It's not an invite like the old lj system, it's a waiting list. The people running it (I'm speculating) didn't quite expect it to be as popular as it is so they put the list up to control it. Just sign up to it on the main page you see if you don't have a login.
It does so much it's quite difficult to explain. I would so reccomend signing up though. Even fi you decide not to use it, there's no harm in it!
lets see, an example is that I would like to knit the juno regina shawl thats on the new knitty. You can type juno regina in, and it brings up everyone who is currently listed as making it, or who have made it. I can then nosey at what yarns they've used and what colour ways they have used. Mostly because I don't want to pay £34 to make it!
You can dig through your stash, find you have six balls of something you've forgotten about. Type it in and see what other people have made with the same yarn.
You can list the knitting and crochet books you own, then click on them and see real life things people have made from the books.
Then there's forums etc too. These are the things I've discovered so far. I doubt I've explained it too well, but even if you're not interested in the community side of things, just for reference purposes it's fantastic. There are curently over 35,500 users.
Loads of stuff! Catalogues and databases yarn and patterns and things you make, and cross references them all beautifully. You can look at your stash listing, and click a link from yarn A to see what other people have made with it to get ideas. You can find the pattern you're thinking of knitting, and look at other people's pictures and what they thought of it, and read their linked blog posts (Ravelry doesn't have an inbuilt blog, but it's good at linking to external ones). And, for that matter, you can add patterns to your 'queue' so you can find them again later. You can filter patterns by type, by tag, by freeness of pattern, and do loads of talking to people (which I haven't really got into yet) - each pattern and each yarn has its own messageboard, and there are general messageboards on all sorts of knitting-related subjects. It would have helped with your lace scarf question the other day :-)
Do this thing! :) You may have to wait - I had to wait almost a month for my invitation - but I'm loving it already. I'm there as - wait for it - ifimust. :)
ooh yes, sign up to the waiting list, and then let us know, I'm zoorockgirl there, and although I haven't listed all of my projects, it is endlessly tempting!
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Date: Monday, 12 November 2007 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Monday, 12 November 2007 09:09 pm (UTC)lets see, an example is that I would like to knit the juno regina shawl thats on the new knitty. You can type juno regina in, and it brings up everyone who is currently listed as making it, or who have made it. I can then nosey at what yarns they've used and what colour ways they have used. Mostly because I don't want to pay £34 to make it!
You can dig through your stash, find you have six balls of something you've forgotten about. Type it in and see what other people have made with the same yarn.
You can list the knitting and crochet books you own, then click on them and see real life things people have made from the books.
Then there's forums etc too. These are the things I've discovered so far. I doubt I've explained it too well, but even if you're not interested in the community side of things, just for reference purposes it's fantastic. There are curently over 35,500 users.
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Date: Monday, 12 November 2007 09:12 pm (UTC)(Umm, I'm a convert. Can you tell?)
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