To earn coins and points, do your hourly tasks under My Center in the upper right and corner. Log in every day for another 50 gold coins, this is issued once every 24 hours.
Be active and post in the diaries to gain yet more coin. You can only post 26 per hour. As your coin increases, so does your points.
Go through the bounties and see if there are any charts/patterns wanted by other members that you may have and upload them to the forum.
Read as many of the tutorials as you can to help you understand how the forum works. Posted here within this forum: //www.pindiy.com/forum-2-1.html
To earn coins is very easy. Do your hourly tasks. Those can be found in under the my centre button upper right corner. There are 2. Your level and an everybody task. Then share. Share your finished work share charts and patterns. And post. Post on threads that are already here.
The site is not directed towards I anything. Both PC and Apple users are here. IBooks [free] is where you will find your downloads but you do not have to have an apple machine to be a member here.
upload a nice avatar
verify your mail adresse
do the hourly task
post FB link, if you are a member there
show your work in Diary Section
reply to other members threads
post new charts
having no luck yet with that but my wife like you says it is there??? maybe not enough points yet or problem with cookies or something, but thanks much appreciated