Your data, your move

Import your Ravelry stash

Years of stash entries shouldn't keep you anywhere. Purlsona reads the .xls export Ravelry already gives you — no account linking, no file conversion, no retyping, duplicates handled.

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Three steps

From Ravelry stash page to Purlsona in minutes.

Export your stash from Ravelry

On Ravelry, open your notebook's My Stash page and click the Export (Excel) button above your stash list. It downloads a file like "YourName's Stash.xls" — that's the whole export, no conversion needed.

Upload it to Purlsona

Sign in, go to Stash → Import from Ravelry, and drop the file in exactly as downloaded. Every stash detail Ravelry exports — brand, yarn, colorway, weight, yardage, remaining amounts, dye lot, storage location, purchase info, and comments — comes across.

Confirm and start making

You'll see a full preview of every skein before anything is saved. Yarn you've marked used up or traded away on Ravelry is skipped automatically, re-importing the same file never creates duplicates, and your yarn lands ready to search, filter, and assign to projects.

What you get on the other side.

A living stash

Search and filter your yarn, track remaining yardage, group skeins into bundles, and assign stash yarn straight to projects.

Tools for actual making

Projects with streaks and work-session timers, a planning calendar, and a pattern library with row counters and in-pattern annotation.

FAQ

Ravelry import, answered.

Can I move my Ravelry stash to another app?

Yes. Ravelry lets you export your own stash as a spreadsheet from the My Stash page. Purlsona reads that file directly — including the original .xls format — so you can move your whole stash without retyping anything.

Does Purlsona connect to my Ravelry account?

No. Purlsona never connects to Ravelry or asks for your Ravelry password. You download your own export from Ravelry and upload the file to Purlsona yourself — your data stays in your hands the whole way.

What Ravelry stash data can Purlsona import?

Brand, yarn name, colorway, weight (mapped to standard categories like fingering, DK, and worsted), yardage, remaining yards and grams for partial skeins, dye lot, storage location, quantity, purchase date, price, shop, and comments. Yarn marked "will trade or sell" imports with a note; "all used up" and "traded, sold, gifted" yarn is skipped.

Do I need to convert the .xls file first?

No. Upload the file exactly as Ravelry gives it to you. Purlsona reads the .xls workbook directly, and a CSV copy works too if you've already re-saved it.

Will importing twice create duplicates?

No. Purlsona matches stash rows by brand, yarn, colorway, and dye lot, so re-running an import skips anything already in your stash.

Can I import my Ravelry projects or pattern library?

Ravelry doesn't offer a projects or pattern-library export, so there's nothing to upload — the stash export is the only data Ravelry lets you take with you. Pattern PDFs you've purchased can be downloaded from Ravelry and added to your Purlsona pattern library like any other PDF.

Is the Ravelry import free?

Yes. Importing your Ravelry stash into Purlsona is free, and so is the stash tracker it lands in.

Bring your stash with you.

Import your yarn free, then keep making with tools built for the way you actually knit and crochet.

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