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Thursday Tip: Faves, Queue, Library, Shopping Cart
… purchasing and will usually only be visible for a short amount of time while you hold the patterns in your cart before checking out. While it is possible to hold patterns in your shopping cart for as long as you like, we recommend using your favorites or queue if you are keeping it in your cart because you want to remember it or make it someday.
Some things I love about my Shopping Cart:
I love buying patterns to support designers! That’s about all there is to the shopping cart.
Phew!
I hope …
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Thursday Tip: For my queue
… The default view is “in my library”. So, the first thing it will show you is books and magazines that you already have that include the patterns you’ve decided you want to make. You can also switch this to show you books and magazines you need for your queue that you do not currently have in your library. To do this, just click “not in my library” near the top of that window.
My favorite part of this feature is that if there are multiple patterns that I want to make from the same book or …
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N/A Not in Use: See Queue Section
Your queue is where you keep the listing of the projects you would like to make. A wonderful list of projects that includes the location of the pattern (if available) is a great way to keep your time free for crafting.
For more information, visit the Queue Section wiki
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Notebook: Queue
… like to make. It can include the location of the pattern, a link to your stash yarn or the name of the yarn you’d like to use, whom you wish to make it for, when you want to have it finished, tags to help you organize and look at a section of your queue at a time, and more.
If you’re not sure what the queue is for, check out this post from staff member maryheatherb. There are lots of screenshots there that can show you how to use things too!
Or see this page for a discussion of when to use the …
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Deine Warteschlange - Queue
… ” Button in der oberen rechten Ecke auf einer Anleitungs- oder Garn-Seite.
Wenn Du eine Anleitung auf einer anderen Webseite als Ravelry findest, kannst Du das unten beschriebene Bookmarklet benutzen. Oder Du klickst auf Deiner Queue-Seite auf “Add to Queue” und trägst die Anleitung von Hand ein.
Wie kann ich die Einträge in meiner Warteschlange sortieren?
Du kannst die Einträge mit Hilfe der grünen Pfeile verschieben, oder Du änderst die Nummer ganz links und klickst …
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Notebook: projects, stash, queue, handspun, favorites, library
… .
Your profile page is like a cover and table of contents for your notebook, with a few extra links and features. Many of these can also be found listed there.
Strictly speaking, however, the my notebook menu includes only:
Projects Section
Queue Section
Stash Section
Handspun Section
Tools Section
Favorites Section
Library Section
The my notebook menu is a dropdown from the main tabs bar and can be seen on the pages of the notebook across the top as well.
Note that each area …
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Thursday Tip: Making plans for stash and fiber
… is a place to keep track of the projects you are going to do next.
Many of you use your queue to keep a list of patterns that you want to make, but did you know that you can also use your queue to list the stash or fiber that you want to use next?
To do this, use the "add to queue" button in your queue and click "use stash yarn" or "use stashed fiber". If you don't have a pattern in mind, you can use the pattern field to give your future project a title.
Here is an example from Mary-Heather …
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Thursday Tip: The Benefits of Stashing
… , you can add a stash yarn to it, so you know what yarn you will use for that pattern. We’ll have some more detailed instructions coming soon. Linking a stash yarn to your queue allows you to see the yarn you plan to use listed on your queue page.
You will also see that you already have a pattern picked for a yarn on your stash page.
5. You can look at your yarn from anywhere
The ability to look at my stash from anywhere is maybe my favorite thing about the stash feature. I love being able …
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Thursday Tip: Adding a Project
… book or magazine,” “website or download,” or “handout, pamphlet or sheet,” you can enter the name of the source here.
After filling that out, you’ll get the chance to confirm the pattern on the next screen (again, if you start a pattern from your queue or the pattern page you can skip this step):
Add details!
Now you can fill in more detailed information about your project! Here is what you’ll see along the middle of your project page – here are the items we haven’t gone over already:
Made …
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Thursday Tip: Mobile Pattern Search!
… it out and let us know what you think!
The mobile pattern search has:
all of the same filter and sort features as the desktop version
a quick way to peek at pattern details before you open the full page
a way to favorite and queue, with a fave/queue entry that is sized for small screens
easy “remember and compare” so that you can star patterns and look at them later on a different device
images that only load as you scroll toward them, hopefully speeding things up and saving data
Want to try …
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Tip: Organize Your Sweater Dreams!
