Read it the way you were taught
One switch in the header puts the whole site into UK terms, or back into US. It holds for every pattern here and every one added after, and this browser remembers which you chose.
US or UK terms Always free Real photographs No account, no download
Free crochet patterns,
in your terms
what this is Patterns that were already free somewhere else, pulled into one layout and set out a line at a time. One switch in the header reads the whole site in UK terms, and it stays that way in this browser.
Open every pattern How the switch works
0free patterns, and more going up
6kinds of thing to make
2ways to read every one of them
what is on every page
Seven things you can
check for yourself
Seven things that hold for every pattern here — the ones already up and the ones going up next.
A key beside the pattern, in its own words
Every pattern brings its own short-form list, because writers do not agree with each other. Open the key where you are standing and it shows only what that pattern uses.
Typed out, one line at a time
Never a block of prose you have to reread to find your place in. Whatever the original page printed comes across whole, in the order it was written.
Nothing invented to fill a gap
Where the original page left something out, the page says so rather than quietly supplying a number nobody checked. Being told is more use than being guessed at.
Photographs of the real thing
Every picture here was photographed by whoever wrote the pattern, of the piece they actually made. Nothing on this site was generated, upscaled or relit.
Whoever wrote it keeps the credit
None of these were designed at this address. Each was already free on somebody else's page, and where that page is still known the pattern names it. Where these patterns came from.
Nothing held back for an address
No account, no download step, no wall. The whole pattern is on the page the moment it loads, and the links at the bottom is the only thing an email address buys.
the library
Six of them
A square for one evening or a soft toy for a week. The line under each title tells you which you are picking up.
questions
Asked more than once
What does the US / UK switch actually change?
The stitch names, and only the stitch names. Press UK and every pattern on the site reads in UK terms, key and all, including any pattern added after today.
The names that read the same in both conventions are left alone. Your choice is remembered in this browser, so you set it once.
Is everything here free?
Yes. Every pattern is free to read and free to work from. No account, nothing to pay, no email wall and no download step.
Every round is there as soon as the page opens. That is the site.
Did you write these patterns?
No. Every one of them was published free by someone else first. Laying them out in one shape is the whole of what happens here.
Where the original page is still known the pattern links to it by name. Where it is not, the page says so instead of leaving you to assume.
Can I sell what I make?
That is the designer's decision and it is written on their page, not this one. This site is a layout and it grants nothing.
Follow the source link and read their terms. Where no source link survived, treat the pattern as not cleared for resale.
Is there a PDF to download?
No. The pattern is the page, and it is complete the moment it loads. There is no download step and nothing is held back.
Your browser's own print command will put the page on paper if you want it there.
How often do new patterns go up?
There is no fixed schedule. One goes up when it has been laid out properly, which takes longer than it sounds.
The list at the foot of this page is the only way to hear about a new one, and it is one message per pattern with nothing in between.
about this site
A retyping room with
a dye garden in it.
Nobody here designs these patterns. Each was already free on somebody else's page, written the way crochet has always been written — a block of prose you read four times to find the line you were on.
What happens here is typing it out into one shape, then two small mechanical things: setting it so the switch in the header can read it either way without fetching anything, and crediting the person who wrote it.
Left exactly as its author
wrote it, and credited to them.
Step one
Found where it was already free
A pattern somebody else published and left open. The address it came from is kept with it and shown on its page.
Step two
Retyped into one layout
Every round the source printed, on its own line, in the same shape as the other seventeen. Nothing is summarised and nothing is shortened.
Step three
Set in both spellings, then counted
Each stitch name is written twice into the HTML so the header switch can reach it, and the count on a round says whether it was printed or worked out.
One pattern, one message
When a pattern is retyped, the message says which one and names the round that catches people out on it.
The unsubscribe link sits at the top of it rather than the bottom.
No other kind of message follows.