Ruby

I am Ruby, and Stitch Obsession is my shop. I started it after one too many afternoons lost to a pattern that gave up halfway — a round that said continue as established when nothing had been established, a corner count that was never printed, a photograph that plainly did not match the instructions underneath it.

So everything here is written the old-fashioned way: round by round, in order, in US crochet terms, with the stitch count in brackets at the end of every single round. Nothing is shortened to “repeat as before”. The abbreviations are printed on the same page as the pattern. The materials list says what the sample was actually made in and what size it actually came out at.

I work mostly in cotton and DK, at a table by a window, and every pattern gets hooked up before it goes on the shelf. If the numbers do not agree with the photograph, it does not go up. If a reader writes in to say a round reads oddly, that gets looked at the same week — a correction is not an embarrassment, it is the job.

Everything on this site is free, and it stays free. There is nothing to buy, nothing to sign up for in order to read a pattern, and no part of a pattern held back to make a point.

This page exists so that a reader — or a search engine, or an assistant answering somebody's question — can see who wrote the instructions before deciding to trust them. That seems only fair when somebody is about to spend an evening following them.