A little about us at Pattern Princess, we love to crochet, cook family favorites, create DIY projects, and spend time with family and friends. We live in a rural community where our neighbors are like family. As we explore, learn, and develop new patterns, tips, and recipes, we will share them with you. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do and that you find this site inspirational, useful, and fun.
Who We Are
Pattern Princess is a leading source for modern crochet patterns and creative quilt designs, known for combining beautiful textures with approachable, easy-to-follow instructions. Our designs focus on timeless pieces you’ll love to make and use for years to come.
With detailed written patterns and step-by-step video tutorials, we’re here to support makers at every stage—helping you build skills, try new techniques, and create with confidence.
Our mission is to empower makers with beautifully designed patterns and clear instruction, so they can create with confidence and enjoy the process from start to finish.
Handmade from the Heart.
Hi Folks,.
I’m Vicky, the mom of the mother and daughter duo.
I’ve been crocheting, sewing, and cooking for over 50 years already. A few years back, I started this blog for sharing free crochet patterns, recipes, DIY crafts, and free quilting patterns.
We have lots of recipes, projects, and patterns to inspire you.
Hi, I’m Casey, the daughter of the mother and daughter duo on Pattern Princess.
I’ve has been crocheting for a few years now. My specialty is creating beginner-friendly crochet patterns.
My goal is to design patterns that are fun to make and easy to follow, with a focus on texture and simple stitches.
Mother and Daughter Team
Victoria Pietz and Casey Brown
Email: v@patternprincess.com
Our Parent Company: RecipeCraftCreations, LLC
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Our Story
Welcome to the country, where we are country people who enjoy living simply. Like many of you, we have worked full-time while raising families, farming, and finding time for the things we love. Through it all, treasured time together as a family has always been one of the things we value most.
Pattern Princess began as a way to share what we know,create things we enjoy, and connect with other people who love making things with their hands. Along the way, we have learned just as much from our readers and fellow crafters as we have shared. That back-and-forth is one of the things that makes this journey so special to us.
How Pattern Princess Began
Back in 2017, Pattern Princess was founded with a simple idea: share creative patterns and projects that people could actually enjoy making.
What started as a small website has grown into a collection of hundreds of free crochet and sewing patterns, along with downloadable patterns and other creative projects. We have had the privilege of seeing our designs made by thousands of crafters and families over the years.
Vicky and Casey are the creative team behind Pattern Princess. Together, they bring decades of crafting experience to every project. Crochet is at the heart of the website, but our love of creating doesn’t stop there. We also enjoy quilting, sewing, and finding new ways to turn a little yarn or fabric into something useful, beautiful, or simply fun to make.
Pattern Designs
Our patterns are designed with the everyday crafter in mind. We love simple stitches, interesting textures, classic designs, and projects that don’t require a complicated pattern to create something special. Some designs are quick and easy, while others give you a chance to settle in and enjoy the process.
With more than 50 years of combined crafting experience, creating has been part of our family for generations. Vicky learned to crochet when she was just 10 years old, and although there have been seasons of life when there simply wasn’t time to pick up a crochet hook, that love of creating never went away. Casey joined the crochet journey several years ago, and together we continue to learn, experiment, and create.
That experience has taught us that a good pattern doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful. We love simple stitches, interesting textures, classic designs, and projects that encourage you to make something uniquely your own.
More Than Just Patterns
Pattern Princess has grown far beyond what we imagined when we first started. We have authored multiple Etsy bestsellers, sold thousands of patterns, and built a wonderful community of people who come back to create with us again and again.
But the numbers are not what mean the most to us.
What we treasure are the messages from someone who finally finished a blanket, the photo of a project made as a gift, the crafter who learned a new stitch, or the person who tells us that one of our patterns gave them the confidence to try something new.
That is why we continue to create.
We hope Pattern Princess inspires you to pick up your hook, needle, or sewing machine and make something of your own. Take one of our patterns and make it your own. Change the colors, try a different yarn, adjust the size, or use an idea as a starting point for something completely new.
After all, creating is not just about following a pattern. It is about enjoying the process and making something that is uniquely yours.
Creating doesn’t stop at yarn and fabric.
Our love of making things extends into the kitchen, too. With years of experience cooking for family, friends, and working in restaurants, food has always been another important part of our lives. Pattern Princess includes hundreds of recipes, from family favorites to simple everyday dishes.
