I do want all of these to be standalone pages, not posts. I want each parent to have photos of the patterns with links to the page the pattern is on, and each pattern might belong to more than one parent page category. I’ll try explaining again…
So I have three hats right now. All of them are slouchy. I have one pair of mitts. So the parent pages I want are ‘Slouchy Hats’, ‘Mitts’, ‘DK Weight Yarn’, and ‘Sockweight Yarn’. All of the hats belong in Slouchy Hats, two of them plus the mitts also belong in Sockweight Yarn, and one of the hats belongs in DK Weight Yarn. I want the parent pages to have a gallery of photos that link to the patterns they contain. I don’t want to make the parent pages into posts or ‘empty’ custom links or anything like that.
Does that make more sense?