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• Tip: How to Get Hearts ❤️
  … . To see photoless projects you have to specifically choose that filter. We’ve also noticed that projects with photos have more hearts on average; Ravelers are more likely to favorite a project they can see. (Photo uploading blog posts here and here.) Make It Searchable The project gallery isn’t the only way a fellow Raveler might stumble across your project, it might come up in our projects advanced search. Here are some ways to make sure your project shows up in appropriate searches. Use the …
• Thursday Tip: Ravel It bookmarklet
  … will instead bring you to the pattern search and fill in the page title as the search text. To install the bookmarklet on your computer, just drag this button to your bookmarks bar. ravel it! An example (using Knitty) is shown below. Click the image to see how it works. If you are on Internet Explorer and dragging doesn't work, try right clicking and choosing "add to favorites". You can also use this when mobile if your mobile device syncs from your desktop Safari or Chrome. Chrome on …
• New testing feature: Swatches!
  … Swatch: Sherbert will put a sheep illustration (her name is Sherbert!) at the bottom right of the Swatches page. Normally we'll run Swatches for a finite amount of time before deciding whether to make it into a permanent feature, but Sherbert will be in the Swatches section forever so that Ravelers can try it out at any time. As we get data from running Swatches, we may make some adjustments to the functionality of the Swatcher, but wanted to share our new process with you right away. We're …
• Thursday Tip: Faves, Queue, Library, Shopping Cart
  … you like to add a lot of things to your Ravelry favorites, bundles are a great way to organize the faves you might want to find again later. Hearts! Sometimes I like to add Ravelers’ projects to my favorites simply because it gives the Raveler a little heart on that project. Even if I don’t want to find it again, I like to spread a little love! You can search your favorites both from the favorites section in your Notebook and through filters in the advanced search. As you can see, the advanced …
• Thursday Tip: Adding a Project
  … 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 for: was this a gift? Did you make it for yourself? Enter that here! Link to Raveler: fill in a Ravelry username in the “link to Raveler” field if you made it for someone on Ravelry! We even have a Thursday Tips post specifically about that feature. Size made: here you can enter the size or measurements of your project. Filling in the size you make can be …
• Quick Tip: Your Raveler Number
  … site by selecting your profile photo in the upper right and scrolling down to Profile.  Once you are on your profile page, click "Raveler Since" and your Raveler number will magically appear. It will only show to you, so if you want to remember it or share it with others, you'll want to make a note of it. If you want others to see it on your profile page, you can add it to your About Me section or one of the custom fields under "Add three of your own things" when editing your profile. Whether …
• Thursday Tip: Requesting Features in The List
  … ! Lots of great ideas were suggested in the early days of Ravelry and just because we haven’t gotten to them yet doesn’t mean we never will (note from Livia: I’m already working on some!). On the other hand, an item being on The List doesn’t mean it will definitely happen. We love having feedback from Ravelers on the changes you’d like to see (or not see!) and it is a key part of our discussions about how we spend our time. We feel lucky to have a community that cares so much about Ravelry and …
• Thursday Tip: Shop Tab
  … eye on the minimart in the coming months – we have some new products coming soon! Next up, let’s visit the middle column. The marketplace is a Ravelry advertising slot available for purchase. You can visit it to find out about the shops your fellow Ravelers run, or click on an individual ad to visit it. One thing I like about the marketplace is you can filter the ads by category and also by advertisers local to you, in your friends, or in your groups. Finally, let’s visit the right-most column …
• Tip: 3 Things to do on Ravelry in the New Year
  … formed check them out and see if one seems like a good fit for you! We also have loads of active craftalong groups to join if you’d like to participate in crafting with other Ravelers in all kinds of different ways. If you are new to groups on Ravelry, they are started and run by Ravelers, so each one has its own tone and community. There are literally thousands of welcoming and friendly groups who would love to have you (yes you!) join and share with them. Now is a great time to jump in! Bonus …
• Tip: start a project from your phone!
