{"id":11411,"date":"2014-05-27T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2017-05-19T06:51:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T10:51:03","slug":"teaching-with-planetjune-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/teaching-with-planetjune-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"teaching with PlanetJune patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that you can teach classes using my paid or donationware\/free patterns? Well, today I have a PlanetJune Story for you on just that topic, from Beth Graham, a designer and teacher who works and teaches crochet at Shall We Knit?<\/em> in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (You can connect with Beth on Ravelry<\/a> or Facebook<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Shall We Knit?<\/a><\/em> is a crochet friendly shop featuring rooms of yarns, fiber, books, and inspiration for knitters, crocheters, and spinners. You can contact the store<\/a> for info on their crochet classes and one-on-one instruction. Sadly, I just missed out on the chance to count them as my own<\/strong> local yarn store, as they relocated to my old home town of Waterloo shortly after I left for South Africa! I’m still a bit sad about that even now; just look at all that pretty yarn…<\/p>\n

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\nShall We Knit? photo, borrowed from www.shallweknit.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Beth taught an Amigurumi Apples<\/a> class last Saturday, and has kindly offered to share her experience with us. Over to you, Beth:<\/p>\n

I offered a successful class at Shall We Knit?<\/em> featuring June’s Amigurumi Apples pattern. The two-hour project class on beginner amigurumi introduced crocheters to the adjustable loop technique, the formula for creating flat circles using increases and decreases to create 3-D shapes, and June’s ingenious invisible decrease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Because of the apple’s simple, yet elegant, design, students left the course feeling quite clever, and \u2013 even better! \u2013 having finished their projects!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Amigurumi Apples is a perfect teaching tool for introducing all these techniques and more, and I highly recommend it to other instructors considering a beginner amigurumi class. (I got permission from June to use the pattern prior to the class and purchased a copy for each student.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well done, Beth – it sounds like your class was a great success! I’ve taught classes using a few of my patterns and I know how good it feels to guide new crocheters – or new amigurumists – to complete their first amigurumi. Once they’ve mastered the basic skills, they’ll have the confidence to attempt any amigurumi pattern. <\/p>\n

As Beth said, it’s easy to teach with any PlanetJune pattern (paid or donationware) – all you need to do is purchase a copy of the pattern for yourself and one for each of your students. So, if you work in a yarn store or teach crochet classes independently, why not use a PlanetJune pattern for your next class?<\/p>\n

Please see my Teaching FAQ<\/a> for further details, and don’t forget to take a couple of photos of your class – I’d love to share them here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that you can teach classes using my paid or donationware\/free patterns? Well, today I have a PlanetJune Story for you on just that topic, from Beth Graham, a designer and teacher who works and teaches crochet at Shall We Knit? in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. (You can connect with Beth on Ravelry or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetjune-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}