level up crafting with leves only?

[Taika]

You should check if you can use those items later on when you get to higher level in your craft. Moogle box is a great site for that, as Skies already mentioned. Then you can just sell the others at the wards or to a NPC, which ever is better for you.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

Depending on the crafts you plan to focus on, may determine your inventory.

Alchemy and culinary, you will probably have more diverse inventory.

[Estellios]

It's a bit misleading, but the "Recipes" section of the crafting menu really is for "recently made" recipes (so you can repeat recent crafts more easily) or to look over recipes awarded by turning in leves. There is currently no real recipe book in game, but you can look up recipes at mooglebox.com or http://mozk-tabetai.com/. You can make any recipes that are up to 10 levels above you, no matter if you have actually gotten the recipe or made the item before (so for example, a level 5 weaver can perform any recipe up to level 15). Both websites also give you a list of what any particular recipe an item is used in.

Rule of thumb, though, is not to horde too much. For weaving, yarns, cloths, ingots, and leathers are your "staple" materials. Some recipes require random things like maybe a feather or a rivet but you will save a lot of space if you focus on saving the staple materials and selling the rest that you will not have any immediate use for.

For your straw hat, you can buy Straw from a NPC in Ul'dah (three for a hat). For the Black Dye, you can gather some on Fisher by equipping a Gig tool in your off-hand (you will need the fishing rod to actually change to fisher as well). Black Dye is from spearfishing from any level gathering nodes in the Thanalan (Ul'dah) region, so you can just head out to camp Black Brush, near the pools of water, and clicking on the glowing little orbs coming out of some of the grass there. Spearfishing nodes have a little fish icon on your minimap, don't confuse them with the botanist nodes, which are a little wheat icon.

If you get the dye, you just begin crafting and select the dye along with the hat, your hat will instantly become dyed.

[MiNuN]

I only level up crafts by leves since day 1 and this is the result

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...cicuid=1624462

I am more focused on keeping my leves at 0 than leveling up crafts, on the plus side it gives gil, materials and crystals.

it should also be much higher but for the first rank 1-20 i didn't know what local leves were

[Estellios]

Make sure to keep up-to-date on your gear, especially your tools. It feels like it makes a lot bigger difference than it used to. Aside from that, use abilities that guarantee success (Maker's Muse is very good, it's low level Blacksmith) and make sure to use Wait if the orb isn't yellow or white. Red and Rainbow have lower success rates.

Don't forget to throw in a few Careful Synthesis actions in so you get a larger quality bonus, too.

[Gukie]

I ranked up all my crafting job with leve- lodestone me just dont rush it you'll be 50 by the time 2.0 comes out