Looking for Patterns

[simonejester]

My Google-fu is starting to fail me, so I thought I'd turn to you lovely people.

I'm looking for free patterns for not just blankets and scarves but clothing items and hats made from squares or other make-a-whole-bunch shapes.

Thanks. <3

P.S. I have a crochet blog that's branched out into knitting and cross-stitch. It's called The Experimental Hooker, if anyone's interested. :)

Comments

[tephra]

I'd definitely go to Ravelry and do a pattern search using "availability: free", "craft: crochet", and "attributes: construction techniques: motif". Maybe "attributes: construction techniques: motif OR modular/join as you go" but that would pick up things that aren't really a bunch of separate pieces.

You could also limit it to specific categories like "category: clothing" to exclude blankets and other home decor items.

[simonejester]

Thanks. I didn't get any results, but it's good to know how to set up the searches. : )

[tephra]

I got 735 hits for motifs, crochet, and free (all categories so lots of blankets) and when I limited it to clothing I got 63 (a couple mis-tagged patterns in there but not many). Is Ravelry having search issues again?

[simonejester]

Either that or they aren't discounting the search I was doing before. I'll try again.

[tephra]

The last time I had search issues it was claiming there were no knit cardigan patterns on Ravelry. Generally it clears up in a hour or so. I think it just gets weird when Casey is working on something.

[simonejester]

Okay. Thanks. :)

[simonejester]

Either that or they aren't discounting the search I was doing before. I'll try again.