Huge free pattern archive from a Japanese yarn company (charts)
This archive disappeared at one point, then came back. They haven't updated since 2020, but there's literally hundreds of knitting and crochet patterns to sort through. It's all PDFs with charts and English translation on the minimal text.
Reminder that almost any truly vintage and antique knit or crochet pattern can be found FREE on many sites including:
On both internet archive and project gutenburg it helps to know what book or magizine you are looking for but you can still do a regular vague key word search and find something.
Even your local library and ravelry might have antique pattern books on file! On ravelry you will have to exclude all purchasable patterns instead of just looking for free for some reason, then get past the first page or two of patterns people thought "looked antique" but once you get to the black and white photos you are golden!
So please don't buy an etsy shop's antique pattern when there is really no reason to, and if you are one of those selling these patterns, know I am judging you big time!
I wasn’t expecting to face reveal so soon but I recently stumbled on some information that I feel all knitters and crocheters need to know! This video is from my TikTok but I thought I’d crosspost as I know Tumblr has a large community of hand crafters.
Hobbycraft is a UK craft store brand (trusted, don’t worry!) and they have HUNDREDS of free patterns for knitters and crocheters. I believe they can be use worldwide too - I don’t think this is UK exclusive.
Crafting should be accessible to all, no matter your financial situation so if you’re like me and need cheap or free options for patterns, Hobbycraft can help!
In this post, I am compiling a list of Japanese sewing and craft websites with free patterns and instructions. I will update it as I find more websites.
I'm trying to gather free sewing patern resources. These are the ones i have so far please feel free to add your own. hoping to turn this into a masterpost sometime soon.
made slippers off a pattern from a Japanese yarn company (Pierrot). And I was delighted to discover that their incredibly robust free pattern database is back up and running!
Seriously, check this shit out. A couple of years ago when I sat down to collect a bunch of 'em, I had to go through the Internet Archive. But they're back!
Starting something new - the Pineapple Peacock shawl, using some yarn I frogged from a previous (my first!) attempt at the Lost Souls shawl.
This yarn was really too thick for the Lost Souls, but seems to be OK for this one, although the thickness *is* annoying me. But it has the added advantage of crocheting up quickly, so that's a bonus, I guess. I'm not a fan of how the yarn changes, it's too jarring to my eyes, so this may end up being given away. We'll see how I like the final look.