49I want to browse the patterns I own
Your Ravelry library - purchased patterns, books, magazines, and updates
- A Ravelry account. Your library is what you own on Ravelry - patterns, books, magazines and booklets.
- Nothing to switch on.
Open Library from the Home screen. This is everything you own on Ravelry: patterns you bought, free ones you downloaded, and the books, magazines and booklets you have added to your shelf. It is your shelf, not a shop - nothing here needs buying again.
A library of any size needs finding rather than scrolling. The search box matches pattern names and designers. Filters narrows by type - All Items, Downloads (the ones you actually own a file for), Pattern, Book, Magazine or Booklet. Sort arranges by Title, Date Added, Published or Author.
The middle control changes the layout: Stack (a list with details), Flow (a flowing grid where tall covers stay tall), Gallery+ (large cards), Story (full-width images), Essentials (text only, fastest to scan) and Grid (uniform squares). A tick box applies your choice to every list in the app, if you want one way of seeing things everywhere.
Tap any entry to open it. A single pattern goes straight to its pattern page; a book or magazine opens a volume view listing every pattern inside, so you can see what else came with the one you bought it for.
The Info tab is more than a cover and a title. The designer card says how much else they have published and in which crafts - a quick way to find out that the person who wrote your favourite hat also wrote forty other things. Pattern Information gives the craft, what it makes, whether it was free, and what it cost.
The PDFs tab lists the actual files that came with the pattern - often more than one, when a designer ships a chart or a translation separately. Each has its size and three buttons: View PDF, Share and Print. Opening one puts it in the Pattern Explorer with the whole Smart Reader toolset - markers, counters, notes and charts.
The ⋮ menu on a volume offers Share, View Pattern - the pattern's own page, with its projects, yarns and comments - and Open in Ravelry for anything the app does not do.
When a designer publishes corrections, an update banner appears on the pattern's PDF area and on the library volume. Apply update pulls the corrected version in without a trip to Ravelry.com.
Pattern Sources, in Discover, searches every book, magazine and collection on Ravelry - not only the ones you own. Open one and you get its Info and a Patterns tab listing everything published in it. It is how you find out that the issue you own has eight more patterns you never looked at.
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