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Please browse around and check out what we've recently added. Sign up for our newsletter to get updates and bookmark us to visit us again. This is the place for all kinds of craft information, free stuff and fantastic deals for all your crafting needs. We add new stuff every week!

Do you have old leaflets and pattern books that are looking for a new home or find a pattern that needs a correction? Contact Us! We'd love to hear from you.

Hundreds of free patterns available from copyright holders who have given us permission to reproduce them here for you, including Coats & Clark, Teresa Wentzler and Plaid Company. You are free to print and share all of these free patterns as many times as you'd like, but please be respectful of the copyright. You are not allowed to profit in any way from the use of the patterns published on the Purple Kitty website without express written permission from the copyright holder. Copyright information can be found on each pattern page.

Afghan Patterns | Christmas Patterns | Craft Patterns | Cross Stitch Patterns | Hat Patterns | Holiday Patterns | Kid Clothes Patterns | Pattern Squares | Pillow Patterns | Poncho Patterns | Purse Patterns | Scarf Patterns | Shawl Patterns | Sock Patterns | Sweater Patterns

Yarn

Because Coats & Clark has been gracious enough to allow us to reproduce their patterns here, we encourage you to consider supporting them through your yarn purchases by using Coats & Clark products for your projects. The company's product line includes quality yarns and threads under the brand names Red Heart, TLC, Moda Dea, J&P Coats, and Aunt Lydia's.

Are you having difficulty finding the thread or yarn needed for your project? Purple Kitty has entered into partnerships with several, well-known retailers, including Joann, Herrschners through Shop.com, Dick Blick, MisterArt and Create For Less to help you find that perfect or favorite yarn online for your knitting, crochet or other type of craft project if you're unable to find it at your local yarn or craft store. Take a look at all of the yarn and threads currently available from our partners.

Downloadable ePatterns

If you prefer to have immediate access to your patterns, we have a couple of different types of downloadable patterns available for purchase.

If you're looking for vintage crochet and knitting patterns, as we reproduce vintage pattern leaflets, we publish the patterns on our Free Crochet Pattern and Free Knitting Pattern websites. You can print these patterns directly from the website for free.

Additionally, we've been turning the entire leaflet into a a convenient eBook that is immediately available as a download as soon as payment is received. For only $2.49 each, you can save the entire eBook to your computer's harddrive for easy access anytime you want it.

Browse through the Pattern eBooks we now have. We continue to add new eBooks every time we reproduce a new vintage leaflet.

Partnering with Leisure Arts has enabled us to bring you their collection of Leisure Arts downloadable ePatterns from their previous publications, many of them now out of print and very hard to find, but still much sought after!

Founded in 1971, Leisure Arts is one of the world's largest publishers of lifestyle and instructional materials. Through the years, Leisure Arts has published thousands of how-to books, leaflets, magazines, and other publications. LeisureArtsLibrary.com was established to give you access to Leisure Arts designs that are not available in print anymore.

Many of the downloadable designs at this site are from publications for which Leisure Arts no longer has inventory in their warehouse. Some downloads are special projects that have never been published in a traditional format. They have made available thousands of patterns from their archives by request on LeisureArtsLibrary.com. If you're looking for a specific Leisure Arts pattern and it isn't currently available in the Library, complete the Library Survey to submit a request and Leisure Arts will try to make it available.

Whatever type of project you're looking for and need right away, you're sure to find one available in one of our downloadable options.

Hard To Find

There's nothing more frustrating than having the perfect idea for a project, but being unable to find the yarn any more because it's been discontinued or the pattern because it's out of print. Nowadays, online auctions have provided us with an opportunity to find long-lost treasures or gently used second-hand items anywhere in the world. Look at the bargains available on eBay!

Looking for other types of craft items? No problem! eBay has a plethora of different Craft Categories available for you, or you could always search for exactly what you're looking for!

William-Adolphe Bouguereau Artwork

William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter from the late 1800s. Bouguereau was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world by the Academic art community and he was very famous in his time, but today his subject matter and technique receive relatively little attention compared to the popularity of the Impressionists. Today, over one hundred museums throughout the world exhibit Bouguereau's works.

It's too bad that Bouguereau's work isn't more popular today since his paintings are beautiful and include crochet, knitting and other craft themes, perfect for the crafter looking to decorate a craft room!

In an effort to bring this painters gorgeous artworks back to life, we've recreated them and put them on various items that you might find useful. You can buy decorative pieces such as framed prints, posters or refrigerator magnets, or practical and useful pieces such as journals, postcards and greeting cards.

Magazine Subscriptions

Keep your crafting, crocheting and knitting projects coming automatically all year long with a subscription to a magazine or two jam-packed with popular and fun patterns.

We've partnered with Blue Dolphin to not only offer you dozens of craft-themed magazines, but their entire inventory of more than 1,300 magazines, including all of the best-selling titles and hard-to-find periodicals. Ordering a subscription through Blue Dolphin means you'll get the lowest publisher-authorized price for your magazines - up to an 85% savings off of the cover price.

With every magazine subscription, you also get Blue Dolphin's 100% risk-free guarantee. If you're not 100% completely satisfied with your magazines, for any reason whatsoever, you may cancel anytime within 90 days of placing your order for a full refund.

There's no reason to wait to subscribe to your favorite magazines!

Standard delivery time for most magazines is 6 to 8 weeks. Some monthly magazines and those published less frequently may take a little longer.

Rainbow Spring Acres

Interested in angora or pygora fleece? Our farm has rovings and raw fiber available ready for you to spin.

If you'd prefer premium mohair yarn instead, we have that too! Our angora mohair / merino wool yarn comes in large 4 ounce skeins. We took the best of the best and combined it into a luxurious yarn ready to make your products truly special for that loved one. A must for the serious minded knitter or crocheter. Machine spun for consistency.

For more information about fleece and yarn products, check out the farm website!

Please Note: Please do not contact the farm with pattern questions. For more information about free patterns found here, contact the Purple Kitty webmaster.