Livia Nelson, a product designer, to change what Cassidy had made thirteen years before. The revamping featured a new logo, color scheme, and font.
Ravelry is a free social networking service and website that beta-launched in May 2007. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, spinning and weaving.
How do I download Ravelry patterns for free?
4 STEPS TO SEARCH FOR FREE KNITTING PATTERNS
- Visit the Patterns tab in the top navigation.
- Enter a search term in the box (I typed in “scarf”)
- Filter your results by. craft (“knitting”) gender / age / size / fit. ravelry designer.
- Scroll back up to the top of your page to see your filtered knitting project selections.
What is the most popular pattern on Ravelry?
Shawls
Shawls are, by far, the most popular pattern type that Ravelers look at; and, not surprisingly, projects requiring fingering weight yarn outnumber all other yarn weights combined.
What does KFB mean in knitting?
Abbreviation: kfb. Knitting in the front and back of the same stitch is one way to increase the row by one stitch. In this video we will show you how to increase a stitch using the knit front back method.
What happened to Ravelry?
Short answer: Ravelry left me. Slightly longer answer: Last week, Ravelry announced a new official policy banning all content in support of the current U.S. President (Donald Trump) and his administration, on the grounds that support for Trump = support for white supremacy.
Does banned from Ravelry delete your data?
You’ll want to scroll down to paragraph 5, “Editing and Deleting Your Account Information”) Update: Apparently, although being banned is not supposed to delete one’s data on Ravelry, deleting one’s account does; there is a warning message to that effect when one goes through the delete process.
Will Ravelry crack down on pattern piracy?
She is a knitting pattern designer, and is very concerned that Ravelry is doing nothing to crack down on pattern piracy (the unethical collecting of what are supposed to be paid patterns in various Yahoo groups and then posting those patterns as free patterns on Ravelry).
Why is Ravelry banning knitting & crocheting?
The Ravelry admins stated that this policy had been adapted from one used by a video game forum. This policy apparently is being enforced, according to numerous comments responding to YouTube videos posted by knitters & crocheters announcing their withdrawal from Ravelry.