What Spiilled Is
Spiilled is a lifestyle blog for the practical, everyday side of making a home: what you cook, what you make with your hands, and how you live in the space you have. We publish recipes, free crochet patterns, decorating ideas and gardening guides — the kind of thing you actually open on your phone with flour on your hands or a hook already in the other one.
We are not a magazine writing about trends from a distance. Every recipe here is written as a set of instructions someone can follow in a normal kitchen, and every pattern is written to be worked, not admired. If a post cannot be used, it does not belong on Spiilled.
What We Cover
Four areas make up almost everything we publish:
- Food — desserts and baking, chicken dinners, breakfast, sides and soups, and pasta and comfort food. This is the largest section of the site, with more than 150 recipes.
- DIY & Crafts — free crochet patterns above all: garments, bags, blankets, amigurumi and accessories, written with yarn weights, hook sizes and multiple sizing options.
- Home Decor — small-space and renter-friendly decorating, seasonal styling, storage that works in real rooms, and room-by-room ideas for apartments that never feel quite big enough.
- Gardening — forgiving plants, houseplants that survive real life, and small-space growing for balconies, patios and windowsills.
Alongside those, we publish occasional pieces on style and beauty, wellness, parties and seasonal events, travel and personal stories.
Our Editorial Approach
- Every recipe is complete. Exact measurements, oven temperatures, timings and yields — no vague “bake until done”.
- Every pattern is workable. Yarn weight, hook size, gauge where it matters, finished measurements, and sizes beyond a single default.
- Every article has a named author. Nothing on Spiilled is published anonymously. Each writer covers a defined area and their name is on the work.
- We correct what we get wrong. If a reader tells us a recipe or pattern does not work as written, we check it and update the post.
Who Writes Spiilled
Martha Reyes — Food
Martha writes the food side of Spiilled and is the author of more than 150 recipes on the site: desserts and baking, chicken dinners, breakfast, and sides and soups. She writes for home cooks using ordinary equipment and supermarket ingredients, with a particular soft spot for cozy, seasonal comfort food.
Elodie Harper — Crochet, Crafts & Garden
Elodie covers crochet, craft projects and gardening, with over 60 free patterns and guides published here. Her patterns are written for beginners and confident hobbyists alike, and her gardening coverage focuses on low-maintenance plants and small-space growing.
Clara Morgan — Home Decor
Clara writes about home decor, small-space living and seasonal styling. Most of her work is aimed at renters and small-apartment dwellers: studio layouts, tiny kitchens, entryways with no room to spare, and decor that goes up without a single nail hole.
Grace Wilson — Style & Beauty
Grace covers style and beauty, focusing on nail art and seasonal manicure trends, broken down into what you actually need to recreate a look at home.
Jordan Ellis — Editor, Relationships & Personal Stories
Jordan edits Spiilled and writes the site’s relationships and personal-story coverage — the messier parts of being human: family conflict, marriage, friendship and the decisions people second-guess afterwards.
Contact
Corrections, questions, or something you would like us to cover: get in touch or email hello@spiilled.com. We read everything, and we would rather hear that a recipe needs fixing than have it sit here broken.