New Class Schedule

My new classes have officially been approved by LA Harbor College Extension! Check out my "Classes & Events" page for detailed information. Feel free to contact me at liacreates [at] gmail [dot] com with any questions. To sign up, please follow the link to the Extension program website.

Upcoming Classes

Each class I have at LA Harbor College gets better & better. I love all the ladies who've joined me and they always have great ideas for new classes. So I went ahead and submitted some class ideas to the coordinator and they were all approved!

Next semester I will be having all of the following classes:

Introductory Crochet (which I've been teaching already)
Absolutely basic class. You can come in with no knowledge of crochet at all & walk out able to make tons of basic projects!

Intermediate Crochet- Mastering the Granny Square

We'll demystify the math behind the traditional granny square and learn some variations. Then it's time to dive into many different projects and learn various ways to join & border your squares! You'll need to know how to chain, single crochet & double crochet.

Beginning Amigurumi

Your knowledge of just the single crochet will help you make lots of little friends! We'll learn shaping techniques, how to invisibly attach limbs and give them facial features full of expression and life!

Crochet Lab

By popular request, this is a class in the loosest sense of the term. Bring in a project you're working on or a pattern you'd like to tackle and I'll help you work out the kinks! I'll have some tools on hand for purchase that can make your crocheting easier, too.

If you've been in my class before and don't see your class idea above, let me know! I've decided to just dive into the whole teaching thing because I really love it.

If you teach and have any ideas you'd like to share, PLEASE do so in the comments! I've got several classes under my belt at this point, but I always want to improve my teaching techniques.

First Class of 2011

Check out my Classes & Events tab. I'll be teaching at LA Harbor College again this year.

For those who have taken Intro to Crochet... I am working on an intermediate & advanced course. I'm working out the details with LAHC and should have them available next semester!

hilarious

Yarn over yarn over chain one two three!

I'll be at LAHC tomorrow teachin' folks how to crochet in-the-round to make some fun coffee cup sleeves just in time to stuff some stockings. I'm super excited.

Yearning For Yarn

I'm teaching an Introduction to Crochet class at LA Harbor College in a few weeks. The guy who runs the extension program happens to be a friend and invited me to teach after seeing some of my completed projects on Facebook. He was the one who decided the project for the class- a media cozy, basically. It's a good, simple item that we can get a good start on in the 3 hour class, so I agreed.

So here's the issue: I like to do everything in the round. Finishing is the bane of my crafty existence (please see 90% done works-in-progress to your right. boooooooo). Unfortunately, I think that's not the best way to teach beginners. They really need to learn about turning chains. So looks like I'm gonna have to churn out a cozy with lots of finishing.

So the upside is that gave me a reason to go a little nuts while buying materials. I get to give my students a fun bundle of hooks, yarn, darning needles, stitch markers... and maybe something else? Honestly- I'm already right at the limit of the budgeted materials fee, but may decide to go slightly over anyway. I'm really not in the class for the money anyway. I'm just excited to share the crochet love with new people. I like the idea that they might use the same hook or pull out a couple stitch markers one day years from now and remember how they started learning.

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