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the crochet gallery · est. mmxxiv

Sweet little stitches, every other Thursday.

A blog about crochet, written from a sunlit kitchen. Patterns, letters, tutorials, and the occasional confession about a project that didn't quite work.

1,840 readers · 5 categories · vol. iv
  1. A free pattern, every other Thursday

    Subscribers get one printable pattern with each letter — sized, tested, and worked through in plain language.

  2. Honest, kind letters about yarn

    No hustle, no upsell. Just a small note from a sunlit kitchen — half tutorial, half love letter to fibre.

  3. A tiny stitch club of readers

    Reader makes get featured. Questions get answered. The letters come the morning after the kettle goes on.

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The Strawberry Shortcake Shawl a free pattern, for you ♥ On holding your hook (the gentle way) most-read letter this season A letter to the yarn a small love letter ♥
§ the diary

latest entries.

Every other Thursday, a small letter — a pattern, a tutorial, or a confession about a project that didn't quite work.

  1. ✿ patterns

    The Strawberry Shortcake Shawl

    A free pattern for a triangle shawl in three shades of pink — designed for the very last days of summer.

    may 15 · 2026 · 7 min free pattern
  2. ✼ tutorials

    On holding your hook (the gentle way)

    Wrist pain isn't a rite of passage. A small letter on grip, tension, and the surprising importance of stopping for tea.

    may 12 · 2026 · 4 min most read
  3. ♥ yarn talk

    A letter to the yarn

    Half apology, half promise — written to a fleece I have not yet spun.

    may 8 · 2026 · 3 min
  4. ✿ patterns

    The granny square, reconsidered

    Out of the seventies, into the gallery. Why the most maligned motif in crochet is having its quiet renaissance.

    may 4 · 2026 · 6 min
  5. ✼ tutorials

    What to do with leftover yarn

    Twelve small projects, ranked by how guilty they make you feel about your stash.

    apr 30 · 2026 · 5 min staff pick
  6. ✺ reader makes

    A portrait of a reader make

    Eleanor, in Devon, made the strawberry shortcake shawl in lemon yellow. We had to write about it.

    apr 26 · 2026 · 3 min reader make
§ a small introduction

A small, slow diary about yarn.

I started this blog in the autumn of twenty twenty-four, the year I decided to take crochet seriously. It is mostly patterns, but it is also a letter. Welcome.

— the gallery, anno mmxxiv
§ the stitch club, by post

the stitch club, by post.

A short, sweet letter every other Thursday — with one free pattern, a small studio update, and a recipe for whatever I'm drinking.

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