RavelryReviews of ravelry.com

It's been over a week since I'm waiting for an issue being solved regarding the missing "contribution" button of my account. All I've recieved is an automated email. Since then they've ghosted me. I've barely even started my journey with them, but I am already dissappointed. I am done with them, can not expect any future support if they can not even reply on my email, let alone fix the issue

Ik ben heel blij met Ravelry Ik doe mee met de wedstrijd Sockmadness forever en Supersock World Championship Gezellige praatgroepen, altijd meelevend en netjes Over politiek geen woord! Ook koop ik wel eens een patroon en dat gaat altijd goed

Love it! Great resource for pattern hunting and seeing others finished projects. Love Love love.

Zwingt Kunden ein Paypal-Konto auf. Gastzahlungen werden nur zum Anteasern zwar vereinzelt angeboten, aber das ist Bauernfängerei. Das ist nicht kundenfreundlich.

Ravelry is the best thing that has happened to knitting since probably the invention of knitting itself. Those of us who grew up in homes where knitting was not a family passion, far from big cities with excellent libraries, and before the internet became part of everyday life, will remember how hard it was to find patterns. Often, the only option was subscribing to magazines. That could be enjoyable, but even that modest monthly cost was not affordable for everyone. And even when it was, you might find only one pattern in an issue that truly inspired you. If you then got stuck on the instructions, you were left scratching your head, improvising, and quite possibly giving up. Then Ravelry arrived and solved an extraordinary number of problems at once. Patterns: you could suddenly search using an astonishing range of criteria. Free or paid, garment or accessory, yarn weight, fibre, size, construction, techniques — it became possible to find exactly what you wanted. Yarn: you could look up yarns by name or characteristics and, crucially, see what other people had actually made with them. That gave you a far better sense of whether a yarn would suit your project than any marketing photo ever could. Learning: you could browse hundreds of real-life projects and see how a pattern turned out away from flattering professional photography. You could learn what happened when people substituted yarn, what modifications they made, and how the result varied depending on shape, skill, or taste. Groups could also provide support and advice. Designers: designers selling on Ravelry are often only a message away. If something in a pattern does not quite make sense and you have exhausted other options, that access can be invaluable. As far as I am concerned, Ravelry is not really social media. I see it as my own private library, knitting academy, and record-keeping vault. I have records of my stash, tools, patterns, started projects, finished projects, notes, and a queue of future makes that keeps growing faster than I can knit. The site is functional, useful, and free. I do not need bells and whistles. If I want to doom-scroll other people’s achievements while making nothing myself, I can always go to Pinterest or Instagram. As for the many negative reviews here: a great number seem to stem less from the platform itself than from an old political controversy and the grudges it left behind. That is not to say every criticism is invalid — no website is perfect, and complaints about customer support, for example, may be fair. But many of the one-line reviews here are plainly not genuine assessments of Ravelry as a knitting resource. Personally, without Ravelry I would never have had free access to so much information, inspiration, and knowledge. I did not come from a family of knitters, and I do not know many knitters even now. Ravelry opened up an entire world. Long live Ravelry, and long live knitting.

Awful user experience. Awful website design. Awful customer service.

Forum moderators are obsessed with accusing people of hate speech…from both sides, left and right. They’ve lost the plot.

I like that the website is anti Trump and Maga, such hateful politics should not be on a crafting site. Take your hateful politics to someone else. The site is otherwise very good for both finding free patterns or buying patterns that support those who made them.