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How to Add a Pattern to Ravelry

Ravelry is an online community of people who love to work with yarn. Spinner, weavers, dyers, knitters, and crocheters use this free site as a place to share ideas and patterns. People can submit patterns as free downloads or sell their pattern PDFs there. Getting involved will mean finding your own yarn-ing family!

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    Go to the Ravelry website and get a username and password so you can log into the site.
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    Log on to Ravelry and go to the "my notebook" tab. Click on "contributions" from the pull-down menu.
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    Check the search option to see if your pattern name is already in use or has been added by someone else.
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    Choose and enter a designer name for yourself.
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    Enter as much detailed information as possible about your pattern.
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    Click on the "save" button at the bottom of the page--this is very important.
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    Add photos of your pattern.
    • When you click "save," you will be directed to the pattern page. Simply click on the photo tab there to add photos of your pattern.
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    Add additional patterns by going to your designer page and clicking on "manage store."
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    Agree to the "Terms of Use and Pricing."
    • You have to do this to proceed even if you are offering a pattern for free (even though the terms of this agreement will not apply to free downloads).
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    Click "add pattern."
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    Upload and save your file.
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    Activate the product by clicking on the "Activate Product" button.
    • You must activate it in order to allow other Ravelry users to have access to the pattern.

EditTips

  • Once you are a designer on Ravelry, you can continue to add patterns as free PDF downloads, or you can sell them through Ravelry for a small fee using your Paypal account.
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  • You can edit your patterns by clicking on the yellow pencil symbol at the top of the page.
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  • You can set up a store by clicking on your designer name on the pattern page and opening your designer profile page. Fill out this profile and click on the "manage store" tab.
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EditWarnings

  • No PDF file can be larger than 50 MB.
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