title: Jekyll: Include a file from directory outside of _includes
body: <p>I have an directory called <code>/patterns</code> in my Jekyll site, whose structure generally looks generally like this:</p>
  
  <p><code>
  _includes
  _layouts
  _site
  /patterns
  index.html
  </code></p>
  
  <p>I need to keep the <code>/patterns</code> directory outside <code>_includes</code> for a number of reasons, but mostly because I need to pull the files in <code>/patterns</code> into an iframe to display in a pattern library).</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to include files from <code>/patterns</code> in my Jekyll pages, but using <code>{% include /patterns/file.html %} doesn't work as it points to the</code>_includes<code>folder. How would I go about including a file from a directory that isn't</code>_includes`?</p>