Guild member Lisa Barry presented a detailed walkthrough of Ravelry, a website with a database of patterns and yarns, and many other features. Lisa has been a Ravelry user for many years, and joined when the site was still in beta! We discussed how to use the site for projects like weaving and spinning, even though the site is intended mainly for knit and crochet.

Lisa walked us through the site, using her extensive pattern library, stash, and forums list as examples. We learned how to use the advanced search for not only patterns, but yarns and projects as well. (Did you know you can sort projects by helpfulness?). We talked about using tags in Ravelry to not only categorize our projects page, but to also help organize our physical yarn storage. And we learned how to plan a road trip with Ravelry to maximize souvenir yarn purchases!

In case you missed it, here is a link to the presentation on Google Drive.

Our next meeting will be in November. Not sure how to price that piece of art you plan to submit for our exhibition in January? Pricing artwork can be very personal and varied depending on many considerations. Come learn from those with experience assigning a price to a piece of art-Kim McIntyre, owner of Art and Soul Gallery, our treasured members Tim Cardy & Georganne Alex, and mixed media artist Karen Lehrer will join Laurie on a panel to advise how best to assess the value you wish to place on your work. We will talk about the basics and each panelist will share their own perspective of the process and considerations one might think about as a decision is made on pricing a work of art.