Yes, another addiction! This one is pure genius. You may have read about Pinterest online in various places, and I assure you it is brilliant!! Ravelry changed my life, and Pinterest has done the same thing, perhaps more.
Here’s the Pinterest info and here’s a sneak peek at how mine looks:
So what’s the big deal? Basically Pinterest is a place to collect, store and share images. A virtual image database. In the beginning I thought ‘Ok, this will be fun’ (not knowing how addictive it would be)! More than 250 pins and less than 24hours later I had my slow personal revelation: Pinterest had consolidated my style. This may be a weird thing to say, but it really has. All of the images that I stumble across – the beautiful, the funny, lots of creative inspiration – somehow having a place to put it all and view it all has given me a solid sense of what I like, and where I am going creatively.
Once you join (by invite only at this stage) you have your own page, with boards (like you can see in my screenshot above). People have all kinds of boards, I have named and organised many of mine according to colour or things (like my chair collection) but you can do whatever you like. The boards act as a folder, where you store all of those images. You can rearrange your boards and the images within them.
One of my favourite things about Pinterest is the ‘pin it!’ bookmarklet that you can install into your bookmarks bar – this allows you to pin any image from anywhere on the web directly into the board you want to put it in. So whatever site you are on, if you see an image you just have to have, click ‘Pin it!’ and it scoops up the image and deposits it into your chosen Pinterest board. Genius, right??
There are just so many ways to use Pinterest, whatever your interest. I love Ravelry, but I often see photos I like – of a garment that I would never wear but I just LOVE the colour, or the shaping or the lace pattern etc. Do I favourite this? I tend not to, because I feel like it will clog up my favourites (and make it difficult to find that elusive cowl neck vest that I forgot to tag and spent ages scrolling through to find it). Now I have a place to put those pictures: Pinterest. I can collect images of the colours I like and the styles I like.
However nerdy it is of me to say this but I am so happy to have Pinterest in my life. I’d like to share the Pinterest love, so I will send an invite to the first 5 people to email me at info@evokeyarnandfabric.com.au.
Happy pinning!
hee hee!
