Do you think you can teach your craft to a non family member

Hi venshida! I've taught a couple different crafts to people. For the last few months I've been helping my sister teach classes on making toothbrush rugs at a local fiber arts store. If you'd like to see a picture of one I have one on my profile. Sometimes it's very difficult to teach someone else a new technique. Most of the women that have taken these classes have done a lot of other types of crafts before, so they're used to making things with their hands. But some have wound up having a hard time because it's different than what they usually do. Actually the hardest thing I've run into is that my sister & I are both right handed and it seems like in every class there's at least one left handed person. Somehow I've been able to get where I can think of doing it "backwards," to the point that I think I could make a whole rug the way a left handed person would! Happy crafting and myLotting!

Being good with various crafts and being a good teacher are two beasts of a very different color. The number one requisite virtue of a teacher is patience, and being able to find how each student learns best, and to use that to that student's best advantage. This doesn't make you a bad person; lots of people are incredibly talented, but don't possess the gift of being able to pass on their incredible talents. It was nice of you to teach her a few stitches. Now the best thing would be to point her in the right direction so she can find what she's specifically looking for. If you're feeling gracious, tell her she can come to you if she has any questions, and you'll try to help her with them. My favorite pattern book was a comforter that was comprised of 63 squares, and each square was a different stitch. I thought, What a great way to learn 63 different stitches!! I referred back to that one pattern book time and time again, and ended up making I don't know how many other afghans based on stitches I learned from that book. What was useful was the instructions for each stitch included how to count stitches to make larger pieces with that stitch. I LOVED that book to tatters.

I've actually taught classes in knitting and crocheting, and i can read and write patterns. That being said, to teach someone to knit or to crochet you just have to be willing to go slowly and show each step.

i have taught arts and crafts to friends and they liked to do what i had done, but this was several years ago when i was interested in tole painting, now i am a collage junkie!

I have taught a coworker to crochet...and she did just fine. I am like you....I have a hard time following patterns so when I see something I'll make my own so that I can understand what I am doing....I have also spent alot of time with friends teaching them other things like painting....it went well....I think though it's hard to teach the yarn crafts....