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• Thursday Tip: Upload a Ravatar
  … then click the upload button to add it.  The picture will show up on the left side of the screen just under the add profile pics button.  You also have the choice to use a webcam to add a picture, if you have one. And that’s it!  Now you have a Ravatar to represent you all over the site!  I like to choose a picture of me smiling because I feel like it makes my posts sound friendlier.  Have fun picking something to represent you! And for those of you that already have a …
• Thursday Tip: Your Profile Page
  … customize Ravelry for yourself.  It lets you see local yarn shops near you that carry certain yarns and anywhere on the site that you can search nearby (users, yarn shops, etc) we use this information.  It also shows up when people hover over your Ravatar.  If you don’t feel comfortable naming your actual town, you could try your county, or another town in the area. Years knitting, crocheting: Just for fun, a place to let us know how long yarn has been in your life. Any pets …
• Tip: April Fools’ Day Flair!
  … each year in the past, we have given you a hat. This year, you can choose your hat! You can also choose from a variety of other flair for your Ravatar. To do this, go to your profile page by clicking your username in the upper right of the page. Then, click on the "add some flair" button you see under your Ravatar. When you click on that you will see this menu. You add flair by dragging the little icons onto your picture. If you decide you don't want something, just drag …
• Tip: Hats and Flair!
  … on their profile pages and when they post on the forums. This year for the holiday, you’ll be able to choose your hat and even add some fun flair to your Ravatar! To do this, on April 1, go to your profile page by clicking your picture in the upper right of your screen. Next, click on the “add some flair” button, and you’ll see this menu: Dragging the little icons onto your picture and arrange them however you like. If you decide you don’t want something after all, just drag it back out …
• You've got Flair!
  Sherbert the Sheep trying on her Flair!It's Flair Week on Ravelry! Every year on April 1, Ravelers can decorate their profile pictures with hats and fun items that will show on their Ravatar on profile pages and when they post on the forums. Like last year, we're making it a whole Flair Week so that we all have some extra time to express ourselves. This year we added some new options: a phone playing Wordle, a sunflower, a whisk, a bike, and two kinds of hot sauce. To add your flair, …
• Tip: Four Forum Features
  … get more information about those replies. The title of the thread is a link to it, so you can go straight to the replies from there!   2. Hide/Disagree Ravatars Ravatar is what we call your avatar on Ravelry – the little picture that appears next to your forum posts (among other places on the site). You may find that there are some Ravatars you would prefer not to look at, so you can use the hide or disagree features to do so. You’ll find the feature by entering a thread and clicking the …
• Thursday Tip: Get the Lingo!
  … like you are in-the-know – but only if you know what things mean! Today I wanted to share a few commonly used Ravelry terms so you’ll know exactly what people mean when you come across them on the forums or elsewhere around our site. Ravatar: This is another name for your profile picture. Since profile pictures are commonly called “avatars,” it was only a matter of time before our members made this word Ravelry-specific! By the way, if you haven’t uploaded a profile picture here to Ravelry and …
• Tip: 3 Things to do on Ravelry in the New Year
  … Cumberbatches…) It’s definitely not required, but it can be nice to have a picture on your profile page or attached to your projects and forum posts. If you’d like some instructions about how to add a pic: we have tutorials on uploading a Ravatar (that’s Ravelry slang for Ravelry Avatar) and using your Instagram profile picture (if you have one) here on Ravelry as your profile picture. 3. Find a yearly challenge group or join a craft-along! Every year, there are groups that form to make …
• Ravelry Resolutions
  … picture on your profile page or attached to your projects and forum posts, sharing a bit of your personality on your profile and around the site. If you’d like some instructions about how to add a pic: we have tutorials on uploading a Ravatar (that’s Ravelry slang for Ravelry Avatar) and using your Instagram profile picture (if you have one) here on Ravelry as your profile picture. 3. Make a personal Project Challenge! At the beginning of 2018, we added a Challenge tab to Ravelry Notebooks …
• Friday Tip: Group Pages
  … (and fun!), we wanted to share a few groups that make great use of the pages feature! Stranded pages have loads of colorwork knitting techniques, Family Favorite Recipes keeps their recipes pages updated regularly, Loom Knitters pages feature fantastic resources and tutorials, and S221b’s pages give a great overview to the way their group works as well as provide lots of links for Sherlock fans (judging from the ever-increasing number of Benedict Cumberbatch Ravatars, that’s a lot of you!).
