35,000 Free Knitting and Crocheting Patterns
Finding Great Patterns
Below is a list of 22 websites offering free knitting and crocheting patterns. Some offer thousands of patterns. Some also offer additional patterns for sale.
Our list is ordered based on several factors. We prefer websites that are easily searchable, that offer some modern patterns, and that are mobile-friendly. We’re hoping you’ll find a good match and bookmark it.
Whenever we could, we’ve provided links that go directly to the free pattern webpage rather than the home page, to save you some time.
Please beware that some patterns are formatted in inches and some are in cm, because some of these sites are from companies based in Europe.
A few of these sites are connected to fiber arts stores or yarn manufacturing companies. They offer free patterns, and links may lead to an online store patterns, yarn, tools, and kits. Some of the websites also have YouTube channels with tutorials.
If there’s a website that’s a good match for you, with great free patterns that you can’t wait to make, you might take the time to look around their website to see if they also offer free tutorials. It might be just what you’ve been looking for.
We highly recommend you sign up for a free account at Ravelry. It’s a worldwide community of makers where you’re sure to find online knitting pals and connect with some crafters who share your preferences in patterns and colors.
If you're just starting out, you may want to read our posts Yarn and Knitting Basics, How to Knit, Knitting Videos, and Digitized Knitting Magazines.
Here's Our List
We hope you get inspired for your next project:
1. Vogue Knitting
Vogue Knitting, the fashion powerhouse, offers a collection of 290 free patterns that you can download as .pdfs. Sort by designer or yarn company at the top of the webpage.
Vogue Knitting has another page where you can use the left side sorting choices to narrow down your search based on knitting and crocheting project type, yarn weight, and skill level.
Be sure to check out Vogue's helpful instructions for making different knitting stitches, called Stitchionary, as well as their yarn store finder online app, which provides your search answer with both a list and a map.
2. Lion Brand
What pattern does Lion Brand – a yarn manufacturing company - not have? With over 7600 free knitting and crocheting patterns available for download, you’ll most likely be able to find whatever pattern you could think of from Lion Brand (including some whimsical patterns that you haven’t probably thought of, like Psy and Thai’s Kitty Cozy, Felted Siamese Cat, the Patriot Dog Sweater, Knit Grass Rug, and a Mermaid Tail Cocoon).
There are also some patterns for sale, including several knit and crochet patterns of armlets, capes, and shawls based on Outlander: The Series.
You’ll have to create an account, but then you’ll be able to search their free patterns by skill level and project type. After you click on the name of the pattern you'd like to download, you'll be taken to a page where you can select the yellow "Free Download Pattern" rectangle to access a .pdf. There's no need to buy anything. The orange "Buy Now" button is for purchasing yarn for the project.
3. Ravelry
Ravelry.com * is free a social network platform for fiber art crafters: knitters, crocheters, spinners, and weavers. It functions as a place to organize and document projects, find free patterns, and purchase patterns from fellow Ravelryers. You can also join groups within Ravelry, search for local yarn stores, see projects that people have made, hang out online in a place of like-minded crafters from around the world, and find groups who meet up in real life.
It’s a resource of thousands of free patterns.
Once you sign up for a free account, you can keep an online notebook of your projects. Get organized and keep notes for future projects. Or, search friends’ stashes, join groups, and trade or sell physical copies of books. As part of the Ravelry community, you can add a pattern and offer it for free or for sale. You'll find a lot of wonderful, unique patterns for sale from other Revelryers inside the site.
When you find a pattern you like on Ravelry, you might want to think ahead to your next project, and check out the projects made by others who also made that pattern. Don’t forget to look at the forums for a group/s that might match your style.
4. Purl Soho
Purl Soho is a fabric arts store located in the Soho section of Manhattan. Besides being a brick and mortar store that sells yarn and knitting tools, fabric, and patterns, they offer over 600 free patterns for knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, weaving, and crafting projects.
Their designs have a modern feel, both in pattern design and color choices.
Their patterns include sweaters, scarves, hats, mittens, toys, blankets, and throws.
5. All Free Knitting
All Free Knitting offers free patterns which you can search by popularity, easiness for beginners, and type of project. It also lists quick links to specific projects that you can link to without sorting through a category.
6. Wool and the Gang
Wool and the Gang has 29 free patterns. These patterns pack a punch in their modern feel, including some chunky knit pieces, a Marley bucket hat, and a Medieval-inspired dress that looks like chain mail.
