Handy! Let’s Look at an Individual Pattern Page Or if you’re browsing, you can use the “sort by” menu on the upper right to re-order the patterns by date of publication or alphabetically by name.Ĭan you save patterns? Yes, just log into your MDK account and use the little bookmark icon to save a pattern to your MDK account, the same way you would save a post. On the left side of the screen, you can search the patterns by Field Guide, category (type of knitwear), yarn or yarn weight (you know you bought that Atlas to make something, but what was it again?), or needle size. 24), there are a lot of MDK patterns to choose from, and now you can find them all. With 23 Field Guides published (and counting down to No. Let’s take a look around! The Main Patterns Page Click on it, and you will find yourself in a place where you can browse dreamily for your next project, and you can also find information and help for the patterns you’ve already cast on. In the navigation bar on the MDK homepage, the Patterns tab sits at the right hand of the MDK logo. It was a new feature that we really wanted: a Patterns page. As we worked on the redesign, there were plenty of sticks: a lot of back-end functionalities needed improvement, or else!īut there was one beautiful, dangling carrot that kept us motivated to get to launch day. It can take a little bit of organisation to start your queue but once you have it, it is easy to browse all the things you want to knit and find where to access the patterns.Updating a website is a situation where the carrot and stick approach is really in play. And if the pattern isn’t yet in the database, there are straightforward instructions to help you add it so you, and others, can track it down again in the future. But if you search for the sweater on Ravelry and add it to your queue it will be much easier to find it in the future (as long as you keep the magazine). The queue function also comes in handy when you spot a pattern in a magazine or book, or even in a pattern selection in a shop, that you might want to make in the future.įor example, it can be very frustrating flicking through a pile of magazines trying to remember where you saw that perfect cabled sweater. Below I’m saving the particular UK Hand Knitting pattern I want to use – now I have the details for when I’m ready to buy and use it. Once you have picked out a pattern you might want to make, you can save it to your “queue” – a list of patterns you like on your own account, which is very handy because it is easy to find the pattern again. I could also have searched for a particular yarn that I have in my stash to find patterns using it. I could further narrow down my search by clicking to only search for patterns using 4ply and including preemie sizes.
You can also use the search box to look for patterns using a particular yarn or brand or from a particular source.įor example in the screengrab below, you can see a search for UK Hand Knitting which has brought up images for our baby patterns. You can also choose options such as types of colour work, whether there are lace or cables, and even styles of pattern such as written versus charts.Īs you make your choices the range of patterns reduces until you have a manageable number to browse. To narrow down you search you can choose different types of pattern in terms of knitting versus crochet, clothing or other projects, size, and yarn weight etc. You can just browse popular patterns on the site but several hundred thousand options would take a while, so Ravelry has created a range of filters to help you find what you are looking for. Most entries include a picture or several, yarn and needles details and where to find the pattern (for example the leaflet number or magazine edition, and whether it is available online). Ravelry, the online knitting and crochet community, has a database with over 400,000 knitting and 200,000 crochet patterns including patterns from books, leaflets and magazines. Your local yarn store owner will no doubt have an almost encyclopaedic knowledge of patterns available, but if you still can’t find what you are looking for, another useful tool is. There are a number of answers including a wide range of knitting and crochet magazines, and browsing the pattern leaflets at your local yarn shop. When our Yarn Doctors are out and about on our stands at craft shows, one of the regular questions that people ask is “where can I find patterns?”.
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