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Selling Patterns on Ravelry
… page.
Note that this is not possible until you have an existing Ravelry Store, so if you are publishing for the first time, you will have to upload your PDF after publishing. After that, the uploading to a draft pattern option will be available to you.
Adding a pattern to your store that was already published after selling rights revert back to you
If a pattern of yours is already in the database because it was published by a third party (ex. a magazine), but now the rights to sell it have …
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Tip: New Photo Uploader
… is an improved feature – our new photo uploader for pictures in your notebook and on pattern and yarn pages. With the new uploader we have simplified the existing tasks of uploading your photos as well as adding enhancements like captions and personal preference settings.
Uploading
The new photo uploader can be found on notebook items as well as yarn and pattern pages; click the photos tab to open the uploader. Once it is open you have the option to upload from your device, any linked accounts …
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Ravelry Free Pattern Downloads
… database, and it’s connected to your Ravelry profile, you’re ready to set up your Ravelry store and upload your .pdf pattern!
Account Set-up and Store Management
After publishing your first pattern to the Ravelry database, you’ll see the option to add the pattern to your pattern store. Click on that button if you’d like to add your pattern right away:
If you want to add the .pdf to an existing pattern entry, you can do so from the Manage Store tab that you’ll see on your Designer page …
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general editing guidelines and a guide to setting up source pages
… menu associated with your Ravatar) so you can find them again easily. (The words “volunteer editor” are added under your Ravatar on your profile page, also.)
You do not have to adopt to edit many pattern or yarn entries. On source pages, if you don’t see the tiny yellow pencil, you won’t be able to edit or upload cover images whether you have adopted or not. To help with these, post in the Ravelry editors group and share the cover image or the information to help fill in the source page.
Not …
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How to upload PDFs using devices with iOS 9.
For a long time it was only possible to upload pattern PDFs to the Ravelry store from iPhones or iPads if you used a paid browser.
Now you can use Safari, so long as you’re using iOS 9.
The first thing is to make sure you’re using iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Google Drive. (There might be other cloud options too.) Store your PDFs there.
Using Safari, go to “manage store” on Ravelry and choose the pattern to which you want to add a PDF.
Tap the “choose file …
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ebook setup
… or the ebook feature.
There are two parts to this, as with setting up patterns: the pattern database and the store, your pro tab area.
On the pattern database side of things, you must have a source page for the ebook just as you must have a pattern entry for a single pattern PDF. The PDF uploads to the source page.
The patterns already have published pages on Ravelry
At the pattern entry in the database, edit each pattern page one by one and use the “add source” link under the existing …
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Notebook : Library
… and see what Ravelry finds to match. Select the correct item and press “add to library” or “search again” to keep looking.
Click on “stop adding items” by the search box when you’re finished.
It isn’t possible to upload PDFs that aren’t Ravelry downloads or any other type of pattern instructions to the library.
Adding multiple items
If you type in a word such as knit, you will get a list of magazines that start with the word Knit and can select as many issues as you wish from this list using …
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Patterns, main tab
… aren’t currently listed on Ravelry. How do I add them?There’s no photo on such-and-such pattern - how do I add one?Other fun pointsShare a group of patterns
On the Patterns tab, you will find a group of recently added patterns, as well as a list of the most commonly cast-on patterns. You can search for your favorite designer, or for the pattern to your next creation. When you upload pictures of your projects, they are available to other Ravelers who might be interested in making that project …
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Software tools for fiber artists
… font is also offered as a free download.
Stitch Fiddle - a tool for knitting, crochet, and cross-stitch patterns.
knitPro - knitPro is a web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Just upload jpeg, gif or png images of whatever you wish -- portraits, landscapes, logos… and it will generate the image pattern on a grid sizable for any fiber project.
VisiKnit - translates written out instructions into a chart image; this is …
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Bundles: a feature for grouping things together
… used for cover images even if the posts have images in them.
There’s no function for adding photos that are online elsewhere to this location; it needs to be offered from a pattern page in the bundle or uploaded from your device according to the instructions given.
Change the picture for this bundle only
If you favorite a pattern and the picture you like best is the third down, you can edit the favorite listing and use the “change the picture for this bundle only” link to see the picture you …
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Purchases, patterns, minimart, extras, paypal
… that’s needed for this.