I’m a huge fan of their knitting tutorials – so I’m hoping you’ll check them out. You can find kits, wool, and links to their Woolschool here: Wool and the Gang.
7. Garn Studio
Drops Design at Garn Studio has free patterns for knitting and crocheting projects, in 17 different languages. If you’re looking for free Nordic pattern sweater designs for free, you’re in luck. They have 8,187 patterns which have been translated into English.
To access their pattern library, you'll first have to choose your language in a drop-down menu in the middle of their landing page. If your language is English, you’ll have to choose between English US and English UK- which, of course, is all about inches versus centimeters. The English US page has 7,081 patterns; English UK has 8,190 patterns. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you how many of those patterns are repeats from US to UK, where the pattern lists both inches and centimeters.
They have an extensive variety of Nordic sweaters, socks, hats mittens, and dog sweaters.
8. Love Knitting
Love Knitting has over 9,400 free knitting patterns and 104 free crochet patterns available for download.
This site has especially adorable baby sweaters and toys, as well as a boatload of Aran sweater patterns.
9. Yarnspirations
Yarnspirations has over 1,600 free downloadable knitting patterns, with ability level indicated on each pattern.
You can also find over 1,500 free downloadable crochet patterns, with ability level indicated on each pattern.
My favorite part of this website is their Lookbooks section, with projects put together as themes, either as a single page or as an online magazine. They’ve created inspirational themes such as Blanket Statements, Snuggle Sacks, Cozy Cabin, and Country Mouse/City Mouse. Please note – we haven’t done our research to see whether any of the patterns included in the Lookbooks section are free.
10. Bluprint (formerly Craftsy)
You’ll have to create a free account to access patterns via their checkout page, but Bluprint has over 2,600 Free Knitting Patterns available for download. It’s a vast resource. There are 42,000 knitting patterns in all, so if you want to venture out of the free zone you’ll find a lot of projects to consider. Craftsy was rebranded as Bluprint in January, 2019. If you have a Craftsy account, your information will still work with Bluprint.
11. Yarn
Yarn.com, an online store selling yarn from 110 different yarn manufacturers (including West Yorkshire Spinners and Briggs & Little Yarn), has 878 free knitting patterns and 10 free crochet patterns available for download. Please note that the downloading procedure is not standardized on this site, so some patterns are not as easy to access as others.
While visiting the site for free patterns, you might want to search through their yarn choices from around the world.
12. Knitty
The site Knitty.com can be searched for patterns on their archive page. Under 'What Would You Like to Knit,' use the drop down menu to find free patterns. Once you’ve selected a category from the menu, you’ll see a page of thumbnail photos of projects. Once you click on a project, you’ll be taken to a page with the pattern written out – no .pdf download necessary.
13. Berroco
Berroco.com is a yarn manufacturer which offers 735 free patterns –shawls, sweaters, socks, bags, ponchos, and afghans. They also have some unusual patterns - miniature sweaters for dolls and stuffies, and knitted café curtains.
While you’re on the site, you should check out their really great How-To video tutorials, listed under Learning Center.
14. Knitting Pattern Central
Knitting Pattern Central is a directory of free patterns, sorted by types of projects, with over 15,000 free patterns. The links are external, not internal, so you’ll be sent to other websites - personal blogs and Ravelry, for example, which may require you to sign up.
Since there are no thumbnail photos, you won’t know what the project looks like until you click on the pattern name. You’re at least 2 clicks away from seeing a photo of a project.
They may also lead you to pages that are no longer active, or where the .pdf download doesn’t work. But…it could also lead you to your next project! It’s a great resource, but it may take some patience to wade through all the possibilities.
Note that the tutorial links are all external as well.
15. Red Heart
Yarn company Red Heart offers 3, 897 free knitting and crocheting patterns for download – including cardigans, shawls, throws, kids’ sweaters, scarves, women’s sweaters, baby blankets, appliques, poufs, bed sack, bags, dopp bags, storage baskets, pin cushions, Christmas ornaments, leg warmers, hats, mittens, and others.
You’ll find a range of pattern difficulties from Easy, Beginner, Intermediate, and Experienced.
16. Knit Picks
Knit Picks has free patterns for hats, scarves, socks, dishcloths, mittens, throws, mug cozies, spa cloths, pillows, and blankets.
The dishcloths are small projects – approximately 9” x 8” –but they’re a great way to learn some beautiful stitch patterns.
