My crochet hero isn’t a single person. In fact it’s not a person at all. I’ts the yarn company Garnstudio, DROPS Design.
They’re my hero for having 529 crochet patterns on their website. For free. That’s just amazing! Okay, I know it’s in their interest to supply patterns to use with their yarn, but still. It’s free! They also don’t have any guarantee that everyone that downloads a pattern, will use Garnstudio yarn, so I think they’re super nice.
When you visit their website you can search for a pattern using this link. Just choose “crochet” as your pattern type. You can of course narrow down the search further if you’re looking for something specific.
As for their yarn: I’m a huge fan. They have an excellent range of yarns and each brand of yarn has a huge, oh so lovely, colour range to choose from.
I’ve used Drops Delight, Drops Paris, Drops BabyAlpaca Silk and Drops Cotton Viscose and I love them all.
I think my favourite has to be the BabyAlpaca Silk that I used for the Whispers Cardigan. The cardigan is a Garnstudio pattern, so it was a very good match and I think it’s part of the reason why my cardigan came out so lovely. The pattern and the yarn were definitely made for each other.
Drops yarn is also extremely affordable which is definitely heroic.
The DROPS Price policy is to always be 20-30 % below the general market price level. To make sure our customers benefit from this, the DROPS yarn is always marketed with a price guarantee, we call the max price. Max price is a guarantee from our retailers to our customers that the DROPS products are sold at these prices, or less.
Not only do the Garnstudio website have all the lovely patterns, they have crochet tutorial videos. The videos are without commentary so anyone, no matter what language, can follow the videos and learn something new. There are five pages of videos! I especially like this technique of joining granny squares with a zig zag pattern.
What more do you want? Lots of beautiful crochet patterns, videos to refer to when you get stuck and an amazing selection of yarn at a very reasonable price.
Garnstudio DROPS Design = my hero.
P.S. From 1 – 30 May, 24 of the Garnstudio Drops yarns are on sale at 30% discount (see the list of yarn and discounted prices here) and until 30 April Drops Cotton Light is 25% off. What did I say about affordable yarn?!
Go forth and purchase ye Hookers.
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I really need to get into crocheting if only to have a fabulous stash of wool
Lynn
One I Made Earlier Today
What a fabulous post! Thank you! 🙂 That zig-zag joining technique is so quick & simple. I guess the gaps wouldn’t be so big using a smaller hook. The yarn colours are simply delicious, but how to choose!?! 🙂
Have a lovely day 🙂
How fantastic are Drops… thank you for all the links.
I just might spent this rainy morning having a little look around!
Regards
Helen x
Oooo nice perspective on the topic and I am most definitely lusting after those yarns. The Tween will enjoy the tutorials too. Isn’t the internet just amazing? My wish is for all hookers to click the mouse and start surfing to broaden their horizons by discovering all the sites and ideas.
Thank you for the tip off! I haven’t used any Drops patterns yet but you may just have changed that! And if there is a 30% off offer on that yarn, that is where I’m going right now!