It’s at https://slippedstitches.com
I am keeping this forum politics free. I want us to focus on the things we have in common and give us one small area where we don’t have to have politics intrude. This will be a small forum and I hope we’ll have some interesting discussions.
The parrots are being loaded up, and will be leaving for their new home in Utah. I’m not sure if he’s also taking the cockatoo, which has a home with his brother in Florida. We are letting the two brothers sort it out.
Lots of interesting discussions about Ravelry on the Walkaway group at Facebook. There seems to be some agreement that Ravelry lends itself to mindless pattern searches and working on designs that we might not do otherwise. Folks that have left have discovered that they have more patterns than they will ever use. And I do believe we will see a return to creativity. Ravelry doesn’t really lend itself to more complicate projects that take time. It’s too easy to get swept up in some KAL. I deleted my account last week. I’m actually getting a lot of spinning done. And I really love all my new Bosworth spindles! I started what will be a spindle spun sweater. I’d already been working on one of the yarns but I don’t really have enough for the whole sweater. So I’ll do a circular yoke sweater, my own design. It’s already fun!
I’ve realized that Ravelry’s only value to me was using the advanced search to make a pattern/yarn match. You know, “I want to make a shawl with 650 yards of lace weight, what’s available?” Other than that, I find being away from it curiously liberating. I think the site fostered a lot of competition and one-upmanship.
That had been the same response as others have had. Someone mentioned that people were almost greedy about patterns and yarns. And it didn’t lend itself to longer, more complicated projects. Leaving Ravelry will unleash our creativity again.
Ultimately Ravelry was not by friend. I agree that I developed a sort of yarn envy and bought a few skeins with no idea of what I’d use them for.
Just recovering from a bacterial pneumonia, so I haven’t been up on the news. Site looks lovely and well designed.
Hope you feel better soon! Take good care of yourself.
I am also getting a lot more done project-wise. And . . . I’m going back to the multitudes of books that I have for patterns and inspiration. I’ve realized that I was ignoring some really great designs due to Ravelry. I’ll save money as I made some extraneous purchases due to hype by some of the podcasters – many of which say they “Stand With Ravelry”. Looking forward to enjoying my fibers without the stress of “keeping up with the who’s who in the fiber world”.
I’ve always preferred to see what every day people are making. Any time a site or magazine goes to showing you waht the experts do, I lose interest.
Undine, like you, I found I turned to Ravelry for the power and finesse of their search filters. To me, that is the site’s greatest strength, one that I miss. Oh, also the projects where other folks posted in pros, cons, and peculiarities to a pattern they’d worked: often that helped me decide whether to buy or pass.
What I did and do truly deplore is Rav’s utter dedication to pushing their own particular social agenda. I do NOT like predigested pablum crammed down my throat. I do NOT like partisan flags promoted by what should be just a crafting site.
But that is what’s giving OurUnraveled its vitality and attractiveness. Thank God for free market options, eh?