You’re a yarn manufacturer, and you want to sell yarn. While there are many avenues where you can advertise your yarns - knitting magazines, Facebook, Instagram, and in-person at industry shows - those often cost money with difficult to measure results. We also know that...
Ravelry’s Challenges Ravelry originally revolutionized the yarn and fiber crafts industry. A decade on, however, its place in the industry is shifting. Remember, when Ravelry went live, Instagram didn’t exist yet, and Facebook was still primarily the domain of college kids. A lot has changed since...
This is the story of one user’s experience with Ravelry. We’ll call her “YarnWrangler.” Recently, YarnWrangler logged into Ravelry to create a project page for a KAL she had joined. She was surprised to realize that she hadn’t created a new project for a full...
Whenever we head over to Ravelry to check out the patterns on the Hot Right Now (HRN) list or see what new yarns have been added to the database, we can almost always guarantee that we’re going to see fingering-weight shawl patterns on the HRN...
We took another snapshot of the Ravelry Hot Right Now (HRN) pattern list during the third week of September 2016. It was a particularly interesting week as it was marked by the release of the Brooklyn Tweed Fall 16 Look Book and Tin Can Knits’...
When we publish these Ravelry updates, our goal is to share the insights we have gleaned from studying trends in patterns, yarns, projects and designers as they are reflected on this user-driven fiber-centric social media site. There’s no denying that Ravelry has changed the yarn,...
For this month’s Ravelry update, we thought we would take a look at how project photography correlates with pattern popularity. More specifically, does how a project is portrayed affect its popularity? Is there a standard or convention for different types of garments in project photography?...
For this month’s Ravelry update, we spent a few days tracking the Hot Right Now list. It’s not an easy thing to do, because the list can shift before your eyes as you are trying to catalogue it. So this post is based on a...