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Tip: Bundle your Shopping List!
… to head to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival next weekend, is using them to make a shopping list!
Since you can bundle up fiber, patterns, and yarns all together, it’s a great way to collect your wishlist in one place. You can also add notes to your bundled items, to make sure you won’t forget the notions, hooks, or needles you’ll need for each project.
If you want, you can even share the bundle and make it public. When you do this, non-Ravelers will be able to see any public pages in the …
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Tip: Bundle all the Things!
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Crafty inspiration and eye candy!
If you’d like to easily refer to beautiful pictures of gorgeous handspun, incredible woven projects, jaw-dropping lace, or really any other grouping of things you can think of – bundle them!
Projects that make you smile.
I made bundles for Pets in Knits and Great Big Stuffies for the simple reason that they make me smile! Any feature that makes pictures of chickens in sweaters easier to find again is a winner with me!
Shopping or wish lists …
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Tip: Group Your Favorites into Bundles
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We'd love to hear your suggestions for making this better. Please stop by For the Love of Ravelry with any ideas that you have.
Oh - and for those of you who use tags for organization: when adding favorites to a bundle there is an option to import from a tag.If you'd prefer to just stick with tags, no pressure. You can show and hide the tag sidebar with the "tags" button at the top of the page.
Next week, Mary-Heather will get into more detail and show some of the other cool things …
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Bundles: a feature for grouping things together
… menu will bring up a list of tags. Select one. When the box comes up showing the item(s), select from them or click on ‘add all’. When the item has been added, click on ‘I’m finished adding’.
Import a list of links
From the bundle page, click on ‘add to bundle’ Select ‘import a list of links’ Paste links to Ravelry items into the box Click on ‘find links’ When the links show up in a box with a read header bar, click on ‘add all’ or select just some by clicking the checkboxes on the right …
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Thursday Tip: Pattern Highlights
… you can favorite in the Ravelry database: patterns, yarns, stores, designers, dyers, etc. If you favorite a whole Bundle, any patterns added to that Bundle will also show up in your Pattern Highlights. Bundles can be created by people, designers, and groups, and if you click into a Bundle you can always favorite it by clicking the heart in the upper right. (And not to worry: if you want to add a Bundle to your favorites but don’t want the patterns to show up in your Highlights, just uncheck the …
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Tip: Organize Your Sweater Dreams!
… and makes it really easy to find stashed yarns I want to use when I am ready to start a new sweater project, or when I just want to think about what type of sweater I’d like to make next.
If you’d like to make a similar bundle, you can do it in a couple of ways, depending upon whether or not you’ve added your Ravelry yarn to your stash.
If you track your stash in Ravelry, you can sort your stashed yarn by most yardage to quickly see all the yarns you bought with intentions for solid-color …
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Thursday Tip: Favoriting Posts
… favorite the post, the heart will turn pink and you can choose if you want to add notes about the post, add tags to help you better search your favorites or add it to a bundle. Adding the favorite to a bundle is optional, but it provides you with a lot of additional options. You could have a bundle of posts that you want to read again later. You might also have a bundle for a certain technique, like colorwork, and you could save patterns, projects and forum posts about colorwork all in the same …
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Tip: Groups, make your lists searchable
… have a Ravelry group with pages or posts that are list of links to patterns, yarns, projects (and more) you can now make those lists browseable and searchable by turning them into a bundle.
To see what I mean, click the image below to look at Sock Knitters Anonymous' bundle of 120+ self striping socks.
Here's how: First, go to the bundles tab in your group and create a new bundle. Next, click "add to this bundle" and you'll see an option to add from a group page or a list of links.
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Tip: Patterns for Gifts
… I’ve mentioned above. From there, you can narrow it down even more to find the perfect pattern for the gift you are making. Don’t forget, you can save the search and come back to it later.
Bundles
Bundles are a way you can group your favorites. You can group together anything that you can favorite. I have a bundle that has patterns in it that I think would make great gifts. I could extend this and add yarns that would be great for gift making, as well. Anytime I get ready to make a gift, I go …
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Tip: Try a Ravelry Wish List!