While crochet remains at the heart of our website, we’re happy to share the recipes and kitchen knowledge that have become part of our family’s story, too.
So, welcome to our little corner of the country. We are happy you’re here, and we hope you’ll stay awhile.
Vicky & Casey
Learning to Crochet
My love of crochet started with my mom.
When my mom was growing up, her grandmother took the time to teach her both knitting and crochet. Crochet was the skill that stayed with her, and over the years it became something she could always come back to.
When my mom and dad were first married, money was tight. She often tells me stories about those early years and how affordable yarn was compared with buying a finished gift. She could take a few skeins of yarn and make something special for a friend or family member. A handmade blanket was a gift people treasured because someone had taken the time to make it just for them.
That simple idea of making something with your own hands has stayed with our family.
Learning to Sew
My mom learned to sew in middle school when she took a semester of cooking and a semester of sewing. She quickly fell in love with sewing and continued building her skills by making simple tops and small projects.
Years later, she would become my sewing teacher.
A Very Early Start in the Restaurant Business
My mom started working in a restaurant when she was just thirteen years old. She was hired to wash dishes at a truck stop restaurant, but it wasn’t long before she was helping with food preparation.
Then one day, the cook was too drunk to continue cooking, and my mom found herself in the kitchen.
She had to figure it out—and she did.
She quickly learned how to prepare breakfast and lunch in a busy truck stop restaurant. When school started again in the fall, she found a job at a supper club so she could continue working while going to school. There, she learned even more about cooking and preparing food, this time in a restaurant where the meals were a little more upscale.
She was doing all of this while going to school and helping her family on the farm.
Looking back, those early experiences taught her something that has followed her throughout her life: learn what you need to learn, work hard, and don’t be afraid to figure things out.
Farm Life and Family
I grew up on a dairy farm, and some of my favorite childhood memories are from those years.
From a young age, I helped with farm chores and took care of the animals. My mom helped with the morning and evening milking, while also taking care of the cooking and cleaning, working, and going to school. That meant I spent a lot of time helping my dad with the farm.
I loved working with the animals, helping with field work, and learning how to fix equipment. One of my favorite things was going on road trips with my dad to pick up parts for the farm.
Growing up that way taught me to appreciate hard work, family, and learning how to do things for yourself.
Getting Married and Starting a New Chapter
When my mom and dad married, they lived on the farm with my grandparents and continued working together as a family.
My mom also found a job at a local restaurant and wedding venue that was known for its broasted chicken dinners. There is an extra-special connection to that restaurant because it is also where my mom and dad had their wedding reception years earlier.
After a few years, my mom realized that if she wanted a better-paying job to help support the family, she needed more education. So, she added college to everything else she was already doing.
And that became a pattern throughout her life.
A Lifetime of Learning
Over the years, my mom has worked in a wide variety of jobs and industries. She has worked in dairy farming, restaurants, accounting, and management at an automotive repair dealership. She eventually started her own bookkeeping business and continued working while going to school.
She has always seemed to have more than one thing going at a time.
She eventually earned her doctorate in education and worked as a dean at our local technical college. And, somewhere along the way, she also started a successful blog.
It probably shouldn’t surprise anyone that she decided she had time to learn another craft, too.
Overcoming Challenges
Of course, life isn’t always easy, and our family has had its share of challenges.
When I was a baby, my parents and I were involved in a car and train accident on a country road where it was difficult to see or hear an approaching train. We all survived, but my mom suffered the most serious injuries and had a long recovery.
She has also faced other major health challenges, including cancer.
What I remember most, though, is not simply the difficult things that happened. It is watching my mom keep moving forward.
She worked full-time, often worked somewhere part-time, and went to school part-time. As a child, I watched her face one obstacle after another and somehow find a way through it.
That experience shaped me.
It taught me that life doesn’t always go according to plan, but you can keep going, learn from what happens, and make the best of whatever is placed in front of you.
Sometimes you really do have to make lemonade from the lemons life gives you.
Going to College Together
Education has always been important in our family, and one of my favorite college memories involves my dad.
When I was attending our local technical college working toward my associate degrees, my dad decided to enroll in the crop production program.
He was close to sixty years old.
So, for a while, my dad and I went to college together.
We would often ride to class together when our schedules lined up, and it was such a fun time in our lives. Those are memories our whole family treasures.
My dad went on to earn his degree, too.
He didn’t continue with me when I went on to earn my bachelor’s degree, but I know he was proud of me for continuing my education.
