Take the opportunity to learn a new trade from professionals in the Crochet industry...!
Are you wondering if it's inappropriate to call it an industry when crochet is a handmade craft...? Actually, I did some digging and found out that the Global Crochet Dress Market was estimated to be worth USD 1.68 Billion in 2022 and is projected to reach a value of USD 2.2 Billion by 2030... So, it is as good an industry as any! And you can be part of it for free!
Click the red links to access the classes. These lessons will be free until April 10, 2024. If you want to access them after this date, you can sign up for each teacher’s full course and dive into their topics in detail.
1. Free Lesson: Crochet Pattern Design
Meet Molla Mills (@molla_mills) and find your own style in the process!
Molla is a Finnish crochet pattern designer and an author... Of course, there's not much else to do in Finland... Aside from beer floating (drinking beer on an inflatable over ice cold water...) and participating in the World Wife Carrying Championship, for which you might need to be drunk too to even considering it...
Back to Mills: Her books have inspired people all over the world to make more crafts. "Crafting has so many health benefits and I want to share everything I know about it with you."...Thank you Molla! You are right. But don't drink too much beer whilst crafting, though... Then even crochet could end up worsening your health!
In this free lesson Molla will help you choose threads, colors and tools so that you can form your own informed opinions and develop your own style. Discover why Molla tends to prefer cotton threads for crocheting!
2. Free Lesson: Amigurumis for Beginners
Amigurumis are basically crochet plushies... but they can be much more! And Joanna Kienmeyer (@jojilie) can show us how:
Jo is a special needs teacher living in the heart of Austria. When Keinmeyer isn't teaching, she is crocheting. And her greatest passion is amigurumi! "I love taking a crochet hook in one hand and some yarn in the other and creating cute characters, whether they are dolls or animals. I still find it so exciting when each creation gets its own little personality."... Don't worry Amigurumis are not voodoo dolls... (even if they sound eerily similar...)!
In this free lesson, Joanna Kienmeyer will teach you how to read crochet guidelines to create patterns. If you've seen the abbreviations used for crocheting before you might agree, that they look daunting at first glance... Maybe even at second glance, too! Thankfully Joanna (or Jo like her friends call her... No, I don't know her... Please, don't tell her!) can help us decipher this secret coding to finally knit the cute amigurumi that lies beneath!
And when you are finished remember not to give the doll your friend's name... It's a bit creepy that's all!
3. Free Lesson: Make Your Own Sweater
Katie Jones (@katiejonesknit) isn't yet a granny but she sure knows how to knit a granny sweater...! I couldn't help myself... As a blog writer, I sometimes luck the discipline not to take the easy way out! And yes, "sometimes" is an understatement...
Katie is a bright and bold knitwear designer who loves color and who teams playful aesthetics with a love for craft and community! She launched her self named brand in 2014 (Oh so, do people address her as Katie Jones®, then?) and have since won Selfridges Bright New Things Award in 2016 and been stocked in luxury stores worldwide... Wait, was Katie® herself stocked in a store? or was that just, her company persona? Oh, of course it was her knitted creations! Sorry, her® knitted creations!
In this free lesson, Katie Jones® addresses the topic: Basic Granny Square... And I'm only repeating verbatim those words, I wouldn't dare call a granny "basic" myself!
4. Free Lesson: Basic Stitches
Alicia Recio Rodríguez (@alimaravillas) claims that grandmothers freak out over her knitting techniques! Can we leave grandmothers alone, once and for all...? I'm sorry, that might be a bad idea, actually!
Alicia is an Insatiable crocheter and a person who believes in lifelong learning and constructivism (not related to the philosophy of science theory...!). Her desire to learn new techniques and pedagogies is specially useful since she is also a teacher, and signing up to her Domestika course, she will also be your teacher. Lucky you!
In this video lesson, Alicia Recio Rodríguez introduces some basic stitching techniques that will help you get started with your crocheted jacket or stockings or computer sheath, or book shelf sheath...! Partner sheath...? Cover it all with your knitted patterns! And if they resist you can also make crochet traps... No one will be able to scape your inventive patterns!
5. Free Lesson: Flying Birds
Alelí Deco Crochet (@alelidecocrochet) is a designer and crochet teacher. Since she was little Alelí spent her time doing crafts; painting with watercolors, recycling furniture, embroidering and knitting. Alelí was always very involved in the world of DIY... Even before the term became trendy... The real deal!
Suffice it to say, Alelí is a huge fan of vintage styles, flowers and pastel colors. Following these "aesthetic pillars" our teacher is going to guide us in our crochet journey today with her "fantasy inspired stitches" that fuse romanticism and vintage styles together. It will drive you crazy! Yes, you will never regain your consciousness... You will be forever trapped inside a dusty Polaroid! But you'll be looking good, which is what counts...
Her free lesson on knitted flying birds is awaiting you! What are you waiting for? Fly...!
Oh, and I should mention that you need to sign up to watch the free lessons and if you are registered already, you have to log in (was this self-evident?)... And if you are logged in you need to have a computer with internet access... Are my reminders condescending enough, yet? Should I stop? Okey...
If you'd like more informative lessons and less condescending reminders here are some Domestika picks for you:
- Join our Courses on Crochet
- Crochet popcorn stitches An Article by Molla Mills
- Free crochet fish pattern
