About this site
What is here, who wrote it, and the things it does not have.
Crochet Rituals gathers up crochet patterns their designers gave away, retypes each one into a single layout, and puts it on a page that comes off a printer as a working sheet. There are 18 of them today, holding 305 round instructions between them.
Nobody here designed these patterns. They were written by the people who published them. Where the trail back to the original page is intact the pattern links it, and 5 of the 18 carry that link today. The other 13 reached this site without one and say as much on the page.
No person is named as the author of anything on this site, because no person here wrote it. The instructions belong to their original authors. The layout, the abbreviation key and the print sheet belong to the site. If that ever stops being true, this page changes before any other.
Straight answers about what is missing
- 13 of the 18 patterns have no linked source. Each of those pages says so, in the same place, in the same sentence.
- 94 of the 305 round instructions carry no stitch count, because whoever typed the original never printed one. Nobody has counted the stitches since to fill that gap.
- 8 counts on this site were computed by a program rather than printed by the designer. They are marked on the round they belong to, and the page tells you to check that round yourself.
- 1 pattern arrived with no step photographs. Its page carries no such section, and neither a sketch nor a blank frame pretends otherwise.
- Nothing is scored, starred or counted as popular. The data these pages were built from carried a score and a maker tally for most patterns. Both were invented, so both were deleted before the first page was written.
How a pattern gets onto this site
- A pattern that its author published free is read in full, and wherever that page is still reachable its address is recorded.
- Every round is retyped into one format: a label, the instruction as the designer wrote it, and the stitch count in a column of its own.
- The short forms that pattern uses become its key, which sits beside the rounds on a wide screen and comes out on the paper when the sheet is printed.
- The photographs are the ones the original author took. Nothing is generated, lightened or restaged.
