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Ravelry is a new website dedicated to knitters and crocheters and their desire to share their passion, catalogue their collections and communicate with other geeks knitters and crocheters who share their geekness passion. The site is in a beta format and is taking new members strictly by order of request to join with a waiting list of approx. 5000 to date (20 June 2007). It's features are impressive including facilities to catalogue your needles and hooks with a natty print out card to carry round with you; you can catalogue your stash with flickr pics embedded; you can do the same with your FOs (finished objects). There are communication tools to contact friends and add them to a friends list (like myspace.com), there are forums, internal email tools. Search facilities allow you to search for crafters by area, by name, by map location, or by yarn, pattern, stash , favourites.

The beta is fairly well developed and new features are being added all the time. The site is aesthetically pleasing, is well designed and functions very intuitively. The flickr interface works brilliantly, and the forums are proving popular, amking for a prospective community space which is built by and for knitters and crocheters. The husband and wife development team have put a lot of time and effort in, and it shows. He has just given up his job to workon it full time - I think the waiting list won't be long for long......

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