Workshop from the Feb. 13, 2016 meeting of the Inner City group of the Knitters Guild NSW

1. INTRO TO RAVELRY
Where knitters meet online
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2. AGENDA
➤ What’s Ravelry? Why should I care?
➤ General tour of Ravelry features
➤ How to upload photos
➤ How to use the forums
➤ The Guild’s Ravelry presence
➤ Knitters Guild NSW Group
➤ Inner City Group
➤ ICKG Library
➤ Tips and tricks from your fellow knitters

3. WHAT’S RAVELRY
ALL ABOUT ANYWAY?

4. RAVELRY HISTORY

6. YOU’VE GOT A
RAVELRY ACCOUNT
Now what?
(If not - http://goo.gl/GEP6vC)

11. YOUR PATTERNS MAKE RAVELRY BETTER

12. ADDING PHOTOS

13. FLICKR
➤ http://www.flickr.com
➤ Free to join and upload up to
1TB of photos (that’s
500,000!)
➤ Desktop and mobile apps for
uploading
➤ Easily links to your Ravelry
account!

16. PHOTOBUCKET
➤ http://photobucket.com/
➤ Free to join and upload up to
2GB of photos
➤ Desktop and mobile apps for
uploading (as well as
connecting to Facebook)
➤ Ability to print your photos on
lots of things
➤ Easily links to your Rav
account!

17. “SLURP FROM WEB”
“UPLOAD FROM COMPUTER”

18. HOW TO GET AN IMAGE URL

19. “UPLOAD FROM INSTAGRAM”

20. MOBILE APPLICATIONS
m.ravelry.com Ravulous - Android Wooly - iOS Yarma - iOS

21. REORDERING, RE-CENTERING, AND REMOVING
➤ Click and drag photos to reorder them
➤ Click and drag the icon to re-center
➤ Click the icon to remove an image

22. ORGANISING YOUR PROJECTS

23. ORGANISING YOUR PROJECTS

24. HANDSPUN & STASH

25. QUEUE

26. FAVOURITES

27. FRIENDS AND THEIR ACTIVITY

28. LIBRARY

29. LIBRARY - ADDING A BOOK OR PATTERN

30. LIBRARY - RAVELRY PATTERNS

31. BUT HOW DO WE FIND
PATTERNS?

36. YOUR PATTERN VIEWING HISTORY
➤ Linked from Patterns page -
http://www.ravelry.com/
patterns/history
➤ Shows every pattern you
looked at and when
➤ Searchable!

37. NOW FOR SOME
YARN

41. PEOPLE…
6 MILLION OF ‘EM

43. PROFILE PAGE

44. UGH

45. FORUMS

48. RADAR

49. USEFUL STUFF IN SETTINGS

50. HOW TO START A TOPIC

51. HOW TO REPLY TO A TOPIC

52. POSTING A PHOTO FROM THE WEB
➤ Click on the icon
➤ Paste in a URL from a blog or
some other website
➤ Customise the “Image title”
text and leave the rest

53. POSTING A PHOTO FROM A PROJECT OR STASH
➤ Click on the icon
➤ Select the second option -
“Use a project or stash photo”
➤ Choose a photo and confirm
➤ Leave the text!

54. POSTING A PHOTO BY UPLOAD OR EMAIL - EXTRAS

55. MAGIC LINKS - HOW TO DO IT

56. MAGIC LINKS - THE END RESULT

57. OTHER TEXT EDITOR FUNCTIONS
1. Make things bold or italics
2. Link to websites
3. Quote text for a reply
4. Add an image
5. Add a webcam image
6. Add a video
7. Create a numbered list
8. Create a bulleted list
9. Create a heading
10.Undo and redo
11.Preview your post
12.Help!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

58. SHOP

60. QUICK SEARCH

62. GROUPS

64. OFFICIAL KNITTERS GUILD NSW GROUP

65. FINDING THE INNER CITY GROUP

67. THE INNER CITY GROUP LIBRARY

68. THE INNER CITY GROUP LIBRARY

69. THE INNER CITY GROUP LIBRARY - VIEWING THE BOOKS

70. THE INNER CITY GROUP - PAGES

71. THE INNER CITY GROUP - PAGES

72. TIPS & TRICKS
AND QUESTIONS

73. THANK YOU!
- Kris and Stefanie
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