  … can edit your project further – updating the progress or adding the date you started; you can also click on the share this link if you’d like to be able to share it via Ravelry message or allow it to be seen by non-Ravelers with a special link or even visible publicly. You can of course easily find your project in your Notebook on your phone and edit it at any time. These screenshots are detailed and the post is a bit lengthy because I wanted to show every step of the process, but in practice …
• Thursday Tip: Introducing Purchase Finder
  … a survey, looking at analytics, tracking how a page or feature is currently being used, etc. (If you're interested in this stuff and want to get nerdy about it, this article is my UX research touchstone.) It's all about getting a lay of the land so that I can make informed design decisions that will definitely benefit the Ravelers. In this case, we already had a lot of research on hand: Sarah shared insights with me about the most common issues people had with finding their purchases, and Casey …
• Tip: Import Your Instagram Photos
  … see your Instagram photos appear in a grid on the upload from Instagram tab. Scroll through the photo grid to find the picture you’d like to import; click on it and you’ll see us start to import your picture. When we’ve finished importing, it will appear up at the top of the photos tab with any other pictures, and you can reorder it as you wish. Ravelers of Instagram, we hope this makes it easier than ever for you to keep your Ravelry project and stash photos up to date. Have fun importing …
• Thursday Tip: The List
  … ideas were suggested in the early days of Ravelry and just because we haven’t gotten to them yet doesn’t mean we never will. On the other hand, an item being on The List doesn’t mean it will definitely happen. We love having feedback from Ravelers on the changes you’d like to see (or not see!) and it is a key part of our discussions about how our two programmers spend their time. I hope you’ve enjoyed this intro to how to share your ideas with us, or join in on the conversation about previous …
• Community Eye Candy: Gifts
  … this week’s eye candy. From left to right: richiesoft‘s Happy Wedding, NanaCathy‘s Bigfoot Slippers, and KeTreKo‘s :::HappyNewYearRings:::. Fron left to right: weaselmomma‘s Latvian Garden, judithlynn‘s Fireman’s Ghan, and SleepyEyes‘ Adelaide in Gray. Don’t forget, if you’re making a gift for a fellow Raveler (or yourself!) you can mark it on your project page by filling in the “made for raveler” field.  It’s fun to able to see the lucky recipient of a crafty gift when browsing projects …
• NA
  … is or should be somewhere?) Hot Right Now (info on page somewhere?) You’ve looked at Recently Added Patterns with link View all recently added patterns by category below Ravel It Bookmarklet (as explained, need more?) Featured advertisers (info needs to be somewhere because people ask about it - add to some wiki page?) Debut Patterns, Spotlight and Recently Added (as explained) Your Pattern Highlights Browse All Categories Designers on Ravelry Something Random Popular Attributes Search Projects …
• Community Eye Candy: Autumn Colors
  … projects incorporate that golden glow: Birdsoup’s Transformation Shawl, Isrose’s Shawl and jromanov’s HotShorts. In the United States, we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving this week, in the midst of the fall leaves (or in some cases snow). We are so very thankful for each and every Raveler who is a part of our community. You each make Ravelry what it is with every project, pattern, forum post and bundle that you add. Thank you for being an inspiration to us and to other Ravelers every day!
• Welcome to Ravelry! FAQ
  … users to track their own personal “stash” of yarn in their Ravelry Notebook. While this information is visible to other site users for the purposes of showing many examples of a particular yarn in the database, it is intended to be a personal inventory and it is not a storefront. Ravelers can mark stash items “for sale or trade”, but any arrangements made to buy yarn from other site users is between you and the seller. Ravelry is not involved in these transactions and is not responsible for …
• Community Eye Candy: 5 million!
  We are so excited that on Sunday, February 1, we hit the amazing milestone of 5 million Ravelers!  It is wonderful to have such a huge, warm community of people who love fiber arts just like us.  To celebrate, today’s Community Eye Candy focuses on some 5 millionths, and the number 5. First up, let’s look at some 5 millionths from around the site.  Clockwise from top right: the 5 millionth finished project, 1i1monkee’s Aran cardigan, the 5 millionth project, theyarnprincess’ …
• people under the community tab
  Community Tab: PeopleSearch for PeopleIt’s Finished!Friends’ UpdatesNewest RavelersYour NeighborsFinished Objects From Everyone This page features: Search for people It’s Finished! Friends Updates Newest Ravelers Your Neighbors Finished Objects from Everyone Search for People Typing a Raveler’s name takes you to the advanced search for people, which means all Ravelers. It’s Finished! This is a randomly static image of a project that has been marked finished by the project owner. …
• Ravelry's New Look: a Check-in
  … disorders and visual needs, and we are being as thoughtful as possible in our approach and research in order to make the best decisions we can to help the most people. We are currently conducting a readability survey and have sent it to specific groups of Ravelers with different visual needs. When we have more complete data from the readability survey, some of the post-launch changes we made may be adjusted based on that data. Web Accessibility   Since early May, we have been using Treo.sh to …