I haven’t seen a sheet of graph paper since high school math class – and until today was quite happy to let that decade-long (gulp) record keep on keepin’ on.

But with all this free time, I decided to make a little pattern for an upcoming project and I needed a sheet to help sketch it out. I didn’t want to buy an entire pad, so I turned to the friendly Internetz to see if it could help me locate just a single sheet

Lo and behold, I found several free, downloadable graph papers at the curiously-named Incompetech Creative Industries. They have various kinds of types you can download, which are handy for one-off knitting and stitching projects. I chose the square pattern because the grid is nice and big, always handy when you’re trying to map something out for the first time. I’m sure they’re handy for math equations, too, but hopefully I’ll never know for sure.

If you wind up creating a pattern using these templates, we’d love to see it! I’ll show my finished one in a future post – so keep checking back.