Two different things
There are two objects in play whenever you use a pattern from this site, and almost every question about copyright dissolves once you separate them.
The first is the written pattern: the words on the page, the round-by-round instructions, the counts, the notes, the materials list and the artwork beside them. I wrote and drew all of that, and it belongs to Crochet Obsessed.
The second is the thing you crochet: the actual throw, cushion cover, hanger or coaster that comes off your hook, made from your yarn, in your hours. That belongs to you, completely, from the first chain.
The finished item is yours to sell
Make it, keep it, gift it, sell it. If you want to put a Sundown Ripple Throw on a market stall or a coaster set in an online shop, go ahead. No permission needed, no fee, no cap on numbers, no license to apply for.
The only line I would ask you not to cross is calling the design your own. Sell the object, describe it however sells it best, and if somebody asks where the pattern came from, point them at this site. A credit is genuinely appreciated and genuinely optional.
If you photograph your finished piece for a listing or a post, use your own photograph. Please do not lift the artwork from this site to sell something with.
The written pattern stays on this site
The instructions themselves do not travel. That means please do not:
- Paste the pattern text, or a rewritten version of it, onto a blog, a forum, a marketplace listing or a social platform.
- Translate it into another language and publish the translation.
- Turn it into a file and pass that around, or drop it into a shared folder, a group chat or a kit.
- Copy it into a paid post, a members' area, a course or a subscription of any kind.
- Mirror or scrape these pages, or feed them into a service that republishes them.
- Take the illustrations, the card art or the logo for use somewhere else.
The reason is not possessiveness. It is that a copy freezes the moment it is made, while the page here keeps being tidied, reworded and improved. Anyone reading the copy is stuck on an old version forever, on somebody else's site, with no way back to the one I am still looking after.
Link instead, and link like this
Sharing is welcome and easy: send the address of the pattern page. A link always shows the current version, and it costs you nothing.
In a post, a round-up or a newsletter, name the pattern, say a sentence about it in your own words, use your own photograph of your own work, and link to the page here. That is the whole etiquette. You do not need to ask me first for a round-up like that.
Classes, groups and libraries
Teaching a pattern to a group in person, or working through one together at a craft circle, is fine. Have everyone open the page on their own screen, or write to me and say what you need. If a room genuinely has no screens between them, ask and we will sort something out for that session.
What is not fine is a class handout that reproduces the pattern text and then keeps circulating long after the class ended, or a paid workshop built around a pattern text taken from here without asking.
Machines and mass reproduction
The patterns here are written for a person with a hook. Feeding them into a system that regurgitates, rewrites or resells them is not a use I permit, and neither is producing the written pattern in bulk in any form.
How to ask for permission
If your plan is not obviously covered above, ask. The answer is yes more often than people expect, and a short message saves us both a guess.
Write to hello@crochetobsessed.com with three things in it: which pattern you mean, exactly what you want to do with it, and where it would appear. Permission requests take me longer to answer than a stitch question, because they get a real reply rather than a quick one. The contact page is honest about the timing.
If you find a copy somewhere
Send me the address. I will deal with it from there, and you will not be asked to argue with anybody on my behalf. A message like that is the main way I find out, since nothing on this site watches where its own words go.
The broader terms for the site live on the house rules page, and every pattern is on the patterns page.