Anyway

I was chat­ting with Eve about crochet pat­terns that are worth mak­ing, and found out she didn’t know about Priscilla’s crochet. Priscilla’s web­site was off the air for what seemed like ages (maybe a year?) but is now back again; it has lots of crochet pat­terns for afghans and book­marks and pothold­ers and that sort of thing. I’ve made a few of the pat­terns and not had any prob­lems with them. The site is a little clunky and old-fashioned, and has a couple of links that look weird, but don’t let that put you off the pat­terns themselves.

I’m fairly old-fashioned in what I like to crochet – mostly Christ­mas dec­or­a­tions, coast­ers, doil­ies, book­marks, hats. I tend to crochet things and then put them away and not use them as I don’t really have the right spots to show them off. Except for the coast­ers, which the cats seem to think I made for them to play with. I don’t usu­ally like the look of cro­cheted cloth­ing although some light, breezy sum­mer tops look good. Not that I’ve ever made one, my list of things to knit and crochet is long enough already!

Other pat­tern links I have found include Free Pat­terns; you have to register at the site but I haven’t got any spam from it that I know of. They have all sorts of pat­terns, not just for crochet and knit­ting. There’s CrochetMe, which claims to have “con­tem­por­ary, cool, hip, fash­ion­able crochet.” There aren’t a lot of pat­terns there that interest me per­son­ally, but then there aren’t a lot of pat­terns (yet), so I’ll prob­ably look again in a few months time and see what’s there. In the pay-for cat­egory, some of the pat­terns at Stitch Diva look good, at least for warmer days or a warmer cli­mate. So many ideas, so little time…