What this page covers: Each pattern is worked on the glider and counted round by round before it goes up, but yarn and hands differ. If a round is wrong, write, and it gets fixed.
Last rewritten 2026-08-24
Checked on a glider, not in a laboratory
Everything on StitchMood is written by somebody who makes the thing first. Marlene works each pattern through to the end, says the count out loud at the end of every round, and compares the piece in her lap with the photograph before the pattern is written up. Patterns are still written by a person, and a person misses things. Treat every count and every measurement as a faithful record of one sample, not as a number you can hold a ruler to.
Gauge is the whole story
Two people can follow one pattern with one hook and finish with squares half an inch apart. Fibre, yarn weight, how you hold the working yarn, whether the cat has been on your lap — all of it moves the number. A finished size on the porch is the size that sample came out at, in the yarn the materials list names. If yours runs small, go up a hook size; large, go down one. Neither means anybody did anything wrong.
When a round will not come out
Write to hello@stitchmood.com with the pattern, the round number and what you counted. A wrong count is worth fixing the same week, and it gets fixed quietly. Nobody is made to feel foolish for asking; nine times in ten the pattern was unclear, not the maker.
This is advice about yarn and nothing else
Nothing on the porch is medical, legal, financial or safety advice. If you are making something for a baby, a small child or anybody with allergies or limited movement, use your own judgement about fibres, stuffing, small parts and anything sewn or glued on. Crochet is repetitive work and can be hard on hands and wrists; rest them, and stop when they say stop.
Where a pattern came from
Some patterns here are adapted from freely shared or public-domain sources, and where a source wants crediting it is credited on the page. If you believe something on StitchMood is yours and should not be, write to hello@stitchmood.com with the page address and a way to recognise the work. It will be credited or taken down as you prefer, promptly, and without an argument first.
Where responsibility ends
You use this site, and make what you make from it, at your own discretion. As far as the law allows, StitchMood is not liable for any loss, cost, frogged yarn or lopsided square that follows from using a pattern here. In plain words: make with confidence; the hook is in your hand.
The other house rules
- Privacy — the one list the porch keeps, and how to be taken off it
- What the site remembers — the notes it leaves in your own browser
- House rules — what you may do with a pattern you found here
- Affiliate disclosure — how the porch might one day pay for its yarn
Something here unclear? Write to Marlene. She reads it herself.