5 Free Dupes of Popular Knitting Patterns - PetiteKnit, Ozetta, Stephen West, KFO.

Honestly at this point I have such a gigantic library of knitting patterns in my head that I'm not even looking for them. I just know. Hey guys! Welcome or welcome back. I'm Hatice and today I have five more free pattern dupes for popular patterns for you. I'm really excited for today's video because this was not planned. Honestly I was thinking about knitting the Lakes Tee by Ozetta and as always I just I was just looking around to see whether I could find something similar and I found the exact same thing. This pattern I chose is the Lakes Tee by Ozetta. Like I mentioned I was already interested in knitting this so obviously I started looking around for like a free alternative and I found the exact dupe. I don't understand how this happens but like I am shocked every single time I find a dupe. The Lakes Tee by Ozetta is knitted top down in a saddle shoulder construction. It is this boxy oversized with sleeves that are coming up to your elbows type of a summer shirt which looks very like comfortable. It's overall a very nice like basic and the dupe I found which I will put here. I don't want to bother pronouncing its name. This also is a t-shirt that is a saddle shoulder and it is knitted top down and it has positive ease. If you compare them you're gonna see that Lakes Tee has a 26 stitch gauge and the dupe has a 26 stitch gauge. And then they are both saddle shoulder constructions, they are both knitted top down, they are both unisex, they both have short rows. From what I can tell the only difference they have is that the Lakes Tee has one by one rib collar and hem and whatever and the dupe has folded over hem and collar and stuff like that. But that is the only difference I could find and besides that they are exactly the same. The construction, the gauge, the look, the like relaxed fit is just all the same. What surprised me with this pattern was generally what I see in my free pattern searches is that when I find a dupe, let's say the dupe was published in a yarn company, it is usually after the original pattern is published. So let's say Ozetta published this pattern and then a year later the dupe comes up somewhere. I was surprised to find out that this dupe was published in 2022 and the Lakes Tee was published in 2023. So that was surprising. There's absolutely nothing more I can say about them. They're exactly the same. The next pattern on my list is the Classic Rib by Perna Larsson. I think she's the designer for Knitting for Olive and it is this mock neck 2x2 rib super basic raglan top that is like super basic, super easy to style. I think everyone should have something like this in their wardrobe. This has been in my to knit list for a while now because because of just how versatile it is. It is a mock neck 2x2 rib negative ease top which you will probably knit in wool. So for winter it would be perfect. So this has been on my list and I wasn't looking for a dupe of this because although I've been wanting to knit it, it wasn't like my immediate plan. So while I was just browsing through free patterns as I do every single night before bed, I came across Copper Crest by Nerngaruk. Look me in the eye and tell me these are not the same thing. The picture is in front of me and they are exactly the same pattern. When I saw the Copper Crest, I had no doubt in my mind this was an exact dupe. But still, for the sake of the video, I took some notes comparing the two. Not that the slight differences they have mean anything because they're exactly the same. But for the sake of the video, I compared the information of the both. Copper Crest is free by the way. Classic rib has 23 stitches 29 rows in 2x2 rib and Copper Crest has 21 stitches 26 rows in 2x2 rib. So just a tiny tiny tiny difference of gauge. Classic rib is knitted with 3.5 and 4 millimeter needles and the Copper Crest is knitted with just 4 millimeter needles. I'm assuming you change your needle size with the neckline and the like hem in classic rib but the Copper Crest doesn't ask you to do it but you can just do it yourself. They both have a mock neck, they're both knitted top down, in the round and they are both raglan constructions. Honestly, I have nothing more I can say about these patterns. The pictures speak for themselves. The third pattern on my list is the CPH sweater. It is this top down corrugated brioche rib circular yoke oversized puffy comfy looking sweater that the last time I checked had 114 projects on Ravelry and I've been seeing a lot of people talking about it and knitting it and the moment I saw this sweater I was I I was like I know there is a free sweater that looks like this and it wasn't like assumptions. I knew I saw a pattern similar to this many years ago so I just went through my archive and I found the circular brioche sweater by Philkatia. I don't think Philkatia is a person, I think they are a yarn store and these do have some differences but if you are looking to knit something like a CPH sweater and I don't know you're on a budget you don't want to buy one more pattern since you already have 800 patterns in your stash I think this would be a really good alternative because overall they pretty much look the same. I did write down the differences. So the CPH sweater is knitted with worsted weight yarn and has a gauge of 14 stitches 20 rows but the dupe is knitted with sport weight yarn and has a gauge of 21 stitches 48 rows. If I wanted a sweater that looks like the CPH sweater I think I would match my gauge to CPH sweater and do some math and size down on the circular brioche sweater. Do whatever you want with that information but that's my thought process other than that the CPH sweater is knitted top down and the dupe is knitted bottom up. They are both circular yokes, they are both corrugated brioche, they both have a ton of positive E's to be honest to me they look exactly the same. One difference I can tell from the pattern pictures is the CPH sweater doesn't have like distinctly different collar sleeve ribbing or body ribbing the pattern just continues throughout and the dupe used a different color when knitting the collar I would just keep knitting it corrugated rib. So I think they look almost identical obviously you can tell the collar is a different color and I think you can clearly tell the dupe is knitted with a