Your all-in-one workshop
Needle brings together the people who write patterns and the people who make them: seven crafts, interactive patterns, and your makes followed from the first stitch to the last.
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- Knitting
- Crochet
- Tunisian crochet
- Sewing
- Punch needle
- Embroidery
- Sashiko
English & French
Patterns published by the community
Open one: you can read it without an account.
The specification
(what we offer)
An interactive pattern, point by point
A pattern published here is not a frozen document. It adapts to the size and the language of whoever reads it, explains its technical terms where they appear, and exports to PDF with those same settings.
Technical sheets for every stitch
Each technical term in the instructions carries the link to the sheet that explains it.
Technical sheets for every yarn
Composition, length, recommended needle sizes, colourways: the yarn a pattern asks for has a sheet of its own.
French and English
The pattern is written once. The translation is produced and then kept, so it reads the same from one reading to the next.
Display set at reading time
The chosen size, and stitches shown as abbreviations or written out in full.
PDF export that follows those settings
The export keeps the language, the size and the display retained — not a generic copy.
The tools the work needs
A pattern is not only text. The diagrams it calls for — a colourwork chart, a granny square, a layout of squares — are drawn here, and go into the pattern itself with no other software involved.
Colourwork
A grid up to 300 stitches a side, ten colours, and stitch symbols named after the technique they come from.
Granny square
A diagram worked in rounds, each one adjustable from a square to a circle.
Assembly
The plan of a blanket or a bag: which square goes where, and how many of each it takes.
A place to publish, whatever the craft
Given away or sold, a pattern is published in the same place, whatever the craft — knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery, sashiko. Nothing to set up and no file to upload: it is read in the application, in the size and the language of whoever opens it, and it stays current, where a PDF sold once is frozen. The price, the publishing and the withdrawal stay with the author; collecting the payment is taken care of.
A record of every project
A project in progress is followed row by row: progress is marked as the work goes, stitch counters stay within reach of the pattern itself, and notes taken along the way stay attached to the project. Once it is finished it can be published: its page then reads without an account, like a pattern's. Or it stays private, by one setting.
An encyclopaedia of craft
Every craft has its own library: sheets for the stitches, the methods and the finishing, the common mistakes and the way out of them. For a beginner, an ordered path leads from the first sheet to the first project. All of it can be browsed freely — or, on a paid plan, asked of Lulu, the assistant, who draws on those same sheets.
Simple pricing
Free to follow your own makes. Paid when you want to write and sell patterns.
Free
€0.00
Everything you need to follow your makes and read the patterns the community publishes.
Member
€5.00 / month
For makers with several projects on the go, and the assistant to help along the way.
Creator
€20.00 / month
For designers: write interactive patterns, publish them, and sell them.
No commitment - cancel at any time.
| Included | Free | Member | Creator |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating and writing patterns | Not included | Included | Included |
| Creation helper tools | Not included | Included | Included |
| Full knowledge database | Not included | Included | Included |
| Searching the material library | Not included | Included | Included |
| Statistics | Not included | Included | Included |
| Selling patterns | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Projects from free patterns, per month | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Assistant credits, per week* | 0 | 25 | 200 |
Questions
Your next make starts here
Follow what you make, read what others publish, and write your own when you feel like it.
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