What is happening with Ravelry?

So what happens now? It’s clear Ravelry is not currently interested in making more changes to support people who say the site is now unusable, leaving them needing to find alternatives (I’ve shared a post here with some information; there are even more details and options on this post from WIP Insanity.

Who owns Ravelry?

Ravelry, LLC
Ravelry/Owners

Is Ravelry safe?

Ravelry has a consumer rating of 3.21 stars from 500 reviews indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Consumers satisfied with Ravelry most frequently mention fiber arts, white supremacy and social media.

Is there an alternative to Ravelry?

There’s another new site in the works called ribblr: website | Instagram (contains more info) Yarn Database has searches for designers, yarn, and fibre, and the ability to save favourites, with no surprise Ravelry links. Patternosity describes itself as “a social marketplace for crocheters and knitters”.

What is the meaning of Ravelry?

: noisy partying or merrymaking.

How many Ravelry members are there?

8 million members
Ravelry is a niche website in terms of the broader internet, but with 8 million members, it’s the online center of the knitting world.

Is Ravelry social media?

Ravelry is a free social networking service and website that beta-launched in May 2007. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, spinning and weaving.

Who founded Ravelry?

Ravelry was founded by husband-and-wife team Casey and Jessica Forbes in 2007. It soon became a beloved website among knitters and other fiber artists, and its users formed many offshoot communities and subgroups that had nothing to do with knitting.

What is the most popular pattern on Ravelry?

Shawls
Shawls are, by far, the most popular pattern type that Ravelers look at; and, not surprisingly, projects requiring fingering weight yarn outnumber all other yarn weights combined.

How is Ravelry funded?

We offer pay-per-click, pay-per-impression, and flat rate advertising to companies that are related to yarn and the fiber arts. I wrote an ad serving system specifically for Ravelry – since we serve our own ads, we don’t pay any fees or commissions to anyone else.

Who are the most popular designers on Ravelry?

Top Sellers

• Bernat.
• Deramores.
• James C. Brett.
• Jenny Watson.
• McIntosh®
• View All Yarn.

Where is knitting most popular?

Germany is a top one, with its long history of textile and crafts. It’s known for producing high quality yarn and unique brands who make fabulous rich colours of yarns with various textures. Canada is also famed for knitting, which is understandable as a country that suffers harsh winters!

Is Ravelry a ‘safe space’ for politics in knitting?

And it’s no longer just about the knitting patterns: sites like Ravelry offer a “safe space” for discussing politics.

Is the online knitting community becoming more political?

The increased politicization of the online knitting world has come as part of a demographic shift. While the community still skews older and mostly female, it is fast diversifying. Millennials—who are generally more politically active and came of age in the AIM chatroom—are now signing up to Ravelry and its offshoots.

What does Ravelry’s ban mean for the future of censorship?

For Literat, Ravelry’s ban presents a litmus test for the future of niche-site censorship and whether it’s best to forge a single, politically homogenous community or to splinter fringe users off. It is also giving women a new way to become politicized online.

Can knitted products help fight for women’s rights?

In recent years, knitted products have become weapons in the fight for women’s rights, including a campaign to send knitted vaginas to male members of Congress, and the campaign during the first Women’s March in 2017 to wear pink “pussyhats” in protest of remarks made by Mr. Trump on the “ Access Hollywood” tape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctLIMQB5uc0