Crochetilly is written by Elie, and it covers the small end of crochet: flowers, bandanas, amigurumi, fruit for a toy kitchen, and clothes for people too small to complain about the fit. Nothing here is a blanket. That was deliberate, because the small makes are the ones people actually finish.
What this site is claiming, and what it is not
Elie has been crocheting for a few years and has worked in most of the forms this site covers. That is honest, and it is not the reason to read anything here. Plenty of people have held a hook for longer.
What she does professionally is write and research, and that is the skill this site actually runs on. Crochetilly is not claiming to be written by the most experienced crocheter on the internet. It is claiming something narrower, more useful, and far easier for you to check: every number in a guide comes from a named source or is worked out from one, and the arithmetic is on the page.
That sounds like a low bar until you go looking. Search almost any crochet question and you will find twenty pages that agree with each other and none that checked. Ask how much yarn a project takes and you get a figure nobody weighed. Ask what size safety eyes to use and one guide says 10 mm where another says 20 mm for the same toy, and neither mentions the other exists.
How a guide here is put together
- Every figure comes from a named source. A size, a yardage, a hook, a stitch count: it came off the designer’s own page or the yarn label, and the guide links to it.
- Derived numbers say so. Where we multiply a skein count by a put-up, or divide a yardage by a square count, the guide says the figure is derived and shows the working so you can check it.
- Missing means missing. If a designer never published a yardage, the table says none. We would rather show a blank than a guess dressed up as a fact.
- Disagreements stay visible. When two good sources contradict each other, both go in the table and the guide explains which unstated assumption caused the gap. That is usually the most useful paragraph on the page.
- We link to designers, we do not republish them. Their work belongs on their page, with their traffic and their credit.
Products, and what a recommendation here means
Some guides cover yarn, hooks, safety eyes and where to buy them. When we compare products we compare the published specifications, the put-up, the fibre content, the sizing, and we say where each figure came from, exactly as with everything else. Where we have not used something ourselves, the guide says so rather than implying otherwise.
Some of those links earn a commission. No retailer pays to be recommended and no commission rate decides what a guide says. The arrangement is set out on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
Toys, and where we will not be casual
A lot of what this site covers ends up in a child’s hands. A handmade toy is not a tested toy, safety eyes are a choking hazard for anyone under three whatever the packet calls them, and no amount of good crochet changes that. Every guide that touches toys or baby items carries the safety note, and the full position is on the Disclaimer page. It is the one part of this site written to be boring on purpose.
Who this is written for
Anyone from a first granny square upward. Guides assume you can hold a hook and follow a row, and they explain everything after that rather than assuming you already know it. If a term appears, it gets defined the first time it is used.
Corrections
If a number here is wrong, it matters, and telling us is the most useful thing you can do. Quote the sentence and the page and write to contact@crochetilly.com. We check it against the source and fix it, and the guide records when it was updated. A site that promises checked figures has to be correctable, or the promise is decoration.