4,000,000
February 28th, 2014 — The 4 millionth person signed up and tried out Ravelry today! Since we've been having fun counting down to milestones and sharing stats, we thought that you'd enjoy this page of interesting facts about Rav.
Ravelry is constantly growing and we're always working to make it better. We hope that this place will continue to sweeten your yarn life for many years to come.
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Jess, Cassidy, Mary Heather, Sarah, and Christina
...er - 4 out of every 100 *avatars* are cats. There are about 12,000 cat-vatars on Ravelry. Most of them look like trouble.
Combined, all of the finished projects on Ravelry contain almost 2 million pounds of yarn and weigh more than 5 blue whales.
If you were to frog everyone's finished projects and combine that yarn with all of the unused stash, you'd have over 5 billion kilometers of yarn - enough to add 5 new (single strand) rings to Saturn.
If you were to use all of that yarn to make wetsuits for the blue whales, you'd... end up with quite a few. What kind of gauge do you get from 5 billion km of mismatched yarn?
The calendar above groups together the completion dates for every finished project from 2007-2013. It looks like some of you were cutting it close with Christmas gifts ;)
Red blocks mark days when the most projects were completed.
Yellow blocks mark days when fewer projects were finished.
1 tiny block in the chart above ( 
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= the entire 7 book set of Harry Potter novels
As of February 2014, Ravelry groups & the main forums contain more than 100 million posts and 5 billion words. That's enough words to stack up to 4400 complete sets of the Harry Potter series.
Well, I was hoping that one would be more interesting. Not a whole lot to see here! Greys seem to be picking up, eh?
2-3 PM Eastern time is the busiest time of day on Ravelry.
During these 60 minutes, you all click the "love" buttons on forum posts over 7,000 times. At each day's end, love buttons have been clicked about 125,000 times.
Monday is our busiest day and more new patterns are added on this day than on any other day of the week. It's not all about Monday, though. Other days of the week have their own specialties:
Sunday is the biggest photo and project updating day. Wednesday is the busiest time of the week for the forums. More patterns are purchased on Fridays. Saturday is the quietest time of the week for just about everything but it's usually the most popular day for pattern searches.
30,000 people have created a page for their own design or yarn
64,000 people have contributed a page for any pattern or yarn (their own or someone else's)
74,000 people have revised a pattern or yarn page
336,000 people have added a project (with a photo)
1 year
151,000 people
2 years
127,000
3 years
108,000
4 years
87,000
5 years
77,000
6 years
50,000
Your Ravelversary is the anniversary of the date that you joined Ravelry.
The Anniversaries for Ravelers who were active during 2013 are shown above.
150,000 of you have had your first anniversary and 50,000 of you old timers have celebrated your 6th. We're very happy that all of you are here with us and we hope that you'll celebrate many more :)
In a typical 24 hour period, we add...
65,000
forum posts
7,000
new projects
5,000
stashed yarns
15,000
queued projects
80,000
favorites
30,000
photos
Iceland is leading the way with an estimated 346 Ravelers per 10,000 Icelanders! Here are the top countries that members hail from:
Iceland: 346 Ravelers per 10000
Canada: 90 per 10000
United States: 84 per 10000
Norway: 83 per 10000
Finland: 78 per 10000
New Zealand: 66 per 10000
United Kingdom: 49 per 10000
Australia: 49 per 10000
Denmark: 44 per 10000
Sweden: 44 per 10000
Ireland: 41 per 10000
Estonia: 38 per 10000
Netherlands: 24 per 10000
Germany: 16 per 10000Figures are based on self-reported data. If we instead use IP address information, Iceland bumps up to 450+ and New Zealand ties the US and Norway with 84 Ravelers per capita.
We've met so many people that use Ravelry in different ways. That's great and it's exactly what we want to hear. Use it as a tool, a memory book, a way to socialize, whatever. Use Ravelry however you like!
Thanks for reading! Let's close this out with a few highlights from the last year:
