Free, with none of the usual hoops
No account to make, nothing to pay and no download step. The whole pattern is on the page the moment it loads, and it stays that way.
Free crochet patterns you can tick off as you go
Laid out to be worked from, not just read: one instruction to a line, with a box beside it to tick. Tick one and it stays ticked in this browser — tomorrow, next week, until you clear it yourself.
0free patterns, and more going up
6kinds of thing to make
0accounts, paywalls or downloads
what you actually get
Built for the hand
holding the hook
Seven things that hold for every pattern on this site — the ones already up and the ones going up next.
A box to tick on every line
Work down the page and tick as you go. They are real checkboxes, so they still work with scripting off and nothing has to load before you can start.
It remembers where you stopped
Put a project down for a fortnight and pick it up on the same line. That lives in this browser and goes no further — there is no account holding it.
Written to be read one line at a time
Not a wall of prose you have to reread to find your place in. Big type, one instruction to a line, and a layout that survives a phone propped against a yarn bowl.
Short forms, one tap away
Tap a short form inside the instructions and its meaning opens beside it. You never lose the line you were on to go and look something up.
Real photographs, never renderings
Every picture on this site was taken by whoever published the pattern, of the thing they actually made. Nothing here was generated, upscaled or relit.
Credited to whoever wrote it
Not one of these was designed here. Where the original page is still known the pattern links straight to it, and where it is not, the page says so. How patterns get here.
the shelf
Six to start with
A square for one evening, or something to live with for a week. Whichever you pick, it is free and it is all on the page.
before you ask
Questions this site
actually gets
Is everything here really free?
Yes. Every pattern on this site is free to read and free to work from. There is no account to make, nothing to pay for, no email wall and no download step.
The whole pattern is on the page the moment it loads. That is the site.
How often do new patterns go up?
There is no fixed schedule. A pattern goes up when it has been laid out properly, which is a slower business than it sounds.
The row of links below is the only way to hear about a new one. One message when a pattern goes up, and nothing in between.
Where do the patterns come from?
Every one of them first was published free by whoever made it. Nothing here was designed on this site, and no page here claims otherwise.
Where the original page is still known, the pattern links straight to it by name. Where it is not, the page says so instead of leaving you to guess.
Can I sell what I make from one?
That is the original designer's call, not this site's. Some allow finished items to be sold and some do not, and the page you are reading is a layout, not a licence.
Follow the source link on the pattern and read what the designer wrote. Where nothing came with it, take it as not cleared for resale.
Do I need an account to save my place?
No, and there is nowhere to make one. What you have ticked lives in this browser alone, so it survives closing the tab and never leaves the machine it was made on.
Open the same pattern on another phone and it starts fresh, because nothing was uploaded that could carry across.
A line in a pattern reads wrong. What do I do?
Write to the contact page and say which pattern and which line. That is enough to check it against the page it was retyped from.
A correction is made in the file the pages are built from, so it reaches every place that detail appears rather than the one page you were reading.
what this is
A retyping shop, not a design studio.
Nobody here designs these patterns. Each one had already been published, free, on its author's own page, written the way patterns usually are — a block of prose you reread three times to find the line you were on.
What happens here is dull and useful. It gets pulled apart onto separate lines, a box to tick goes beside each one, the short forms it uses are collected where you can reach them, and the person who wrote it is credited. Then it is left alone.
No byline here, because nobody
here made any of it.
It is found, and it is credited
A pattern that is already free somewhere else. The address it came from is kept with it, and it is the first thing the pattern page shows.
It is typed out whole
Not summarised and not shortened. Everything the original page printed comes across, in the order it was written.
It is laid out to be worked from
One instruction to a line, a box beside each, and the short forms it uses put where you can reach them without losing your place.
The list
One message when a new pattern goes up, and a line on what it is.
No schedule, nothing between, and a reply saying stop takes the address off again.
Nothing else is ever sent.