Yey! Big news, my second video course is already available on Udemy! The course is 40$, but here is a discount coupon for you!

We will learn the following tricky items:

• Puff Flower
• Hibiscus Flower
• Irish Lace Rose
• Corkscrew Spiral
• Irish Lace Button or Pistil
• Irish Lace Leaf

We will practice the elements first with a thicker yarn, and than in the second half, we will assemble the wreath together.
Naturally you can use these items on anything, you don't have to make the wreath itself. You can saw them on a hair-clip, on clothes, on a hat, and the list is never ending. And obviously you can combine the element freely, as you wish!
This course was designed for experienced crocheters, so if you have done my Crochet Basics course, and practiced a little, you are good to go. I will explain everything in the ordinary way you are used to by now, also you will find the Pattern Reading explanations after each item, as well as you can download the patterns as PDFs, attached to the Pattern Reading lessons.
I show you one way of assembling, but you can do anything you wish! For collecting ideas, check for example Pinterest, type - crochet wreath.

If you like the course, please leave a review, this is very very valuable for me, and this way you help me to make more courses (more nice reviews - more sale - more chance to put more effort into course making).
Shall you have any question, suggestion, or would like to send me photos of your creations, I am always very happy to hear from you! You can get in touch with me on Udemy, my FB page or via e-mail.
Enroll quickly, and let`s start to crochet today!
​Emi

I had an interesting conversation the other day with someone on FB. She was in a discussion with a friend of mine, and said, she forgot how to do granny squares, but wants to do them again, and searching for a video tutorial for that.
My friend suggested and tagged me in her response, so from this point, I joined as well.
I gave her a discount coupon for my Crochet Basics course, but she immediately replied, why to spend money, if she can find this information for free?
Fair point. And it made me think.
On one hand, I assume, she knows already how to crochet, was only looking for particularly the granny square - which I have as well on my youtube channel for free, so no need to invest in a  course.
I started to think about, what extra am I giving, which makes it worth to pay for my tutorials?

I know very well, what is available free on the internet, I have spent years and years to search for things, searching for certain things, and if I have found it, still the quality of the video, voice, the position of the camera, the style of the explanation... these are vary in a very big scale, and let's be honest, the majority is not very enjoyable.
Furthermore a great collection of all the needed skill, is really hard to find.
I try to design my courses in a way, they include some special tricks and skills, which also took me years to discover and master.
FSC - Foundation Single Crochet technique for example I only learned some years ago, and I find it really useful!
I will soon release the Floral Wreath course on Udemy, where I collected 6 items - each of them took me a while to find, how to make, and none of them can be figured out easily, just by looking at them. They are very special crochet items - not a surprise, half of the items are coming from irish lace crochet, which technique is fascinating me.

The other thing is, sometimes in the magazines they don't actually tell the entire process in detail. I have seen a lot of Xmas crystal pattern, only they forgot to tell, that you need to starch them - by pinning it onto a hard surface, otherwise they will never look like in the magazines picture. Honestly, they will look awful without starching.
I mean these little - but crucial details. I believe, these articles are made by non-crocheters, they have never made this item, found the nice picture, looked good, asked someone to make a description, and that is it.
I have a book, with lots of basic techniques described, from England. All the items has a diagram, they explain the pattern with abridgments and with the diagram also. I look at the diagram, I try to make it following the instructions, and it looks not nice. I try to do it again and again, finally I come up with a better solution. Because how to go to the next round, can be solved in many ways, (talking about patterns here) but it is matter, actually HOW you are going to do it!
So I keep on doing it, until I find the best solution.
And I provide these knowledge to my students. Everything I teach is tried and tested.
There is a reason why they emphasize in the cooking recipe books or sites, that these recipes are all tested and cooked. 
A proficient chef can figure out a meal in their head, like I can come up with new patterns easy. But when I actually do them, turns out, that what I imagined, doesn't work 100% the way I thought it would. And that little matters a lot!
So that is why. I put extra - hard to find patterns and techniques, most of the people never heard of, and I do actually try and test them, and provide a simple demonstration, with the most complicated thing can be done easily.
And my courses are really fairly cheap ;)

I try to edit the Floral Wreath in the next 10 days... so stay tuned ;)
Spring is coming, time to make some fresh beauty into the room!