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No Sew Cat Toy by Café del Craft

Free Crochet Pattern Here

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I decided to make a post about Ravelry

I’ve recommended it to many people over the years, mostly elders who hadn’t considered the internet being that useful, and usually they’re like, “aw? A website? No thanks, it’s not necessary”. Which is fine even if internally I was like “plsssss no it’s so good”. 

A lot of gen-z are getting into fiber crafting and that is exciting.

So, here’s a little intro

This is the homepage, after making an account 

Up on the top right is your notebook, which you’ll probably visit the most because it contains all of the tools for organizing your projects.

That’s your notebook, on the left bar are your various tools. Projects are lined up neatly on the rest of the screen. There’s a Handspun tab for spinners, Stash is where you organize your yarns, uQeue is where you list upcoming projects, Favorites is where you can save and organize your favorite projects/patterns, Needles & Hooks gives you a chart that you can fill in with what you already own, Library is a digital library of patterns and even representations of the physical books that you own.

Each of these can be customized, for example in favorites in there is a place to bundle them, so that if you wanted to say make a bundle of everything you want to knit as Christmas presents throughout the year, you can do that. In Queue you can link the called for yarn and the yarn you are going to use, linked from stash or otherwise, you can make notes on each entry. I will often note whether I need needles and what kind, so that if I drop by the store, the info I need is just a couple of clicks away. There is even a place in the stash to note where you got your yarn and how much it cost.    

I’m not going much more deeper into that, but if ya’ll want me to do a post about specific tools let me know. 

The most attractive part of Ravelry for me is easily searchable database of patterns.

If you click on the Patterns button at the top left of the homepage, it takes you here.

I typically go straight to pattern browser & advanced search through the link under the search bar. 

The great part of this are the filters on the left. You can filter by category of clothing, if and how it’s in your notebook, by craft type, by it’s availability (like whether it’s free, downloadable, or purchased elsewhere), whether or not it has photos (because there are many self-published designers), by attributes such as shape, techniques, texture, and types of colorwork, by age, size, ease, fit, and gender, by weight of the yarn called for, by yardage required, by number of colors used, by pattern source, by needle size, by star rating, by difficulty, by origin of crochet terminology, and by language. There are many more search options after the main filters. 

So for example if I had exactly 700 yards of worsted eight yarn in two colors, and I knew I wanted to make a scarf, using bobbles and colorwork, I could search that. 

Not only that, but you can customize the filters to combine traits:

I could make my selections and hit advanced where I’ve circled in red and,

specify that I want merino, and cashmere, or silk, but not nylon. I still got 27 matches from that search, but that’s how big the database is. 

And the same goes for the yarn tab at the top left of the homepage next to patterns. You can search through pretty much every yarn available, from red heart to indie fiber artists, using similar characteristics to narrow it down.

I hope someone found this useful and if you’re a knitter or crocheter, it’s seriously worth a look. I’m not very active lately, but It’s where I go for inspiration if nothing else.  

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I’m not dead, I promise, just very busy!

Oof it’s been ages since I posted here! But I’ve been lurking and working!

I’ve been working on a massive shop update today and will be for the coming days probably. So in the following days/weeks I will be sharing many photo’s of products that are now available for purchase in my store! A few days ago I also gave my webshop a little facelift, I’m happy with the results! 

Starting today with another one of the sets of mandala’s. These are perfect for adding some colour to your room. They’re available in three sets of three each as ready to ship or you can request your own colours!

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I finished the painted sunset scarf yesterday! Almost a year after getting this gorgeous pattern and yarn in the YLA Box I have finished it!

The pattern is by Craftlikekim and the gorgeous yarn is dipinto tramonto by Langyarns NL

Once I figure out an appropriate price and take some good photo’s it will be available in my shop smiley

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I finished the Wooloo yesterday! Just need to wait for the varnish on my buttons to dry and attach that and then it’s ready for shipping! This is by far the biggest plush I’ve ever made. I sure hope my friend likes it!

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I’m joining in with a mini CAL, started last week and due to personal reasons I didn’t get to start until a few days ago. But, I’m well on my way with it now, this is part one done! CAL is hosted by Huisje van Katoen

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My elephant is done! 🐘

What a fun pattern! Love the amount of customisation that is available with amigurumi 😁

Pattern by Dendennis for YLA Box

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I think I know what I will be doing tonight!This kit is gorgeous! 😍 I feel so lucky to have won this!

This is the eco XL punch needle kit from Studio Koekoek

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Started something new again now the flags are done.This is also a YLA Box pattern, from the September box from last year.

Geez, I am far behind on these projects 😅😂

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When things start growing again that means it's really spring right?

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I finished my flags! Love these bright colours so much! 😍

Pattern from YLA Box 

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Year of yarn - April 3rd - WIPW Today I’m working on a bright project again. This is from the YLA box from last September I think.

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Remember that pillow I started on last Friday? It’s all done!

What a fun and fast pattern! And this yarn is just awesome to work with! Thanks YLA Box for an awesome box again!

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NaKniCroMo - day 31 - how did you do?

Remember that goal I set myself at the beginning of the month? To catch up with the CAL? Well I guess I failed that because I didn’t catch up. Made a lot of headway on it though, was just on part two when I started and on part 6 now. But what I find way more important is that I’ve had so much fun doing it!

On my second goal of making stock I did get some things done, but I will go even more at that the coming six weeks!

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Day 24: Most complicated pattern 🍃

Sooo… technically not complicated, but rather a win over the intimidating dragon scale/crocodile stitch:

I credit this (free) pattern for helping me to finally grasp the stitch concept and make four pairs of gift mitts:

Don'cha just love a good crafting conquest? 🤗❤

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I don’t remember seeing yours finished before. It’s gorgeous though!!

Naknicromo Days 22/23 - longest/biggest projects

I don’t usually love big projects, but I did love doing my tempCAL last year.