In their words

The longer accounts, printed the way they were written.

Some students write a sentence. Some write five paragraphs about the six weeks it took them. The long ones are gathered here unedited, because somebody still deciding wants to hear from a person who was where she is.

24 stories

Deepa Iyer

Coimbatore

Studied: Learn Crochet in 30 Days — Beginner Course

I nearly asked for the refund in week two. My tension was awful and everything came out curling. I wrote in expecting a form letter and got a voice note back the next morning telling me exactly what my hands were doing wrong. Two days later it clicked. I'm glad nobody talked me into staying — they just fixed the actual problem.

Nazneen Shaikh

Bhopal

Studied: Crochet Confidence Kit — Signature

I'll be honest, I hesitated because I'd never heard of them and I was paying up front. Access opened the second the payment went through, the kit had a tracking link the next day, and every question I've sent has been answered by a person. That's more than I get from companies I've bought from for years.

Shalini Ramesh

Chennai

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

My nine-year-old asked for it after seeing a friend's keychain, and I assumed it would go the way of the ukulele. She is on week five. What made the difference is that the first lesson ends with a finished thing — she had something in her hand on day one and showed it to everyone who came to the house.

Preeti Malhotra

Chandigarh

Studied: Crochet Confidence Kit — Signature

Course is excellent, three stars is for the delivery — mine took nine days, not the three to eight it said, and the tracking sat unmoved for a while. Support answered the same day and were straight with me about it. I'd still buy again, I just wouldn't order it the week before someone's birthday.

Ritu Bansal

Jaipur

Studied: Learn Crochet in 30 Days — Beginner Course

Left-handed, and I had already given up on one course for this reason. The stitches here are demonstrated so you can mirror them, and when I still couldn't get the treble right someone in the group posted a flipped clip for me the same evening. That was the moment I decided to keep going.

Divya Suresh

Salem

Studied: The ₹30,000 Crochet Plan

I paid ₹199 expecting a sales pitch with a price at the end. It is six videos and a costing sheet, and the sheet is the part I use. I had been selling keychains at ₹120 without counting my own hours. They were costing me ₹96 to make. I put the price up to ₹250 and nobody stopped buying.

Reshma Kadam

Kolhapur

Studied: Crochet Business Blueprint

I already knew how to crochet. What I did not know was what to make that people buy, what to charge, or how to get anyone to see it. The Instagram section is not generic advice — it is what to post for a craft product specifically, and my first reel from that template did 40,000 views.

Sushmita Bhatt

Ranchi

Studied: The ₹30,000 Crochet Plan

What I wanted was a number I could believe. This gives you the actual arithmetic — hours per piece, yarn cost, what people in your city will pay — and lets you work out your own. Mine came to about ₹18,000 a month at ten hours a week, not thirty thousand. I would rather know that now.

Farheen Qureshi

Hyderabad

Studied: Learn Crochet in 30 Days — Beginner Course

Two kids and a full-time job, so I do about twenty-five minutes after they're down. It took me nearer nine weeks than six and I stopped feeling bad about that around week three. The point is I'm still doing it in month four, which has never happened with anything else I've picked up.

Ravi Krishnan

Bengaluru

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

The pitch that got me was 'not another screen', which I was sceptical about because it is obviously watched on a screen. In practice he watches two minutes, pauses, and works for twenty. That ratio is the whole thing. It is the only tablet time in this house I don't have to police.

Meghna Kulkarni

Pune

Studied: Amigurumi Toys Course

I spent about four months trying to learn off YouTube and never got past a lumpy first row — every video assumed I already knew how to hold the hook. Here the magic ring alone is three angles and a slow repeat. My first bunny was done in four days and my daughter has claimed it.

Priyanka Sethi

Gurugram

Studied: Learn Crochet in 30 Days — Beginner Course

I have a graveyard of online courses I paid for and opened twice. This is the first one I have finished, and I think it is because every week ends with an actual finished object. You can't fool yourself about progress when there is a small crocheted thing sitting on the table.

Sadaf Rehman

Lucknow

Studied: Crochet Confidence Kit — Signature

Honestly the kit is why I started at all. I had been putting it off because I didn't know which hook size or which yarn to buy and the shop near me sells one type. It came in four days, everything labelled, and I didn't have to make a single decision before my first stitch.

Bhavya Kotecha

Surat

Studied: The Crochet Club

I joined on the free month fully intending to cancel on day twenty-nine. What stopped me was finding the cancel button on the first try, in my account, with no chat window and nobody offering me a discount to stay. A company that makes leaving easy is one I'll keep paying.

Sneha Patil

Nashik

Studied: Learn Crochet in 30 Days — Beginner Course

Four stars only because some lessons are longer than they need to be and I found myself skipping ahead, and I'd have liked one more colour in the kit. The teaching itself is the best I've found in any language — I've made eleven things now and given most of them away.

Anita Bhagat

Nagpur

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

Four stars because my son needed me next to him for the first three lessons — the eight-to-fourteen range is wide and at eight he needed a hand. After that he was independent and now teaches his sister. Worth knowing before you buy if your child is at the younger end.

Fatima Sheikh

Aurangabad

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

She has made fourteen things and sold four of them to my colleagues at ₹150 each. I did not expect the money part at all — it came from her, not from the course — but watching her work out that people will pay for something she made has been worth more than the fee.

Harpreet Kaur

Ludhiana

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

Bought it for my son and had to explain to two aunts that boys crochet. The course simply does not make a thing of it — the projects are footballs, dinosaurs, a phone pouch, and the teaching voice never once says 'girls'. That mattered more than I expected it to.

Pooja Nandakumar

Mysuru

Studied: The ₹30,000 Crochet Plan

Fair value for ₹199 but manage your expectations — it is a plan, not a course. Nobody will make you a business in six videos. What it did do is stop me guessing at prices, and it made clear the bigger programme is where the templates and the shop setup live.

Nithya Balakrishnan

Madurai

Studied: Crochet Business Blueprint

I sell at two weekend markets and had never touched online. The pricing model here took my average order from ₹380 to ₹690 without losing customers, because I stopped pricing against the aunty at the next stall and started pricing against what it costs me.

Meera Joshi

Indore

Studied: Crochet for Kids — 8 to 14

I was worried about the hook with a child. They start with a large blunt hook and thick yarn, the grip is taught before any stitch, and there is a whole lesson on where to put it down when you stop. My daughter is eight and I have not once had to hover.

Rukhsar Ali

Srinagar

Studied: Amigurumi Toys Course

The safety eyes had me nervous — my sister's cat is a menace — and there is a whole two minutes on attaching them properly which I did not expect. Small thing, but it is the sort of detail that tells you someone has actually taught this to real people.

Vaishnavi Rao

Bengaluru

Studied: The Crochet Club

The thing a subscription solves for me is the gap after you finish something and don't know what to make next. A new pattern lands, I look at it, I want it, I start. I have not had a single idle month since I joined, which was the whole problem before.

Lakshmi Subramanian

Chennai

Studied: The Crochet Club

I don't make everything that comes out — probably half of it isn't my style. But two patterns a year that I'd have paid for individually already covers it, and I've had more than two. Would like a few more home pieces and fewer wearables, personally.