I Like Knitting & I Like Crochet

The official knitting site organizes material into previews, freebies, collections, and magazine issues. It describes more than 20 new knitting patterns per issue, while the crochet homepage separately advertises more than 25 crochet patterns per issue. Both describe six issues a year, with articles, tips, and a video tutorial alongside the patterns.

Crochet navigation includes beginner stitches, finishing techniques, corner-to-corner work, granny squares, and more advanced techniques. Those categories make the archive useful for looking up a technique, but they do not establish a single assessed beginner-to-advanced course sequence.

The magazines arrive six times a year through a club subscription. There is no class attendance requirement attached to that publishing rhythm.

The publication schedule tells you how often new issues arrive, not how quickly you should finish a project. A pattern may be revisited whenever the relevant materials and time are available. My Library is presented as the place to find accessible content and manage club memberships, so account access is part of the product rather than a fixed class timetable.

No academic accreditation, graded assessment, or professional knitting or crochet qualification is established for these memberships. Gold Club is a content-access tier, and membership is not certification. For an experienced maker seeking new projects, that distinction is unproblematic; for someone seeking a staged textile qualification, the magazine model answers a different need.

Bronze Club is free, with a selection of free patterns and samples from the premium collection. Gold Club expands access to the pattern library and magazines, but its price is not published on the homepage.

The homepage’s value language does not provide a usable current Gold Club quote. Confirm the amount, billing frequency, renewal terms, and cancellation arrangements on the actual membership offer. Also verify whether you are joining the knitting publication, the crochet publication, or a specifically documented bundle; the combined review title is not evidence that one payment covers both sites.

These memberships make most sense for knitters and crocheters who want fresh patterns and occasional technique guidance. They suit a continuing craft habit more readily than a first attempt to learn every step from scratch.

A maker who can follow a pattern independently is more likely to use the archive consistently than someone who needs continuous instruction from the first stitch. The free material can help assess formatting and explanatory detail. Buyers seeking instructor correction or a completion certificate should look beyond a magazine membership.

Regular project ideas. Free Bronze patterns offer a starting point, while Gold unlocks the broader library and magazines. With 20-plus new designs per issue and six issues each year, the appeal is a recurring supply of things to make.

The tiered structure creates a way to sample projects before paying for a broader archive. Gold Club’s combination of magazines, collections, and tutorials can make it easier to find another project after finishing one. New issues add variety, but their value depends on whether the patterns match your interests and available materials.

You choose the progression. The magazines do not provide a structured curriculum, and the homepage leaves the Gold Club price unclear. You need to assess both the project level and the paid offer yourself.

The absence of a fixed curriculum means the learner must select projects at an appropriate level. A large archive can contain useful explanations without supplying the sequencing or assessment of a school course. Price visibility is also limited, so the phrase all-access should be read alongside the exact subscription and cancellation terms.

I Like Knitting and I Like Crochet sell recurring access to project ideas, rather than yarn or a sequenced qualification. The More Courses category is unusually broad, so its other two listings illustrate different buying models rather than two interchangeable craft schools. Gold Club’s value depends on whether you will use the patterns regularly and on the subscription quote you receive.

HorseTrainingVideos.com is the first alternative in that category, but its subject is horse training. It sells individual courses by the year and all-course access by the month or year, while the knitting and crochet magazines publish six times annually and offer free Bronze access alongside paid Gold membership. Choose the horse-training service only if equestrian instruction is the actual goal; choose these magazines for knitting or crochet projects. Their shared subscription structure does not make one a substitute for the other’s content.

Neither homepage supplies a dependable paid-membership price for a direct budget comparison. For the magazines, the free Bronze patterns offer a concrete starting point without committing to Gold. The magazine–horse-video comparison is chiefly useful for distinguishing the two content-access models, not for recommending horse training to a knitter.

Knit Picks and Crochet.com are much closer to the same craft project, but they sell materials and individual patterns or kits. Yarn starts around $3.99 per skein in the available pricing, whereas Gold Club’s fee buys access to patterns and magazines, not the supplies required to make the designs. Choose the stores when you already have a project and need its materials; choose the magazine membership when finding a continuing supply of projects is the need.

The two purchases can complement each other, so a useful budget separates pattern access from yarn and tools. A free Bronze pattern plus a carefully chosen supply order may be enough for an occasional project, while an active maker may use the Gold archive more often. Our membership–supplies comparison explains why the cheapest skein and an unquoted subscription are not competing prices for the same service. Neither option supplies the assessed progression or instructor correction of a structured school course.

Browse Freebies or the Bronze material first, then use the relevant site’s Join or Gold Club route if the paid archive matches your needs. Inspect a pattern’s materials and instructions before committing to a membership. Use My Library and account-management information to understand how access is delivered.

Before paying, verify which publication and tiers are included, the full charge, recurring billing, and any refund conditions. Check whether previously accessed patterns remain available after cancellation rather than assuming permanent ownership of a subscription archive.

A magazine issue can inspire several projects, but buying access does not supply the yarn, needles, hooks, or other materials needed to make them.