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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

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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