Typed out whole, nothing shortened
The pattern is the page. Nothing is summarised into a note, nothing sits behind an account, nothing is held back behind a click and nothing costs anything.
Always free Laid out for paper Real photographs No account, no download
Free crochet patterns
that print properly
Every pattern is typed out whole, one line at a time, with the materials and the key that pattern's own author wrote.
Press print and you get the sheet,
not the menu bar.
See all 18 patterns What the printed sheet looks like
18free patterns
5sections to browse
A4and it fits
Puff Stitch Sunflower Granny Square
what is on every sheet
Seven things true of
every sheet here
Seven things that hold for every sheet here — the ones already up and the ones going up next.
Left exactly as its author wrote it
What the original page gave, this one gives. Where it left something out, this page says so rather than quietly supplying a figure nobody checked.
The key stays beside the pattern
Two writers can give one short form two meanings, so each pattern prints the key its own author wrote. At full width it holds its column beside the instructions.
Laid out for paper, not just for glass
Press print and the pattern, its materials and its whole key come out on A4 at 11pt, with a box beside every line. The menu, the button bar and the sign-up box stay on the screen where they belong.
Photographs, and nothing rendered
Every picture here was shot by the person who published the pattern, of the piece they actually made. No photograph here has been generated, enlarged or re-lit.
Each sheet says where it came from
Every pattern here first appeared free somewhere else. Where that page is still known the sheet names it and sends you there. How a pattern gets onto this site.
A reference shelf, not a sales page
Hook sizes, yarn weights, the US and UK names and the abbreviation table, all of them plain tables you can look at without giving anyone an address.
the shelf
Six sheets to open first
A square for one evening or a soft toy for a week. The line above each title says which one you are picking up.
No. 01 · IntermediateGRANNY SQUARES · DK · 5 ROUNDS
Puff Stitch Sunflower Granny Square
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No. 02 · IntermediateAMIGURUMI · WORSTED · 94 ROUNDS
Enchanting Lizzie the Unicorn Amigurumi Crochet Pattern
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No. 03 · BeginnerGRANNY SQUARES · DK · 7 ROUNDS
Cherry Blossom Granny Square
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No. 04 · BeginnerAMIGURUMI · SPORT · 26 ROUNDS
Free Cow Amigurumi Pattern
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No. 05 · IntermediateGRANNY SQUARES · DK · 21 ROUNDS
Duck Granny Square
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No. 06 · BeginnerHOME DECOR · SUPER BULKY · 11 ROUNDS
Free Bunny Basket Crochet Pattern
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The whole shelf on one pageSorted into 5 sections and searchable by title, tag and short form, with the abbreviation table a click away.
Open the indexcommon questions
Asked before you ask
Is there a PDF to download?
No, and there is no download step at all. The pattern is the page, complete the moment it loads.
What there is instead is a print layout. Your browser's own print command puts the pattern, the materials and the whole key onto A4 at 11pt, with a box beside every line to tick in pencil.
Is everything here free?
Yes. Every pattern is free to read, free to work from and free to print. No account, nothing to pay, no email wall.
The reference shelf is the same: the tables are there to look at, and nothing on this site asks for an address before it will show you something.
Why does each pattern have its own key?
Because short forms are not standardised. Two writers can use one short form for two different things, so the key printed beside a pattern is the one its own author wrote.
The site-wide table at the abbreviation table is a reference, not an override.
Did you write these patterns?
No. Every one of them first appeared free somewhere else, and typing them into one layout is the whole of what happens here.
Where the original page is still known, the sheet names it and links to it. Where it is not, the sheet says so rather than leaving you to guess.
Can I sell what I make from one?
That is the designer's call and it is written on their page, not this one. This site types patterns out; it grants nothing.
Follow the source link and read what they wrote. Where the address did not survive, assume the pattern is not cleared for resale.
How often do new patterns go up?
There is no fixed schedule. One goes up when it has been typed out and laid out properly, which takes longer than it sounds.
The monthly list is the only way to hear about it: what went up and what was corrected, on the last day of the month.
about this site
A typing desk with
a printer beside it.
No pattern here was drawn up at this address. Each had already been given away, free, on the page of whoever wrote it, written the way patterns get written — a paragraph you read three times to find the line you were on.
All that happens here is typing them out into one shape, crediting the person who wrote it, and building a page that survives being put on paper. Then the pattern is left exactly as its author wrote it.
What nobody wrote down
is not invented
here.
Sheet one
Found already free, and credited
A pattern its author put up without a wall. The address it came from travels with it and is printed on its own sheet.
Sheet two
Typed out whole
Everything the original page printed, in the order it was written, none of it shortened, with the materials and the key set out under it.
Sheet three
Laid out to be printed
A page that survives being put on paper: the pattern, its materials and its whole key on A4, with a box beside every line to tick in pencil.
The monthly list
What went up and what was corrected, on the last day of the month. One message, and nothing between them.
Every one of them ends with the link that takes the address off the list.
Twelve messages a year, at the very most.