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Ravelry Reviews Summary

Ravelry has a rating of 3.1 stars from 510 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Ravelry most frequently mention fiber arts, white supremacy and social media. Ravelry ranks 1st among Yarns sites.

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Hawaii
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Good on Ravelry for doing the right thing when it comes to disavowing hatred and bigotry. In today's world, de-platforming voices that speak hate is an undervalued public service.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Colorado
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Crafting for All
July 18, 2019

While I had other crafting hobbies, I wasn't into crochet before learning about Ravelry from the news. A crafting site that actually cares about justice, equality, and humanity too? Sign me up! I'm so excited for my new hobby and the wonderful caring environment to learn it in at Ravelry!

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
New Mexico
1 review
12 helpful votes
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A wonderful and modern platform with great patterns. I love your blog, too! The photos are show stuff trust looks classy and fun but also doable to beginners. Keep up the good work!

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Canada
1 review
12 helpful votes
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This site is a community full of wonderful, supportive, and inclusive individuals. The pattern selection is amazing and the amount of free content is wonderful! I am incredibly thankful that in this time full of hatred and fear that Ravelry has taken a stand for inclusiveness and love. It may sound counter intuitive, but a tolerant society cannot tolerate intolerance. Go Ravelry!

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Texas
1 review
12 helpful votes
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What's not to love?
July 18, 2019

Ravelry is free, functional, and easy to use. No one else is providing this type of service for yarn-artists, especially not for free. We are lucky to have the service and community they have built.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Nebraska
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I am so very glad to have such an open and welcoming community of folks dedicated to keeping the fiber arts alive.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Canada
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Fabulous!
July 18, 2019

Ravelry has done so much for the fiber arts community by creating a database of patterns and yarns. I love the project page feature where I can keep track of everything that I'm working on. I love that I can see what other people made with a specific yarn. Keep up the great work!

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
New York
1 review
11 helpful votes
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Good Job, Ravelry
July 18, 2019

It's all political, and Ravelry has decided to take a clear stand on evil. Good job. I am also a white American, and couldn't be more thrilled about Ravelry's statement.

Also, they're packed full of patterns. Best fiber arts database ever.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
New Jersey
1 review
34 helpful votes
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July 17, 2019

You should never have put politics in a crochet group. Sadly you did and apparently lost quite a few people. The sjw's of the world have taken over your group and like a sheep you follow along.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Illinois
1 review
30 helpful votes
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Has been site that's been taken over by the SJW. I am someone who is proud to be white and American and I support President Donald Trump Just like people from other places are proud to be who they are. Too bad I can't discuss my view point or hear others now.

Date of experience: July 17, 2019
Florida
1 review
20 helpful votes
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I joined as part of a group of crafters I'm 2011 and or was ok. Visiting recently I was impressed with the search and favoriting features. I especially like the maps of stores near me and the type searches for yarn.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
California
1 review
19 helpful votes
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Great site, full of more information than I can make use of, and with very supportive community to provide help, opinions, and fun.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
New York
1 review
44 helpful votes
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I am offended and disgusted by Ravelry's choice to make it a political platform. The owner could have kept his personal views private and not expressed his opinions in such a divisive, accusatory way. Apparently respect and acceptance were missing from his upbringing. I used to enjoy knitting in public but am starting to hear comments from people who unfortunately associate knitting with Ravelry's negativity. Way to go Ravelry. I guess you've ruined Knitting in Public day. Hopefully the more reputable vendors will offer an alternative outlet for their products so I can feel comfortable purchasing them. I have never participated in any of their blogs and have never considered knitting political. I respect the president of our country whether I agree with him or not. This does not make me a racist nor does it make me an advocate of white supremacy. My religious and political views are private and I am entitled to them without censorship from anyone or their website.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
Oregon
1 review
19 helpful votes
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First and foremost, it's a great site for people who knit, crochet, weave and/or spin, but more than that, they offer amazing tools for designers who want to sell patterns and stay in touch with their customers. There is really no other site that does this better, with such fair and affordable fees and advertising options for sellers. I also appreciate that users do not have to pay to get all the robust social media features, which is not always the case for craft-based social media sites.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
Canada
1 review
18 helpful votes
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I am new here and am very impressed by Ravelry. I came here for the politics, but stayed for the patterns. <3

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bigots
July 16, 2019

They are bias and very intolerant of views different from their own. Promotes harassment of people that don't think like them.

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
NL
1 review
20 helpful votes
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Sadly the racist us citizens can't understand that they are wrong in their ways. Ravelry takes a stand. In favour for all yarniacs, worldwide, against white supremacy.
Great webside, great founders, great people there and lots of georgeous patterns!

Date of experience: July 16, 2019
New York
1 review
15 helpful votes
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No matter how obscure the fiber art you're learning is, ravelry will have people who know how to do it. The pattern and yarn databases are incredibly helpful and the forums are full of great people.

Date of experience: July 15, 2019
Texas
1 review
24 helpful votes
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Simply the best
July 16, 2019

The original, not possible to duplicate, most useful yarn crafting site. This is first and foremost a site to organize, track, and search for patterns, yarns, and help.
The database programming that drives this site is the best out there for this type of crafting site.
Then to top it off, the people who run this site truly believe in not allowing hateful, harmful speech directed to marginalized groups.

Date of experience: July 15, 2019
South Carolina
1 review
42 helpful votes
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I bought many patterns from Ravelry over the years and wasn't even aware of the forums. I was just interested in the patterns and designers. I'm a knitter and crocheter. As soon as I was called a white supremacist for supporting the President of this country I couldn't support this site any longer. I just want to knit and crochet not talk or even hear politics! The owners of this site don't even know me! How could they even know if I was a white supremacist or not. That's ridiculous and foolish of them. Not a good business model in my opinion. And I'm a Christian. I tolerate and accept all people.

Date of experience: July 15, 2019