5/8/2023 0 Comments Ravelry patterns![]() ![]() ![]() Some knitters assassinate three or four others in the timeframe of the game." : 16 Marketplace Space ![]() If a player receives a finished pair of the socks in the mail before they have finished their own, they have been ‘assassinated’ and must send their incomplete socks to the assassin, who tries to finish them before being assassinated themselves. Participants sign up to play and they each begin knitting the socks (in this case the Detonator) on the same day. This is a game about speed knitting and good postal technique. "At the time of writing number three on the ‘most recent and popular’ list was ‘The Detonator’ – a sock pattern being used in the sock wars game. In addition to the structured organizational tools described above, Ravelry has forums which support many social activities such as knit-alongs, charity drives, and games such as "Sock Wars": By supporting the open browsing, modification, and re-mixing of patterns and projects in a social way, Ravelry can be considered a "virtual guild" which "rel on open access to specialized knowledge." This social capital can be used by craft learners to find answers to questions that they may not know the jargon to describe. Ravelry and other handcraft-based social networks are unique among social networks in that "t is not adequate to state that one is a knitter or crocheter – one must prove it through acts of labour and documentation." : 4 Social capital on Ravelry is "accumulated through extensive cataloguing of handmade items" : 3 and "is textually accessible through the way members interact with each other using articulated and manoeuvrable links (often in the concrete form of hyperlinks) to other members." : 12 Photos can be added to project and stash pages, and also to forum posts, by connecting to the user's own Flickr or Photobucket or Picasa or Instagram account or by uploading a photo directly from the user's computer or iPhone. The personal organizational tool is actually entirely public and we were able to create this database by encouraging people who share their projects and information (by using the organizational tools) to contribute to the yarn and pattern directory." Social Space įor social networking, the site has forums, groups, and friend-related features that give people ways to interact with other knitters, crocheters, weavers and spinners. If someone else has used a pattern or yarn, no matter how obscure, you can probably find information and project photos on Ravelry. "The community-edited yarn and pattern database is something that has never existed before. The database was created by encouraging people to share their projects and information. Ravelry also includes a searchable community-edited yarn and pattern database where users share information and project photos. Ravelry patterns can be added to a logged-in user's "Favorites," "Queue," or "Projects" pages, indicating that user's interest in, stated desire to make, or progress into the pattern, respectively a user can additionally record their fiber-related tools ("Needles & Hooks") and available yarn ("Stash") with which to complete these projects. Capabilities such as the user "Projects" album and pattern "Queue" are tools for personal organization. The labor space includes the capabilities which directly support making and documenting fiber arts projects. These many features are broken down by Maria Hellstrom into three capability spaces: labor, social, and marketplace. Often these features and enhancements are driven by the community. The site was in beta through early 2010, and new features and enhancements are still added frequently. the ability to re-sort information contained in a tab, create sub-tabs, or change the level of detail displayed). Some customization is available within the tabs (i.e. Information in Ravelry is organized within a series of tabs. "Ravelry has become the Internet tool to help the typical needle-wielder navigate through the woolly wild." Ravelry has been mentioned by Tim Bray as one "of the world’s more successful deployments of Ruby on Rails technologies." Īs of March 2020, Ravelry had almost 9 million registered users, and approximately 1 million monthly active users. Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. Their idea was to create a web presence for all fiber artists. Spouses Cassidy and Jessica Forbes founded Ravelry in May 2007. Members share projects, ideas, and their collection of yarn, fiber and tools via various components of the site. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, spinning and weaving. Ravelry is a free social networking service and website that beta-launched in May 2007. ![]()
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