About

About this site

The Weekend Folio is a small site about crochet and the quieter end of keeping a house. Its articles and patterns are researched and drafted with AI tools, then edited against standard references: yarn manufacturers' ball-band data, the Craft Yarn Council weight and hook standards, and established crochet stitch references.

Why every pattern starts with a specification

Most free patterns online tell you what to do but not what you need. You find out the gauge was different four inches in, or that "one skein" meant a skein twice the size of yours. So every pattern here opens with the full specification: hook in millimetres, yarn weight, estimated yardage, the gauge over a stated swatch, and the finished measurements.

What has been checked, and what has not

Every pattern is checked on paper: stitch counts at the end of each round or row, stitch multiples, increase and decrease rates, and whether the sizing table agrees with the gauge. That review has caught and fixed real errors before publication.

The patterns have not been physically worked up. Yardage figures are estimates calculated from gauge and typical yarn usage for the stitch, not weights of a finished piece. Swatch first, change hook size if your gauge does not match, and buy a spare skein for anything larger than an accessory.

Terms and conventions

Patterns use US crochet terms throughout, and each pattern says so. If you are used to UK terms, remember that a US single crochet is a UK double crochet — the names are offset by one all the way up.

What this site does not do

There are no star ratings, no review counts and no testimonials anywhere on this site, because none have been collected. When there are real ones, they will appear — and not before.

A note on the rebuild

This site was rebuilt from scratch in July 2026. The previous version had accumulated hundreds of near-duplicate pages that helped nobody, and those have been consolidated rather than left in place. Old links still work; they point to the closest surviving pattern or section.

Get in touch

If a stitch count does not come out, please say so — that is a bug and it gets fixed. Write to hello@theweekendfolio.com or use the contact page.