thinner yarn but other than that if you wanted the CPH sweater without spending money on the pattern I think this is a very good alternative. The fourth pattern on my list is the Friday Tee by Petite Knits. I think everyone knows about this pattern it's been out for a couple years now. I like it a lot I think it has this like really interesting look but it is not that like complicated of a pattern at all. I think the stripes combined with the broken rib really makes this pattern feel like it is more than it is. I mean it is a very beautiful pattern but it looks so elevated that you kind of forget it is a raglan t-shirt and I really like it. I've been wanting to knit it as well and throughout the years I've been looking everywhere for a pattern at least at least something that I can modify to look like the Friday Tee and I haven't been able to come across it until now. So the dupe I found is this one I don't want to pronounce it and upon first glance obviously they do not look the same. They do look similar but they don't look the same so I made a list. So the Friday Tee has 28 stitches 44 rows in broken rib stitch and the dupe has 25 stitches 40 rows in broken rib with eyelet stripes. The dupe uses broken rib stitch just like the Friday Tee but the dupe also has eyelet rows and I'm assuming it is the reason why the gauge is 25 stitches instead of 28 like the Friday Tee because the eyelets add some more like I don't know the word. They are both knitted with 2.5 and 3 millimeter needles which further proved to me that the dupe has a different gauge simply because of the eyelets. They're both raglans, they're both knitted top down. The Friday Tee has 6 to 9 centimeters of positive ease but the dupe although they did not specify how much positive ease the pattern has I looked I've read through the pattern and they they have like no ease so if you have a 90 centimeter bust they suggest you to knit the garment with the 90 centimeter bust so this has no ease in the pattern. The Friday Tee has a 1x1 rib collar folded down and the dupe has 1x1 twisted rib which you can just knit normal and fold over but other than that what I can tell is the Friday Tee has quite a large raglan line so I think it is like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 I don't know it's it's like let me count again 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 I'm counting 13 in the pattern pictures I think it is 13 stitch raglans which is quite big and the dupe doesn't have anything like that would I change it I don't think I would so one thing I would do differently while knitting Friday Tee by modifying the free dupe would be to cast on less stitches for my collar because in the pictures of the dupe the collar looks quite low and it's like quite stretched out but the Friday Tee is like quite close to the neck so if you feel like doing a little bit of math I think I would do these raglans the same way as Friday Tee but if you don't want to do math I think I would just knit the dupe starting with less stitches and I would definitely omit the eyelets and I would use the striping sequence in the Friday Tee instead of the dupes because obviously I feel like if they use the same sequence I think petite knit would sue them so they have to make tiny differences I think nobody sue me I'm just saying what I think is going on these are my opinions anyways to me they check enough boxes for me to consider them an exact dupe I think I'm gonna knit it if you have the Friday Tee pattern could you please check the dupe and maybe inform us all about how similar they exactly are I'm sure me and many people would appreciate it thank you the last pattern I chose is a shawl and I'm not much of a shawl knitter actually but I really like shawls and I would love to be a shawl knitter it's just that knitting a shawl takes a very long time which I would rather spend knitting a garment but I came across this Vertex Unite shawl by Stephen West while watching Stitch Witch podcast I'm gonna put her name somewhere or in the description box she has like really nice podcasts and she has been in this like stash busting journey I think and I saw that she knit one of these when I saw it I never felt an urge so strong to knit a pattern let alone a shawl and I immediately went to the revelry page of this shawl and I almost bought this and I stopped myself and I was like let me look at some shawls it took me five minutes to come up with this dupe by Audrey Borrego she is a designer who made all her patterns free I think like very recently and that is exactly when she blew up I started seeing her designing for a lot of like companies and I started hearing people talk about her so it's so interesting to me that all those years she was a designer I never even heard of her now I think about her all the time I always check her page enough of the rambling I am not claiming that these are exactly the same but what I want to say is Vertex Unite shawl has a 24 stitch 48 rows in garter stitch and the dupe has 23 stitches 36 rows in garter stitch so they have almost exactly the same stitch gauge the Vertex Unite shawl is knitted with 3.5 millimeter needles and the dupe is knitted with 3.75 and honestly I don't know how big of a difference 0.25 millimeter makes they're both modular knitting they're both sideways they are both this like geometric shape and you can clearly tell the Vertex Unite shawl is like a little bit like different type of geometrical shapes while the dupe is a lot simpler but the moment I saw the dupe I was like satisfied I was happy to knit the dupe to satisfy my need of having a Vertex Unite shawl and I'm pretty sure you can do some modifications to make it look even more like the Vertex Unite shawl but to me it's unnecessary it looks similar enough that I don't even want to do that they're both gorgeous they both have like garter stitch sections that are like stripe so overall I think they are similar enough that I would consider them a dupe of each other those were all the patterns I chose and found a dupe for I hope you like them as much as I did if you have any suggestions or any pattern you want to knit that you are searching a dupe for let me know in the comments I really like responding to your comments and looking for free alternatives for the patterns you want to knit thank you so much for watching me I hope to see you guys next time bye