Easily Find Ravelry Free Patterns

Easily find Ravelry free patterns for knitting and crochet project ideas. It’s an engaging, user-friendly community open to everyone—at no cost! In this guide, I’ll show you the basics of using Ravelry to find free patterns, join the knitting community, share with friends, and streamline your pattern searches in four easy steps.

Have you wondered if Ravelry has an app? Let’s explore that, too!

What is Ravelry?

Ravelry is a vibrant online resource for knitters, crocheters, and other yarn enthusiasts. Launched in 2007, it’s driven by user-generated content, so members can share their projects, ideas, and yarn collections.

It’s ideal for knitters and anyone interested in crochet, spinning, weaving, or yarn dyeing. I use Ravelry frequently to find inspiration for knitting projects on Studio Knit!

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How to Join the Ravelry Knitting Community

To access Ravelry’s resources, you’ll need to register. Here’s how:

1. Visit Ravelry.com. and click “Join Now!”
2. Enter your email address to receive a signup link.
3. Check your email for a message titled “Your Ravelry.com Sign-Up Link” and click the link.
4. Create your Ravelry account with a username and password, then click “Create My Account.”

4 Steps to Search for Free Knitting Patterns

To help you get started, here’s a quick example search for a free knitting pattern, like a scarf. I want a pattern with a photo and one that uses yarn I already have in my stash.

1. Go to the “Patterns” tab in the top navigation.
2. Enter a search term in the box (I typed in “scarf”)
3. Filter your results by
   • craft (“knitting”)
   • gender / age / size / fit
   • ravelry designer
   • availability (“free”)
   • fiber, has photo (“yes), category
   • attributes, yardage, weight (“super bulky”)
   • meterage
   • my notebook
   • pattern source type
   • rating
   • difficulty (“1 – piece of cake”)
   • language (“english”)
   • colors used (“1”)
4. Scroll back up to view the filtered results.

Using the above example, see the results of searching for beginner level knitted scarves that use my yarn, my needle size. I’ve narrowed down the results from thousands to just over a hundred matching my search criteria—making it much easier to pick the perfect pattern!

After you’ve knitted up your project, post photos of your knitted work onto your own Ravelry page. Your knitted work will give other knitters inspiration to knit up the same project themselves. 

8 Top Popular Search Queries

Free knitting patterns are so much fun to collect. This website makes it really easy to find projects filtered to your specific preferences.

Once you are registered, you may click on my quick links that will take you directly to their top 8 most popular search queries:

1. Ravelry Free Knitting Patterns
2. Ravelry Crochet Free Patterns
3. Ravelry Free Patterns Shawl
4. Ravelry Free Hat Patterns
5. Ravelry Free Poncho Patterns
6. Ravelry Free Baby Knitting Patterns
7. Ravelry Free Headband Patterns
8. Ravelry Free Cowl Patterns

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Does Ravelry Have an App?

Although Ravelry itself has not yet developed an app, independent third-party app developers have been allowed to access their database. iOS and Android users now may easily pull up favorite patterns on mobile devices.

RAVIT – Ravelry on the Hop: iOS iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac.
Ravit really makes Ravelry shine on mobile! It shows patterns, projects, yarns in a clean and responsive interface, but also includes some of the more powerful features too, such as filters. Ravit is not affiliated with Ravelry. It is an independent app, developed by a husband and wife team company Enhancient.com.

Stash2Go – Ravelry on the Go: Android
Stash2Go allows you to use Ravelry on the go, on Android devices. It provides access to yarns, projects, patterns, and friends. Ravelry is the world’s largest community for knitters and crocheters. Note that Stash2Go is not affiliated with Ravelry.

Ravelry’s website does have a “mobile view” designed for small screens. The mobile option is found in pattern search, forums, and message box when using your phone in portrait mode.

I love searching for knitting pattern ideas on my iPhone. Pinterest’s app is so user-friendly and you’ll find me pinning “all the things” when in line at the grocery store or watching television.

Bonus: Check out my Studio Knit Pinterest profile! Yup, I’ve individually hand-pinned over 30,000+ ideas over there so far.

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Let’s Become Ravelry Friends!

Once you have your free account, please find my personal account under the username “mossmermaid.” I created my account prior to starting this website, which is the reason I have a different username than Studio Knit.

In the upper left, click the button that says “Add to Friends.” The next time I log-in, I’ll friend you back!

My best friend, who is both a knitter and librarian, introduced the site to me in 2009. She is my first Ravelry friend and we have so much fun saving and sharing knitting patterns on the platform together.

I love going up to the Friends tab in the navigation to quickly see all of the recent projects you all have knitted up at a glance.

People are so nice and helpful on this platform and I get a lot of inspiration from the projects from the community. There are currently over 9 million Ravelry members, so this is a very big, welcoming, talented community.