When you get the email with the link to your pattern, there’s a little check box for “in my library”. Make sure that box is checked.
The Ravelry Extra, uploading directly to forum posts, can be sent as a gift as well.
Ravelry patterns are nontransferrable. Because the download link to a pattern cannot be removed from the purchases section of your notebook, patterns received via Ravelry download may not be resold or gifted without permission from the original copyright …
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Tip: start a project from your phone!
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Click on the Ravelry logo on the top left and the mobile site menu will expand. From here, you can quickly start a project in several ways: from the projects section of your Notebook, from the Ravelry pattern page, from your queue, or (this is a mobile-only feature), scroll down to the “upload a photo” link at the bottom of the site navigation and create a new project from there.
In this post I’ll share how to add a project from the projects section of your Notebook. First, click on …
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Getting Your Photos on Ravelry
… 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 many ways to get photos on Ravelry; how to do it depends on what type of photo you wish to add and where it is stored.
Ravatar …
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Uploading to Projects and Stash from Your Mobile Device
… roll to find the photo you wish to add. Click on it and choose “done”. You can click more than one if you would like to add more than one prior to clicking “done”. That will take you back to your project/stash entry and you can click the “upload” button.
You will see a little progress bar come up.
Once it is finished your image will show in the row of images near the top of the screen. If you didn’t want that image added after all, you can click the little “x” below the image.
Adding …
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General Permission
… information on how to request that slurping be turned on, see this page.
Also, watch out for publisher-linked companies/pattern lines where there is an official representative adding images without slurping! You can find their account Ravatars on the editing tab.
Book and magazine covers may be used even if the company is not on the above photo permission list. Use the tools on the photo tab to upload a picture to Ravelry. If you aren’t sure you won’t be hotlinking, you can save a copy to your …
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Notebook : Bibliothek (Library)
… in the book. Also, at present, magazines aren’t included in the library. In the future they will be, along with PDFs of downloads or pattern purchases, etc.
You can do this as often as you like. Anytime you update your Library Thing account, export the list again and re-upload it here. Ravelry’s system won’t add a book a second time--unless you actually click to add it because you’ve got a second copy.
And one more note
Sometimes all these steps can be followed and …
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Baby Surprise Jacket, pattern by Elizabeth Zimmermann. The Baby Surprise Jacket Group has compiled this wiki and offers help within the discussion area for your projects!
… , and then pick up the other 10 stitches on the wrong side row. It is one of two places where there are actions beyond “knit all” on the wrong side rows. The other place is the neck decreases. All other changes are on the right side rows (as the pattern is written).
see this on Flickr
When you look carefully at the two DOWN arrows (the pick up stitches), you’ll see that the two sides are picked up on different rows - one side is picked up from a ‘right side’ row and one side is picked up from …
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Designer Quick Start Guide selling patterns
… at the menu associated with your Ravatar in the upper right corner and select Contributions. You’ll see the option to add a pattern you designed - select that, and our system will walk you through the process of adding a pattern to the Ravelry database!
Step 2: Once you’ve published the pattern to the database, you’ll be prompted to add it to your Ravelry store for uploading a PDF for free or for sale, if you’re publishing as a Ravelry download:
Step 3: In your Ravelry store, you …
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Helpful Details for Designers
… -term help.
Once you have chosen an assistant, go to the Editors tab on your Designer page. In the lower left you will see stuff about adding a buddy; just follow the steps in the screenshots below to allow that person access to editing your patterns. Your assistant will have all of the same tools for editing that you do, and you can then work together to keep your patterns up-to-date and correct. This does not give your assistant access to upload or update the PDFs.
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PayPal issues related to Ravelry purchases
… with payment optionsProblems with paymentPayment “on hold”Vendor ChoicesVendor/Purchaser LocationPayPal Error MessagesCurrency IssuesAlternative Methods of Payment
PayPal is and always has been the only option for purchasing patterns as Ravelry downloads from designers/publishers, advertising on Ravelry, the Extra for uploading photos directly to the forums, and Ravelry merchandise through/from the site. Credit card use has always been processed through PayPal, even if it seemed like a …