Connecting Ravelry means you don’t have to type in what Ravelry already knows. Go to More → Settings and tap Connect to Ravelry. You’ll sign in on Ravelry’s own website — Yarn Squirrel never sees your password.
What comes in
The first sync brings down your Ravelry library, favourites, queue, projects, stash and your hooks and needles. A big library takes a little while, and it fills in as it goes rather than making you wait for all of it.
After that, Yarn Squirrel checks for changes when you open it, with a quiet period in between so it isn’t asking Ravelry the same question every few minutes. You can always pull down to refresh a list yourself.
What Yarn Squirrel sends back
Only things you ask it to, and only ever additions:
- Adding a pattern to your Ravelry library
- Adding or removing a favourite
- Adding a pattern to your queue
- Changes to a project that came from Ravelry
If you’re offline when you do one of these, it’s remembered and sent as soon as Ravelry is reachable again. You don’t have to do it twice.
What stays on your device
Imported PDFs, patterns you saved from a link, projects you made yourself, bits and bobs, and stash entries you typed in are all yours alone. They never go to Ravelry — so nothing you keep privately in Yarn Squirrel appears on your Ravelry profile.
Disconnecting
More → Settings → Sign Out disconnects the account. Everything you made yourself stays; the Ravelry-synced copies are removed from the device and come back if you sign in again. What happens when I sign out? goes through it properly.
Signing out is not the same as deleting your Ravelry account — that’s a separate link that takes you to Ravelry’s website.