Friday, April 13, 2012

Are you familiar with Ravelry?

I'm sure you are all familiar with Ravelry, but there might be some things you DIDN'T know.  Did you know that we have a group on Ravelry, called Ewe Knit at Main Street? We even have a discussion "thread".  Do you have an account with Ravelry and if so are you friends with us?  When you post a picture of your finished project do you share it with us? 
 (This is our picture at the web site)

Ravelry is a grand resource for anyone who knits or crochets.   There are a lot of patterns, information about yarns, anything a knitter or crocheter might want. 
So - let's say you want to make a man's hat.  You could go to Raverly.com, sign in or if you are not a member sign up (it doesn't cost anything).  You could put in the search "men's hat" and limit it to knitting or crocheting (and there is a lot of other criteria).  You will see several projects of different kinds of men's hats. If you open up the individual projects, you will find much more information, such as kind of yarn they used, needle size, what they liked or didn't like about the pattern, where the pattern is from, etc.. 
They have a place where you can list all your yarn, books, patterns and needles.  Really, it's just a mountain of information, with different ways to keep track of your own stuff!  (Now if they'll only find a virtual place we can keep all our stash).
Anyway, check it out, let us know what you think.


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