Using these patterns

What belongs to Yarn Gallery

The written pattern text, the round-by-round instructions, the assembly notes, the little margin remarks and every drawing on these pages. I wrote them and I drew them at this table, which is why they are mine.

What does not belong to me is the stitch itself. Nobody owns a single crochet, a magic ring or the idea of a small green plant in a pot. If you work out your own version of a snail, that is yours entirely and I will be pleased for you.

What you may do, with no permission needed

• Make anything here for yourself, for your family, for a friend, for a raffle or for a charity table.
• Sell what you make. Craft fairs, a market stall, a village hall, your own shop or an online one. No fee, no licence, no limit on numbers.
• Change it. Different yarn, a bigger hook, other colours, longer ears. The finished make is yours and you can call it your own work.
• Take your own photographs of the thing you made and put them wherever you like.
• Keep a copy for your own hands — copied into your notebook, or open on your own screen at the table. That copy is yours to work from, not to hand round.

What you may not do

• Republish the pattern text, in whole or in part, anywhere else.
• Translate it and post the translation as your own page.
• Collect it into a booklet, a bundle or a members-only group, paid or free.
• Mirror these pages, or feed them to a site that reposts other people's patterns.
• Sell the instructions in any form, or claim you wrote them.
• Use my drawings as your product photos. Photograph your own make instead; yours will look better anyway, because yours is real yarn.

Link instead of copying

If you want to share a pattern with a group, a class or a round-up post, link to the page. A link always points at the current version of the page, and copies never do. If a round-up needs a picture, one image with a visible credit and a link back to the pattern page is welcome.

Asking for permission

Some things I am happy to say yes to, and the only way to find out is to ask. Write to hello@yarngallery.com and tell me three things: which pattern, where it would go, and for how long. A workshop handout for one afternoon is an easy yes. A whole pattern retyped onto another website is a no, and it will always be a no.

As a rule of thumb: I nearly always say yes to a link, and nearly always say no to a copy.

If you find one of my patterns somewhere it should not be

Send me the address. I would rather hear it from you than not hear it at all, and the person who copied it is usually more embarrassed than malicious. See also the plain terms, which cover the rest.

Last rewritten: 24 August 2026.

Tamsin, from the basket