A lovely pattern that is good for beginners and would make a lovely present too
Once upon a time I taught crochet classes at my local Jo-Ann Fabrics store. I think the only reason they gave me the job was because my compulsive yarn hoarding was quite likely paying off the manager’s vacation home in Mexico and/or putting his kids through private boarding school. I had no experience teaching anything—let alone crochet—but I did have marketing experience, and I was pretty good at turning unsuspecting shoppers into unsuspecting hookers-in-training.
The first thing I learned about teaching structured crochet classes was that no one really wanted to make the projects they signed up for. And when it came to the structured crochet classes at Jo-Ann’s, I couldn’t really blame them. After all, who really wants to make a wearable crochet flower necklace or a starfish-shaped dish cloth? The “Crochet 101” course was problematic in a similar way, but for the opposite reason. There was no advertised project. The entire three-hour class secretly consisted of nothing but making practice swatches. Naturally, everyone showed up with pattern…
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