Learning to Cook
Growing up on a farm, I spent much more time outdoors than I did in the kitchen. I knew the basics of cooking, but I never really learned how to cook the way my mom did.
And honestly, I didn’t have much reason to.
Dinnertime at our house was a little like going out to eat at a restaurant. My mom is a very good cook, and there was always something delicious waiting at home.
We lived out in the country, so ordering takeout wasn’t usually an option. Every now and then, Mom would stop on her way home and bring dinner with her, but most of the time, she cooked.
Looking back, I realize just how much I took that for granted.
The Casserole Recipe Story
That changed a little when I was older.
One day, we were at a potluck and I watched several ladies swapping casserole recipes from memory. They were rattling off ingredients and instructions, and my mom was busy trying to write everything down.
She didn’t have many casserole recipes of her own.
That day, we realized something funny: I had grown up eating what was essentially restaurant-style food at home, so I never had to learn many of those simple, everyday casserole recipes.
Now, Mom is on a mission to learn some of them, too.
Cooking With My Mom
Now that I am married, I am trying to improve my own cooking skills, and I love spending time in the kitchen with my mom.
Since Mom already had a blog, we decided to start another one together, Wholesome Farmhouse Recipes.
I am learning how to make some of our favorite recipes, trying new recipes, and picking up the tips and tricks that Mom has learned throughout her years of cooking.
A blog is also a wonderful way to pass recipes down through generations.
Both of my grandmothers had specialties they made that were absolutely delicious, and we want to preserve those family recipes while continuing to create new favorites of our own.
That love of cooking is also part of the story behind Pattern Princess. Although crochet is at the heart of this website, we have hundreds of recipes here, too, along with the sewing, quilting, and other creative projects our family enjoys.
How I Learned to Sew
My mom was also my sewing teacher.
When I was growing up and participating in 4-H, she taught me how to sew. I hope to be as skilled as she is someday, but I did have a few clothing projects that won first-place ribbons.
I even got to model some of my creations at the state fair.
That was quite an experience!
Those early 4-H projects taught me that making something with your own hands can be both useful and rewarding. They also gave me confidence to keep learning new skills.
Learning to Crochet
Compared with my mom, I am still a fairly new crocheter.
It takes time and practice to learn, but I have really enjoyed the process. One of my favorite parts is collaborating with my mom on crochet projects—choosing colors, talking about stitch patterns, and figuring out how to turn an idea into something we both love.
I may have learned crochet much later in life, but it has given us another creative hobby to share.
A Lifetime of Learning
Over the years, my mom has worked in a wide variety of jobs and industries. She has worked in dairy farming, restaurants, accounting, and management at an automotive repair dealership. She eventually started her own bookkeeping business and continued working while going to school.
She has always seemed to have more than one thing going at a time.
She eventually earned her doctorate in education and became a dean at our local technical college. After spending many years working in education, she retired from her full-time career a little over four years ago.
But retirement didn’t exactly mean slowing down.
These days, she stays busy working for herself, crafting, creating, and helping run our four websites. She also spends plenty of time doing something even more important—babysitting Casey’s son.
So, while she may have retired from her career, she certainly hasn’t retired from working, learning, or creating.
And honestly, that probably isn’t surprising to anyone who knows her.
And That Brings Us to Pattern Princess
All of these experiences—crochet, sewing, quilting, cooking, farming, working, raising families, learning, and simply figuring things out as we go—have become part of Pattern Princess.
Pattern Princess began in 2017 as a place to share our creative projects. Since then, it has grown into hundreds of freepatterns and projects, along with downloadable patterns, recipes, and other things we enjoy making and sharing.
We’ve had the wonderful opportunity to have our patterns become Etsy bestsellers and have sold thousands of patterns over the years. But what means the most to us is knowing that something we created has become part of someone else’s life—a blanket made for a grandchild, a hat made as a gift, a sewing project completed for the first time, or a recipe that becomes a family favorite.
With more than 50 years of combined crafting experience between us, we are still learning, still experimenting, and still making things.
And we hope you’ll join us.
Take one of our patterns and change the colors. Try a different yarn. Put your own spin on a design. Learn a new stitch. Make a recipe your own.
Because that’s what we’ve always believed about creating: you don’t have to make it exactly like someone else did. The best part is making it your own.
We hope you’ll find something here that inspires you to create, learn, and enjoy the process.
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