… make. Even better: dreaming about sweaters I want to make with yarn I already have in my stash. One way I do this is, of course, to attach stashed yarn to the pattern I plan to make with it when I add the pattern to my Ravelry queue. Because I keep my queue small, with only projects I really plan to knit in the immediate future (and only with yarn I already have), I use another Ravelry feature to organize the sweater quantities of yarn I don’t yet have plans for: bundles!
I made a bundle called …
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Tip: Project Challenge FAQs
… mind and want to opt back in. How do I do that?
Here’s a link! It will bring you to the challenge page and from there you’ll be able to choose to participate.
How do I make my queued projects show up on the page?
If you edit any item in your queue you’ll be able to add a due date to that item. If the due date is within the current year it will show up on your challenge page.
How do I make my in-progress project show up on the page?
We’ve added a new due date field to projects. You’ll see it …
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Ravelry Resolutions
… for you! You can change this number at any time, and there is no deadline to sign up.
After you’ve set your goal, you can track your project on the Challenge tab, with a list of the projects you have completed in 2020 and any items in your queue to which you’ve given a 2020 deadline. Each time you mark one of your Ravelry projects as finished this year you will get closer to your goal. I've found the Project Challenge super motivating for the past two years and met my 2019 goal on December 31 as …
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2021 Project Challenge
… set up your Challenge, go to your project page and click the "Challenge" tab. You will be prompted to enter the number of projects you would like to complete this year.
You can add deadlines to your queue items or your works in progress (WIPs) to have them show up on your challenge tab. Any project or queue item with a 2021 deadline will show there. It's a great way to keep up with your current and upcoming projects, as well as tracking your progress! You can check out my challenge page as an …
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Thursday Tip: Use the RSS, Luke
… to happen on the other. Here are some cool things things that you could do with your RSS feeds and IFTTT:
Receive a text message when a certain colorway of a yarn that you need becomes available for trade or sale.
Automatically post a status update to Facebook whenever you queue a new project.
Tweet from a special account any time a new thread is started in your local knitting group's board.
Receive an email when a new finished object appears for a new pattern that you've had your eye on
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Thursday Tip: Pattern Viewing History
Did you know that we have a special page on which you can see a history of the patterns you’ve viewed? If you’ve ever looked at a pattern you admired but forgot to add it to your favorites or queue, and then wished to quickly find it again soon after, here’s how!
On the main patterns tab, look just under the red hot right now box on the left. If you’ve looked at any patterns on Ravelry recently, you’ll see a little you’ve looked at… section with little thumbnails of your three most recently …
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Thursday Tip: New Gifting Options
… ’t have a wishlist? Never fear, you can find out how to make one by checking out these instructions.
To give those friends & family members a not-so-subtle hint, send them a link to your wishlist. You can find it by going to your queue, and clicking the wishlist tab.
Then, copy the link from your browser’s address window. Paste that into an email to your loved one and they will then be able to access your wishlist anytime in the future to send you pattern presents through our download …
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Thursday Tip: People Tab
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watch FOs live is a link to our finished object radar where you can watch live as projects are marked finished. It can be nice thing to watch while knitting/crocheting!
your neighbors
This section shows you Ravelers who have similar patterns in their projects, queue, and favorites. Clicking on the username takes you to a page where you can see your versions of the same pattern next to each other.
And that’s a wrap on the people tab. The rest of the navigation tabs will be featured here in …
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Thursday Tip: Spread Some Cheer
… anonymous.
Do you want to add patterns to your wishlist for friends and family who aren’t Ravelers? If so, create a wishlist of patterns. You can find instructions for creating a wishlist using these instructions. Then, you can provide your friends and family with the link to your queue and they will see your wishlist. They can follow the links to the pattern pages and send them as a gift to you!
I hope these options help you spread some cheer to others and get a gift you will use, too!
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Thursday Tip: Pattern Ideas update
… that will be matched with each pattern's yarn requirements, and click over to the advanced pattern search. You'll also see more information about yarn requirements - both the amount that the pattern calls for and the amount typically used by other Ravelers.
Finally, patterns that are both listed in both the ideas and your favorites or queue will appear at the very top so that you do not miss them.
If you have any suggestions for improving pattern ideas even more, we'd love to hear them!