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Crochet patterns, filed by how the fabric feels.
Every pattern on this site is filed under the texture its own stitches make: squish, ridge, lace, dense or drape. The filing is read off the rounds and never rated. Pick the feel you want under your hands first, then the thing to make.
Written in US crochet terms. Every pattern names the page it first appeared on.
Toddler cardigan with ribbed cuffs worked in double crochet
Garments · 16 rounds · 6.5 mm
Beaded-look crochet bracelet with puff stitch texture
Crochet Jewelry · 7 rounds · 2.75 mm
Open cardigan in mohair cloud lace stitch
Sweaters & Cardigans · 7 rounds · 4.5 mm
Beaded single crochet panel with an open grid texture
Crochet Panels · 10 rounds · 3.5 mm
Pearl-trimmed dusty rose lace collar crochet pattern
Accessories · 16 rounds · 1.65 mm
01 / The five feels
One word for what it will be like under your hands.
A stitch decides the fabric long before the colour does. These five cover almost everything a hook makes, and each pattern is filed under the one most of its rounds share.
Squish
Puff, bobble and popcorn stitches that stand off the fabric.
1 pattern
Ridge
Post stitches and back-loop rows that raise a line.
8 patterns
Lace
Chain spaces, shells and picots that leave air in the fabric.
4 patterns
Dense
Single crochet worked tight, the fabric toys are made of.
94 patterns
Drape
Double and treble crochet that lets the fabric hang and fold.
25 patterns
02 / Latest swatches
The newest patterns on the table.
Each card shows the feel the pattern was filed under and the stitches that put it there.
See every patternToddler cardigan with ribbed cuffs worked in double crochet
Garments · 16 rounds · 6.5 mm
Beaded-look crochet bracelet with puff stitch texture
Crochet Jewelry · 7 rounds · 2.75 mm
Open cardigan in mohair cloud lace stitch
Sweaters & Cardigans · 7 rounds · 4.5 mm
Beaded single crochet panel with an open grid texture
Crochet Panels · 10 rounds · 3.5 mm
Pearl-trimmed dusty rose lace collar crochet pattern
Accessories · 16 rounds · 1.65 mm
Ombre ruffle doll dress crochet pattern with shell tiers
Amigurumi · 50 rounds · 3.25 mm
03 / How the filing works
Read off the rounds. Never rated.
There is no score on this site and no maker count. The filing is a plain reading of the instructions, done the same way for every pattern.
01
The stitches are read off each round
Every round's text is checked against a fixed table of stitch names: puff, bobble, fpdc, blo, chain space, shell, sc, dc and the rest. Nothing outside the table counts.
02
Each round gets the feel its stitches make
Puffs and bobbles make squish, post stitches make ridge, chain spaces make lace, single crochet makes dense, tall stitches make drape. A round that names none of them gets no feel.
03
The pattern is filed under the feel most rounds share
That is the word on the card. The texture map on the pattern page shows every round's feel in order, so a dense toy with a lace collar reads as exactly that.
04 / On every pattern page
The same furniture on every pattern.
So the second pattern you open reads like the first, whoever wrote the original.
A texture map
One cell per round, coloured by the feel its stitches make, with a line under it saying which stitches decided the filing.
A stitch legend
The pattern's own abbreviations laid out as cards, each with the feel that stitch contributes, so you can see what a round will do before you work it.
Rounds you can tick off
Every round on its own line with its count where the designer gave one. Tick them as you go; the page remembers where you were.
The source, named
Every pattern first appeared free somewhere else. The page it came from is linked at the foot of every pattern that still has one.
05 / Questions
Asked before, answered here.
Is a feel a difficulty rating?
No. It says what the fabric will be like, not how hard the pattern is. A lace pattern can be four rounds; a dense one can be ninety. Where the original designer gave a skill level, it is printed beside the pattern in their words.
What happens when a pattern mixes stitches?
It is filed under the feel that most of its rounds share, and the texture map on the page shows the rest. A toy with a bobble nose is filed dense with three squish cells in the map.
Why is a pattern unfiled?
Its rounds name no stitch in the table: a written-out pattern with no abbreviations, or one worked in a stitch the table does not know. It is still on the site, under its category, with no feel on the card.
Are the patterns free, and are they yours?
Free, always, with nothing to sign up for. They are not this site's own designs: each one first appeared on another site and is credited and linked there. If one is yours and you would rather it were not here, write in and it comes down.
New patterns, as they are filed.
One short email when a batch of patterns lands, with the feel of each. No other mail, and the address goes nowhere else.