Submit Patterns

Why You Should Submit Your Patterns to FreeCrochetDesigns.

Get more traffic to your blog by submitting your patterns. It’s easy, free, and a great way to grow your personal brand!

You may share the latest patterns you’ve posted on your blog and/or patterns from the archives that you’d like to get eyes on.  Become a partner member to submit your free patterns.

If you are not a Crochet Designer Partner Member yet, you can apply to become a partner today.

Benefits for Crochet Designers

Increased Traffic Your Website

• By having your free crochet patterns featured on our site, designers can attract new visitors who are actively looking for patterns.
• By providing minimal pattern information, our readers need to click through to your blog to learn how to make the crochet project. This is a great opportunity to drive traffic to your site.
• Each listing serves as a gateway, encouraging users to click through to the designer’s website to access the full pattern.

Brand Exposure to a New Audience

• Designers get introduced to crocheters who may not have found them otherwise.
• Are you new to the blogging universe? Maybe you’ve been blogging for a while, but you’re looking for new avenues to grow your reach. Every time you share a project with us, your name and blog name getting in front of our readers.
• Our readers have the opportunity to get familiar with your projects and if they love your work, you might gain new subscribers and followers from sharing your pattern with us.
• Being part of a trusted directory like Free Crochet Designs boosts credibility.
• Your pattern might be featured in our newsletter or other places on our site for added exposure.
• Your pattern might be featured in a pattern roundup for added exposure.
• Revive older content.

SEO Benefits

• Backlinks from our site to your pattern pages can improve your site’s search engine ranking, helping attract even more organic traffic.

Community Recognition

• Designers can proudly say they are part of the Free Crochet Designs Partner Program, which adds credibility and professional recognition.

• The badge to the Crochet Designs Partner Program you can place on your site and link back to ours helps build community and adds another layer of trust.

Submission Requirements:

• You must be an accepted into the Free Crochet Designs Partner Program.
• You must be the copyright holder of the submitted pattern design.
• Your pattern link must lead to a secure website, i.e. a https:// URL.
• The pattern link must lead to the full pattern that is free.
• Independent designer blog free links only.
• Patterns must be original designs by YOU
• Patterns must be available in full for free
• Must include a finished pattern photo (or several photos)
• Free graph patterns must be accompanied by full written or video instructions
• Patterns may be featured on another site or blog currently

What We Do Not Accept:

• No links to commissioned designs made for larger companies.
• No guest designer posts.
• No designs which infringe on trademarks or copyright. . If your site contains infringing designs, your other designs may still be rejected.

• Please do not submit duplicate patterns already on our site.
• We do not accept reviews, collections, guides, in-progress crochet a longs, or round-ups.
• We do not accept sponsored posts.

To keep a variety of entries, please limit your submissions to a maximum of 3 a day.

We look for inspiring designs with clear, bright, photos. We are currently looking to fill all categories but may limit certain categories in future.

Submit your free crochet tutorial by filling out this form and you’ll see your crochet pattern featured right here on FreeCrochetDesigns.

If you would like to report an error or would like to request a listing to be removed, please use the contact form.

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