[Nfb-krafters-korner] ravelry announces separate category for loom knit p...

[Sarah Sykes]

And the loomers rejoice!!! I'm so glad they finally did this, even though
I'm not a loomer. No, loom knitting is not the same as hand knitting, but
that doesn't make it a non-legitimate craft, and that certainly doesn't
mean loomers aren't in need of a database for their patterns. I'm glad
Ravelry finally wised up.


On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:56 PM, <Blindhands at aol.com> wrote:

> What timing for all.  Sara will be doing a Chat on June 10 for  Ravelry.
> We also will be having a guest speaker [Crystal] that will be at  a Chat
> [date not set yet] to talk about getting around on Ravelry.  Sara's  chat
> will
> be general information telling us what Ravelry is all about.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 5/27/2013 11:45:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> flowersandherbs at gmail.com writes:
>
> hi all  loomers,
> I am posting this from another list for  the loom knitters  here and the
> interest in ravelry.
> I have been one who has been wishing that  ravelry would allow one to
> search for patterns by loom knit specifically and  now you can! here are
> more
> details.
>
> Cathy
>
> Today it is official -  loom knitting is real knitting.
>
> The back story:
> For the past few  months, the loom knitting patterns at Ravelry (over 800
> of them) have been  under a cloud. Ravelry had made a category for machine
> knit projects, (not  patterns), but refused to do the same for loom knit
> projects or patterns,  claiming that loom knitting was not real knitting.
> When
> pressed, Ravelry even  said that loom knit patterns should not be added to
> the
> database, and those  already in the database would be "tolerated" for now,
> but could be removed in  the future.
>
> This made us very sad.
>
> This morning, after pressure  from the machine knitters to make an official
> category for machine knit  patterns, Ravelry reversed themselves, and, as
> an after thought, they added a  category for loom knit patterns, too.
>
> We are real knitters, and we  have a real pattern database.
>
> Well, almost.
>
> All the patterns  already in Ravelry, all 800, need to be edited and the
> craft designation  changed from "knitting" to "loom knitting". The
> designers
> who entered their  patterns at Ravelry have to do this themselves. If
> someone
> else put the  pattern on Ravelry, it can be edited without the designer.
> You can look at the  patterns, and there will be a little yellow pencil
> icon
> at the top of the  page. If the pencil is grey, you can not edit the
> pattern.
> If the pencil is  yellow, you click on it an change the craft category to
> "loom knitting".
>
> When you go to the advanced pattern search page, you'll now see "loom
> knitting" followed by a number - the number of patterns in the database.
> Last
> check it was 83, so we have almost 700 more to change over.
>
>
>
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