Expert Village

[crochetingtakesguts]

Has anyone tried the videos on expert village. I have viewded most of them as they are free. I do not recommend the Martha McCue set as they are minimal. She starts with an intro video as the others do. Does a demo of the basic stitches including half treble in crochet thread and a lace hook and also does an explaination of patterns and where to get them. She features a demo of making a doily in three parts and how to do a doll dress.

 

 

The Sue Gillman set is on how to make an afghan and she has another set on making fringe. The afghan is a shell stitch afghan done in acrylic yarn. It is a nice afghan and her instructions are row by row. My only problem is she calls double crochet the "double chain".

 

 

I love the Beth Essington ones. She takes you through all the basic stitches on a small swatch done in multicolored bright yarn and is done with a perspective view. She goes over hook types and tons of different yarn types. She also gives advice on purses,squares,shawls, and squares and scarfs her instructions are clear and concises and I love her videos the most.

[crochetstepmom]

I actually just found this site yesterday. I did a search on crochetville and found this thread.

 

I haven't had a chance to do much exploring on this site, but there are 293 crochet videos. This site actually has interesting videos on tons of subjects.

 

The link is here:

 

http://expertvillage.com

[ChrisCrossCrafts]

By Martha McCue - It was her doing maybe two stitches and then showing finished dolls?

[crochetstepmom]

Yeah, I watched a couple of hers and thought...well...I don't know .

 

It's obvious that she knows how to crochet and is quite proficent at it, but she also keeps calling it a "needle" instead of a hook, and when she's using yarn, she calls it "thread."

 

Some of the other ones are bit more informative.

 

Anyway, I love watching crochet videos. I think it's fun to watch other people crochet.