• Thursday Tip: Friend Activity Updates
  … we hope you enjoy! First: oooh the pretty pictures. We now default to a larger photo view, more consistent with other photo views across the site. (The old, smaller photo view is still an option you can select if you prefer.) You’ll also notice little Ravatars (I’ve marked them with green arrows in the photo above) whenever there is activity for someone adding a project photo – we wanted to make it easier to spot when one of your friends is updating a project they’ve been working on! You’ll …
• profile page
  … to as comment history (first seen 2017). Forum posts This link takes you to a page where you can look at your post history, search your posts, or look at your post statistics. Post statistics, which is a small link on the left under your Ravatar, will show you two pie charts indicating where you post most often. The ‘my posts’ page can also be reached from the dropdown menu of the speech bubble icon next to the message envelope: my posts, drafts, and links to your boards by grouping (if …
• I am temporarily using this old page as a scratch pad. This content will be moved elsewhere, later.
  I am temporarily using this old page as a scratch pad. This content will be moved elsewhere, later. Yikes, I need to shrink some images. *** Page 1. content for ContributingSection Contributions (Patterns & Yarns) When you enter a project into your notebook, you can choose both a pattern and a yarn. You can select patterns and yarns from the database. The patterns and yarns you’ll find have all been entered by another Ravelry user at some point. The purpose of this is that it allows …
• how to report a problem, blocking, ignoring, contacting Ravelry
  … ” link. Please use this to let us know about spam. If this link is not available you can still report the user via their profile page. Are you looking for how to block a user in the forums? Use the three dot menu under their Ravatar next to a post to hide the Ravatar, ‘disagree’ it so you see an image to remind you not to engage with that Raveler, or block the user so you don’t see their posts in most places. This menu is covered on the help page “(Almost) everything you wanted to know about …
• Welcome to Ravelry! FAQ
  … ?How many people are on Ravelry?Places to Find HelpSources of Information about Using RavelryPlaces to Ask QuestionsLingo/Glossary: For Ravelry and the InternetCommon Frequently Asked QuestionsI see these tabs that say Notebook, Patterns, Yarns, etc. What do they do?What’s an avatar/ravatar?What does the lightbulb by a person’s avatar mean?I didn’t know my username would be important, can I change it?What are tags and how do I use them?I’m a crocheter. I don’t knit. What does Ravelry offer me …
• Posting in Ravelry Forums
  … posts, and all posts in thread. Staff-written page here Note that when you are ignoring from this page, you un-ignore from this page. According to Raveler research, you can’t stop ignoring someone from this page if you ignored them using the Ravatar bubble option. Quick magic links The magic link process shown above a post requires that you type in the information and then select from options when you post the thread. Quick magic links lets you select and confirm while typing the post. See …
• general editing guidelines and a guide to setting up source pages
  … stop adopting? Use the “adopt these patterns” button found on the editing or volunteer editors tab of a pattern, pattern source, yarn, or yarn brand page. You can quit adopting any time by returning to the tab and clicking on the word “resign“ under your Ravatar. How do I find patterns or yarns to edit? Yarns and patterns that are very popular are likely to be well-edited. Before you edit yarns, please check out the yarn editing page For Yarn Adopters and/or the Yarn page. Ask in the group if …
• Getting Your Photos on Ravelry
  … doesn’t my whole photo show? Why is my photo cut into a square?My photos look off-center in posts and text looks funny/is stretched off the screen!All I get is an empty box with a red X!My photo is rotated/reversed!I can’t see Ravatars!How do I make photos accessible to the blind and visually impaired?I want to add photos to pattern pages / cover images to books, magazines, websites, leaflets.When I’m trying to upload photos, Ravelry tells me I’m not a member!I still have questions! There are …
• Wiki Home Page
  … is no longer managed by volunteers. If you experience a technical problem with Ravelry (that is not fixable via the steps on the Help! My Rav is Broken! page), please report it to Ravelry staff using the “Submit Feedback” link in the upper right corner Ravatar dropdown menu. Editing the Wiki How-To-Wiki - Instructions for how to edit the Wiki. Ravelry Style Guide Note: If you edit a wiki page, please fill in a brief description in the Summary of Changes box before you save. This is very …
• messaging
  … and someone comments on a flagged issue. To send messages or read messages sent to you, go to your message box in your notebook. You can also click on “send message” under a Ravatar in someone’s profile or in the dropdown menu next to a forum post to send them a message. When you have a message, the envelope next to your Ravatar, in the upper right corner, will show a number (for the number of messages waiting for you) and the envelope will look as if it’s open. New in 2020 If for some …