Chord Grove is a free library of real, public-domain vintage garment knitting patterns — sweaters, cardigans, pullovers, vests, and tops. Every pattern here was originally published in a knitting-yarn manufacturer's pattern leaflet or booklet decades ago, has passed into the public domain, and has been made freely available by freevintageknitting.com, which states on its own site: “All of the free knitting patterns that appear on this website have passed into the public domain… you are free to do whatever you would like to do with them! Copy them, share them, make finished items from them and sell them.”
We selected 397 garment patterns from that source — the ones whose original category or title clearly identified them as a sweater, cardigan, pullover, vest, or top — and reproduce each one verbatim, including its original sizing, materials, and instructions exactly as originally published. We do not modernize, rewrite, or "improve" the instructions, and we do not invent a designer, gauge, needle size, or construction method where the original pattern leaflet did not clearly state one.
Every pattern page links back to its exact source page on freevintageknitting.com, and credits the original pattern book or leaflet by name where the source states one. See our methodology page for the full selection and sourcing process, including what fields we show and what we deliberately withhold.
If you notice an error, or believe a pattern shouldn't be here, please get in touch at hello@chordgrove.com.
What we mean by "free"
Every pattern listed here has passed into the public domain per the source site's own explicit statement (quoted above). We do not host pattern PDFs or files of our own — each pattern page reproduces the original text and links to the exact freevintageknitting.com page it came from.
What we don't show
We deliberately withhold a "designer" name, needle size, gauge, skill level, and construction-method tag as separate structured fields, because the source material does not provide these consistently as clean, verifiable data — they appear, if at all, only as free text inside the original instructions, in whatever units and phrasing the original leaflet used. Showing them as a tidy field would mean guessing or inventing structure the source doesn't actually have. See methodology for the full list.