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Free Patterns

A few years back when I started crocheting again I had no idea there were so many free patterns available online to download and print. I assumed I'd have to pay for anything I wanted to make, but a few searches turned up some wonderful resources that I keep going back to time and again.

Lion Brand has a library of over four thousand crochet patterns that you can search with a bunch of different filters, such as project, yarn weight and skill level. This is the site I go to most often to search for patterns for throws, like this one that I tweaked to make my V-stitch sea throw last year.

Although their library is much smaller, Mary Maxim also offers free crochet patterns with the same sort of search filters. I've found a few here that have become favorites, including the Worth Street Afghan pattern.

The largest online library of free crochet patterns I've found so far is at Yarnspirations, which offers over six thousand free patterns, including the easy Granny Ripple blanket I used last year. If you can't find it here I'd be very surprised.

Now and then I will purchase a specific crochet pattern from a designer, but with the advent of AI I've become much more hesitant to buy any type of pattern. YouTube tutorial designers I've been watching for years like Jayda InStitches are the exception, as are recommended patterns from crochet reviewers like Elise Rose Crochet.

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