17. Jean Greenhowe Designs
Jean Greenhowe Designs offers several free download designs for dolls and toys: Rainbow Babies, Meet the Ghostlys, Dainty Dollies, Nittybods, Squidgy Beanbugs, Cup ad Birdie Game, Jolly Octopuses, Easter Egg Treats, Toy box Snowman, Halloween Ghosties, Novelty Eggs, Mini Christmas Stockings, Tea Party Treats, and Big, Little, and Tiny Robots. All are super cute!
18. Rowan
Rowan, the British yarn manufacturing company, offers over 400 free knitting patterns on their website, including several free patterns by the extraordinary designer Kaffee Fassett.
19. Yarn In Yarn Out
The blog Yarn In Yarn Out offers free patterns. You’ll have to click on the pattern description before you get to see what the project looks like.
You’ll get to see photos of the crocheted projects on the free crochet pattern page.
20. Interweave
Interweave offers more than 200 free crochet patterns in exchange for signing up for their newsletter.
21. Crochetville
Crochetville is an online community of crocheters. After becoming a member, you can head over to Crochet Patterns: Free Original Patterns, where you’ll find 30,739 member posts.
22. Very Pink
One of my favorite sites with video tutorials, Very Pink, offers free patterns. After clicking on a pattern, you’ll go to a page that includes a video tutorial for the project. You might have to be redirected to another site to grab the pattern, but a good video tutorial is worth the extra prep.
So...now you're set with over 35,000 freebies!
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You can also access free patterns through the Internet Archive's freely available digitized knitting magazines. The site contains thousands of magazines which you can digitally flip through. The knitting magazines there are chock full of patterns published on their pages. This is a great resource for all sorts of patterns and styles - vintage, classic, and modern.
You can access thousands of free knitting patterns! You can also keep costs for your projects down by repurposing old sweaters into usable yarn. This is a great way to save money. It's also a great way to find some colors or yarn types that you might not be able to find at your local yarn store. For a guide on how to unwind sweaters and properly prepare the wool into new yarn, read Recycling and Upcycling for Crafts.
And, if you're curious about which knitting books are the most popular and which knitting techniques are trending, check out our curated list of 25 Best Selling Knitting Books. Click through to see what readers are saying about these beloved books, and maybe add one to your library! As a preview, below are five of our picks. [As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases (at no extra cost to you).]
GREAT BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY |
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 First published in 1989, Vogue Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book instantly became a beloved resource for knitters. The second edition, released in 2002, further cemented its place as the most trusted knitting resource. The past 15 years have seen many exciting advances in knitting, and this update encompasses them all. It features an expanded library of cast-ons, increases, decreases, and bind-offs. It covers in-depth sections on newly favorite techniques such as brioche, entrelac, double knitting, and mosaic knitting. |
 Every knitter, whether a beginner or an expert, wants easy projects for travel, gifts or those times when following a complex pattern is impractical. Sequence Knitting introduces a radical and simple approach for creating amazing fabrics by working a sequence of stitches over and over again. Beginning with 1-row patterns, the book delves into the possibilities of this technique, expanding into methods for creating complex designs that can be worked back and forth, in the round, or in shapes like triangles. |
 AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary takes an unexpected look at stranded colorwork with 200 new motifs. These non-traditional colorwork charts are perfect for the creative knitter looking to break away from the ordinary. Derived from graphic design elements, these fresh motifs include everything from geometric mountains, waves, and spirals to modern bikes, skulls, and sheep. Included are sections on reading charts, working floats, and choosing colors. Learn how stranded colorwork can be used in design with five accompanying projects including mitts, cowls, and sweaters. |
 In Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible, Hitomi Shida's strikingly original designs and variations on every imaginable classic stitch result in intricate patterns that form the basis for beautiful and unique knitted fashions. This is the perfect book for the experienced knitter who is looking for new stitches that yield spectacular results. This Japanese knitting book features a wide range of rewarding and intricate stitches, including: cables, popcorn stitches, twisted stitches, edgings, and many more. A set of detailed, step-by-step diagrams show you how to execute all the basic stitches. |
 Fiber and yarn enthusiasts nationwide will celebrate Ann Budd's latest addition to The Knitter's Handy Book series, Top Down Sweaters. Answering to a growing interest in knitting sweaters from the top down and knitting seamless sweaters that require little finishing, this handy book offers instructions for knitting five basic sweater types: circular yoke, raglan, modified-drop shoulder, set-in sleeve, and saddle shoulder. Patterns are offered in multiple sizes and yarn gauges and for a broad age group. |
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