About Every Crochet

Every Crochet takes crochet patterns their authors gave away on their own sites and sets every one of them in a single layout: the same round list, the same abbreviation list, the same materials list, on every page. Nobody here wrote these patterns and nobody here claims to have. There are 18 of them.

The photographs

All 89 photographs on this site arrived with the patterns. Whoever published a pattern took its photographs. Not one is generated, retouched, tinted or filtered, and no drawing stands in for a missing shot. Step photographs came with 17 patterns out of the 18, alongside a finished shot; the fern leaf doily carries a single image 399 pixels wide and nothing else.

• Amigurumi

  Brodie the Stegosaurus: Free Dinosaur Crochet Pattern

  28 rounds · all 28 counted · Worsted
• Amigurumi

  Charming Axolotl Amigurumi: Your Free Crochet Companion

  30 rounds · all 30 counted · Worsted
• Amigurumi

  Free Cute Koala Amigurumi Crochet Pattern Tutorial

  70 rounds · 69 of 70 counted · Sport
• Amigurumi

  Adorable Penguin Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

  37 rounds · 36 of 37 counted · Worsted

How the US and UK switch works

All 18 patterns were written in US terms. The switch in the header rewrites the stitch names into UK terms wherever they are printed in an instruction: 1,145 occurrences across the library. Both spellings ship in the page, so switching swaps a word rather than fetching anything, and nothing on the page moves.

Chain, stitch, slip stitch, increase, decrease and yarn over mean the same thing in both conventions and are left alone. Front-post and back-post forms follow their base stitch. Cluster and bobble short forms are left as their authors wrote them, because their definitions spell the method out in US wording and rewriting the letters would contradict the definition underneath.

Your choice is stored in this browser under a single key holding the word us or the word uk. Another browser, another phone or a private window starts on US again. With JavaScript switched off the control is not shown at all, and every page reads in US terms, which is how all 18 sources wrote them.

Why some rounds have no stitch count

A stitch count is the figure in brackets at the end of a round. Of the 277 rounds and rows here, 163 carry a figure the pattern’s own author printed. 8 carry a figure this build calculated by counting the stitches each round makes, flagged wherever it appears so you can recount that round instead of taking it on trust. 106 carry nothing at all.

Working out the missing ones would mean simulating the whole pattern, and a simulated count that is wrong by one sends somebody back four rounds. Those rows say count not given and stay empty.

Where the patterns came from

5 of the 18 files record the address the pattern was retyped from. Those 5 pages carry the link at the top and again at the foot.

The other 13 files carry no address. If you can identify one, the contact form has a field for it and the link gets added to that pattern’s page.

What is here

Every figure on this page is counted from the pattern files when the site is built. None of them is typed in by hand, and none of them is an estimate.