How to: Stash Your Yarn on Ravelry

Last Thursday I told you why Ravelry is awesome, and I promised you some tutorials on how to make the most of this website of awesomeness. This weeks tutorial is 'How to Stash Your Yarn on Ravelry'. I know that most of you will already know how to do this, but for those who are new to the website, or those who need some encouragement on getting organised, here is how to create your very own online stash (remember, to make a picture bigger on this tutorial, just click on it!).

You will Need:

• A Ravelry Account (if you don't have one, you can create one here) 
• Yarn to Stash

Here we go. 

Step 1:

Log onto Ravelry, and head on over to your stash:

then

you'll then find yourself here

Step 2: 

Click add new yarn

Step 3:

Fill in as much information as you can

Step 4:

Choose the correct yarn

Step 5:

Fill in as much information as you can!

Step 6:

Click save

Step 7: 

Click photos

Step 8:

Add your your photos!

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You should then end up with something like this...

Well done! In future weeks I will show you how to use your online stash to the best advantage, such as finding patterns to use with your yarn. Next week, you'll be learning 'How to: 'Create a Ravelry Project Page', which goes hand in hand with this weeks tutorial :)

Charlotte, Can You Beat the Cube?!

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For any of you who haven't seen the ITV Gameshow the Cube, I'll give you a quick summary. Contestants are put inside a giant cube and asked to preform deceivingly simple tasks in return for big wads of cash.

No one has ever beaten the Cube, so I thought it was time that I gave it a bash.

Now, the Cube I am attempting to conquer isn't glass panelled and fitted with slow-motion cameras. I haven't got Philip Schofield to explain things to me, and I don't have large amounts of cash to act as an incentive for me to finish.

The Cube I am attempting to beat isn't even a Cube, it's a rectangle. A small wooden rectangle, filled with colourful squishy yarn.

I sat and watched, green with envy,  Kerri over at When Did I Become a Knitter, defeat her amazing stash and get it into a lovely organised fashion. So, I decided to take on the rectangularcubething and join the ranks of knitters who have defeated the enemy that is the un-tidy, IAlwaysSeemToTripOverIt, stash.

The first task was to take all the yarn out of the metaphorical cube, and lay it on my floor in a big heap. Like so.

After getting it all out (which wasn't as easy as it looked, mark one of the Cube, deceivingly simple tasks) I put all the yarns knotted together into a pile, to try and sort it out. After looking at it, I honestly didn't want to carry on. I simply wanted to pop it all back in the rectangularcubething, and be done with it. 

But I carried on anyway.

Like Kerri, I wanted to have all my yarn logged and photographed into Ravelry, but I' still waiting for that to happen. I did though, after a day or so, manage to get my yarns untangled, sorted and popped into zip-lock bags!

I managed to un-earth the yarn vomit from months past. Even now, it still sends shivers down my spine.

I started my battle against the Cube a few months ago, and am still yet to defeat it. But, I have managed to get my stash a little tidier, and when we finish doing-up my room I'll be able to resume the fight against a tidier stash.

So even though this technically isn't a FO, go check out what other knitters and crocheters (with clean & tidy stashes) from around the world managed to finish this week.