A library of thirty patterns you can scroll. A library of six hundred needs filtering.
Filtering what you already have
Above your library are filter chips. Stack as many as you like — they narrow together, so craft and weight and category is a perfectly good question to ask.
You can filter by:
- Craft — crochet, knitting and the rest
- Category — garments, toys, blankets, accessories, and their sub-categories
- Yarn weight — for “what can I make with this DK I’ve got too much of”
- Fibre — for cotton in summer or wool in winter
- Source — Ravelry, PDF, Web or YouTube, matching the badges on the cards
The source filter is the useful one people don’t think of: PDF answers “what do I actually have a file for”, which is the difference between a pattern you can start now and one you’d have to buy.
Searching by name works alongside the filters, so you can type “hat” and still have crochet-only applied.
Searching all of Ravelry
The Search section looks at Ravelry’s whole catalogue rather than your own patterns, with its own filters for category, weight and pattern attributes — sleeve length, construction, neckline and so on.
This works without a Ravelry account. Tap any result to read the full details, and save it to Favourites or add it to your library from there.
When a filter finds nothing
Stacked filters can quietly rule out everything. If a list comes up empty, clearing one chip at a time usually finds the culprit faster than clearing them all and starting again.