Hello and welcome! My name is Leyla and all of my life various fiber arts have played a very importanr role for me. You can read more about me here. I have been sharing my hobbies with the world since January 2010 on Silk & Wool website.
2020 has been a special year and I have done a lot of thinking about what I want to do with my life. One of the dreams that I have had for many years now, is to run a craft club – a place where people can come and learn or improve various fiber arts or simply share their progress and spend time with like minded crowd. While that might still be far away, I felt it was time to start taking steps in the right direction. So, partially inspired by a virtual friend Alesya from Prague Socks, I decided to teach some local people crochet over the summer for free here in the South of France. I posted in one of the local Facebook groups, and then in another, and I was totally overwhelmed by the number of people who responded. This was the highlight of my otherwise rather challenging summer, and the adventure will hopefully continue and grow. There is a Facebook group I set up to share the information about the meetings and other ideas.
Then in September I started thinking about the ways to develop my “crochet school”, and I have decided to try and share some of my knowledge online, here. On one hand, I want my real life students to have a place to come to at home, when they feel that they need to refresh the information from the class. On the other hand, hopefully the same information can be useful to other people out there who are learning how to crochet.
I hope to be able to grow this site with the time and fill it with lots of useful information about crochet.