… you can search it and reorder it. To add something to your Wish List, just click on the “add to favorites” button and you’ll see the Wish List option at the top of your list of bundles – select that and then hit the save button:
Now you’ll have a new Wish List Bundle in your Favorites. It’s a little different than other Bundles because we show the prices and when you’re looking at a friend’s Wish List, you’ll see the link to buy them the gift (if it’s a pattern sold on Ravelry) right in their …
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Thursday Tip: Faves, Queue, Library, Shopping Cart
… ! I love checking that box and sorting the results by “recently published” to see what is new from my favorite designers.
Want to read more about Favorites? Here are some resources!
Favorites walkthrough video (this was made before Bundles existed but has good basic info!)
Introducing Bundles Tips post
Bundle All The Things Tips post!
Queue
Your Ravelry Queue is where you can track patterns you want to make, or yarns you want to use. You can reorder your queue to keep things you want to start …
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Tip: Pattern Search Arrow Drop-Down
… you if the pattern is already in your Ravelry favorites, or let you add it to your favorites right from the search page! If you choose to add the pattern to your favorites, you can now also add it to a bundle here, too! (New feature alert! The options to add to favorites and bundles from this drop-down were just added!)
The final option in the drop-down is the Remember and Compare star, and you can read all about that feature in our previous Remember and Compare Tips post!
There are a lot of …
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Tip: Share a Group of Patterns
Have you ever wanted to share a group of patterns with a friend or family member?
There are a few different ways that you can use Ravelry to collect patterns. You can favorite a set of patterns and collect them in a special bundle, but you might prefer something temporary that doesn't mess with your favorites.
If you use "remember and compare" to star patterns in the pattern search, you can make a temporary list of search results and share it with others. Here is how:
Use "remember …
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Tip: a faster way to organize your favorites
If you'd like to try collecting your favorites into bundles but you have so many faves that just thinking about it makes you tired, you might like the new "organize" feature:
In organize mode, you can scroll through your favorites and put 'em into bundles with a minimal amount of tapping and clicking.
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Tip: Yarn Shop Travelogue
Today, someone in the forums asked if there was a way to track the yarn shops that she has visited in her travels.
There is! Every shop page has an "add to favorites" button, so you can add shops to your favorites, include them in bundles like "Visited" or "Want to Visit" and include comments. The yarn shop search can be found on the "yarns" tab.
I still need to move the Yarn Shop search so that it has filters like the other advanced searches ("near me", "purchased yarn at", "in …
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Notebook: Favorites
… that you intend to make. The library is the list of patterns, books, and magazines that you own. (from a post by Cassidy)
Here’s another post about these three features: link text
The Favorites Page
Across the top are tabs for everything, bundles, and organize.
Below that are the search and different view functions.
’View favorites as’ offers the options of showing large thumbnail, small thumbnail, or small photo grid: what you see on the page will vary with what view you’ve chosen. For …
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Welcome to Ravelry! FAQ
… therefore can be found by search engines and people who are not logged in to Ravelry.
Favorites? Anyone on Ravelry can see your favorites, including tags and bundles. None of this is visible to the public, though you can choose to make any of your bundles of favorites public by clicking on the “share this” button in the upper right of the bundle page.
Email address? We don’t share your email address or use your email address for purposes outside of assisting you with the Ravelry website.
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Black Lives Matter
… Black Lives Matter.
We are so happy to see the Ravelry community seeking out ways to support Black designers
and yarnies.
Check out the bundles that the Ravelry Solidarity Swap group has curated
of BIPOC designers and yarnies. You can search these bundles using our Advanced Search,
and if you add the bundle of Designers to your Ravelry favorites you'll automatically
see new patterns from included designers in your Highlights on the main Patterns page.
On Instagram …
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Pattern Highlights collected information
… your pattern highlights?
Use this link https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/recommended
Now customize your highlights to include designers whose work you are interested in.
The “also show new patterns from designers in these bundles” line doesn’t show?
Experimentation suggests that you have to favorite a bundle that is of favorited designers, not of patterns.
Customization tips
“If you see a cute project you love for a pattern that is being tested, definitely mark it as a favorite, and we’ll …
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Patterns, main tab
… to pattern pages individually, requesting permission from the designers and/or publishers to use the official photos, or from Ravelry users who’ve finished the pattern to use their photos.
Other fun points
Share a group of patterns
Favorite some patterns, create a bundle, and share that with another Raveler.
For a more temporary option, create a search using ‘remember and compare’ and share the search link; once you’ve shared the link, you don’t need to keep it unless you want it still.