About Our Patterns

Gourmet Crochet

Indulge your taste for delicious crochet!

About Our Patterns

Gourmet Crochet patterns are available in printed form, and some are available in e-pattern form.

Printed Patterns

Our professionally printed patterns are, for the most part, 5 1/2” x 8 1/2” digest-size booklets with color covers and black and white inside pages. When we first began, we had our patterns printed in the standard 8 1/2” x 11” pattern leaflet format.

Along the way, we changed our minds on the idea of the large size being the ultimate wonderful *way*, and started doing all new patterns, and all reprints, in the smaller format. The smaller ones tuck easily into a crochet bag, and seem to weather being hauled around better than the larger size patterns.

E-patterns

Our e-patterns are delivered to you immediately after your PayPal payment is processed. We use Ravelry for e-pattern delivery.

At this time we have very few patterns in digital delivery format, but we do plan to add more in the future.

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Shipping is currently free worldwide on retail orders. Just a little thank-you gift from our family to yours during these difficult economic times.

How to Order

If you are ordering printed patterns, you can order as many as you like at one time with the built-in PayPal shopping cart.

If you are ordering e-patterns, you will need to order and pay for each one separately. Cumbersome, I know, but there shouldn’t be anything to fill out if you already have a PayPal account, so really it’s just some extra clicks. I apologize for the inconvenience. Trust me though, it’s the best way. There are some other ways I could set this up but there are many opportunities for snarls, and we have enough of those in life, don’t you agree?

Ordering Printed Patterns

If you want to buy one or more printed patterns, just use the “add to cart” button on the pattern’s individual page. The PayPal system will guide you through checking out and providing your shipping information.

Please take a moment to check that your default shipping address is current. If you would like to have your items shipped to another address, just add this address to PayPal and specify it for delivery.

Let us know if your order is for a secret pal and we can remove all traces of your identity from the packing slip :) and will add a little note if you wish.

International Orders

Most of our European customers are receiving their orders within one to two weeks. Our South American customers report two to three week delivery times. We ship everything through the US Post office, air mail letter post.

Ordering E-Patterns

Here is how this works. Click on the button indicated for an e-pattern. You will be directed through the PayPal payment process.

Immediately thereafter, you will receive and e-mail containing a LINK and instructions for downloading the pattern. You will need the latest version of Adobe Reader, available as a free download, to view the pattern.

Please note that this e-mail goes to the e-mail address you have associated with PayPal. If you don’t get the e-mail, check your Spam filters and then go into PayPal and check your e-mail address there.

Once in a while I have a customer who never gets the email with the pattern link because it’s going to an old or seldom-used email address. We eventually get it sorted out, but honestly any time you have to get a human involved (me) it can take longer, especially if I’m AWOL from the computer for hours or even a couple of days.

The most important thing to do if you don’t get your email with the pattern link is to e-mail me, preferably from the e-mail address where you want to receive your pattern. I’ll authorize another link e-mail for you. Be sure and include your name.

As with any automated process, 99 out of 100 e-pattern transactions go as smooth as silk, with pattern delivered and ready for crocheting within minutes of purchase. But if yours is one of the ones that goes wonky in some way and you can’t solve the problem yourself with the email address/Spam filter check, just know that I will stay with you til we get it worked out. Just be sure to e-mail me if there is any kind of problem.

For our international customers, most Gourmet Crochet patterns are also available here:

In Australia www.crochetaustralia.com.au

In Australia www.nanasnook.com.au/

In Canada www.karpstyles.com

In the UK www.kcgtrading.com