Lir Shilton, Ribblr
About this episode
Lir Shilton discusses her journey as a crochet designer and the creation of Ribblr, a platform for crafting patterns.
As a budding crochet designer, Lir Shilton ran into obstacles and annoyances that many beginning crafters face. But instead of learning to live with them, she and her partner decided to make a platform that offers a different approach. Lir loved to crochet, and she especially loved creating designs to share with other makers. But crochet patterns vary significantly depending where you are in the world—and not just in translating centimeters to inches. Was that a British double crochet or an American double crochet? Did the directions mean to work the decreases 5 times or 5 more times? Which of the 9 sizes did this direction apply to? What color was A? As Lir described her frustrations to her husband, Saar Oron, he asked the simple, obvious question: “Why is it like this?” With a background in building online communities, he wondered why there wasn’t an app for designers to present patterns and for crafters to consume them in a more user-friendly way. Sometimes it takes a newcomer to ask the question everyone else has stopped asking. Along with a developer, the pair formed Ribblr, an online community and pattern platform that supports projects in knitting, crochet, and sewing…
People in this episode
Guest: Lir Shilton
Topics covered
- crochet
- design
- online community
- crafting
- user-friendly patterns
Keywords
- crochet
- patterns
- Ribblr
- crafting
- design
- community
- knitting
- sewing
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Ribblr
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