{"id":519,"date":"2009-02-23T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/?p=519"},"modified":"2009-04-14T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T06:21:53","slug":"stuffstash-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.indiamos.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/stuffstash-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"StuffStash proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For my 1\u0374 2\u0374 10\u0374<\/a> project, I\u2019d like to create a craft-supply shopping and inventory website, provisionally titled stuffstash.com<\/i>.<\/p>\n

There are lots of great craft sites\u2014such as Ravelry.com<\/a>, for knitting and crocheting, and PatternReview.com<\/a>, Vintage Sewing Pattern Wiki<\/a>, and BurdaStyle.com<\/a>, for sewing\u2014that allow registered users to catalog their material or pattern stashes\u2014stash<\/i> being the most common term for the sprawling collection of supplies that crafters tend to accumulate over time. None of these sites seems to have a dedicated mobile version, however, and none of them allows one to record all the little bits that a project requires\u2014pattern, fabric or yarn, notions, needles. This is unfortunate, as it would be really useful to be able to look up, while one are in a store, what one has and what one needs.<\/p>\n

The website would have uses at all three interaction distances.<\/p>\n

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The mobile application should have a clean, simple interface that\u2019s optimized for (a) looking stuff up when you\u2019re in the fabric or yarn store and (b) forcing other people to look at a slide show of your finished or in-progress projects. The shopping lookup would have two paths\u2014pattern first or material first. That is, you\u2019re either holding a pattern in your hand and trying to remember what fabrics or yarns you have at home, and how much, or you\u2019re fondling some yarn or fabric and trying to think of what you could make out of it and how much you\u2019d need to buy to do so.<\/p>\n

Other handy features to have while craft-supply shopping would be a unit converter, a reference chart of yarn sizes (there are several systems for indicating yarn weight\u2014names such as \u201cworsted\u201d and \u201cfingering,\u201d recommended stitches per inch + needle size, wraps per inch, supposedly industry-standard numbered categories, etc.), needle inventory, and notions inventory (e.g., 1\u00a0×\u00a07\u02dd black zipper, 24 × 3\/4\u02dd rhinestone buttons). For each pattern in your collection, you\u2019d want to be able to include<\/p>\n