Crochet University
  • BBC
  • The Times of India
  • ETV Bharat
  • Greater Kashmir
  • Rising Kashmir

For complete beginners · Hindi and English

Stop watching other people crochet. Learn to make it yourself.

That bag you saved. Those amigurumi you keep seeing. The flowers you wished you could make.

Crochet isn't a talent you're born with. It's a skill you can learn, one stitch and one project at a time - starting from absolute zero, on a clear 30-day path built for beginners.

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01

Maybe some of this sounds familiar

  • Crochet has been sitting at the back of your mind for a while
  • You save crochet Reels and never do anything with them
  • You see somebody make something beautiful and think, I wish I could do that
  • You bought yarn once. It's still in the cupboard.
  • Somebody at home knew crochet, and you never got round to asking
  • You followed a tutorial and gave up halfway
  • Or you've simply been looking for something better to do with the little free time you have

Wherever you're starting from, you don't need talent. You need the right first step.

Crochet isn't a talent you're born with

“You're so talented.” We hear that whenever somebody sees finished crochet.

But nobody starts there. Before anyone makes a finished amigurumi they learn a chain. Then one stitch. Then a small piece that takes an evening. Then something they would actually give away.

Crochet looks difficult when you only ever see the finished result. Inside the course we break that result back down into skills you learn one at a time.

You are not expected to walk in knowing how to crochet. That is the whole point.

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What if a little of your scrolling time became something you can hold?

You don't need an entire Sunday. You don't need three uninterrupted hours.

Start with a little time when you have it. One lesson. One stitch. A few more rows.

And instead of wondering where your free time went, you slowly have something in your hands that didn't exist before you made it.

You're allowed to learn something simply because making things feels good.

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The beginner path

From “I don't even know how to hold the hook” to “I made this”

Five steps, in this order. Nothing skipped, nothing assumed, and something finished at the end of the first one.

  1. 1

    Start from zero

    How to hold the hook. How to hold and control the yarn. What each tool is for, and how crochet actually works.

  2. 2

    Build your basics

    The foundational stitches and techniques, learned properly, without jumping ahead to something you're not ready for.

  3. 3

    Start making

    Practice turns into actual beginner projects — a coaster, a pouch, things that exist when you put them down.

  4. 4

    Enter amigurumi

    The techniques behind crochet characters and shapes: the magic circle, invisible increases, stuffing, faces.

  5. 5

    Finish projects yourself

    Follow a pattern and take a piece from the first chain to the last woven end without anybody holding your hand.

Every free tutorial teaches stitches in the order a book teaches them, which means three weeks of squares before you make anything. Almost nobody survives three weeks of squares. That is not a talent problem, it is a sequencing problem and the goal here isn't to make you watch a lot of lessons, it's to help you actually make things. That distinction is the whole course.

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08

“But there are free crochet videos on YouTube”

Random tutorialsThis course
What should I learn?Whatever the algorithm shows you nextStart here. Lesson one, then lesson two.
Which yarn? Which hook?Every video uses something differentOne buying guide, naming what to pick up and what to walk past
Am I doing it right?No way to tell, and nobody to askThe round is filmed going wrong too — and you can send a photo
What comes next?Thirty saved tutorials and no orderPractise this. Make this. Then move forward.
LanguageUsually English, sometimes subtitlesHindi and English, switchable, the same lesson filmed twice
So what are you paying for?More crochet videosA clear path through them

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Everything you need to go from curious to creating

  • The beginner crochet course

    A structured starting path for somebody learning from scratch in 30 days, filmed at the speed a beginner's hands actually move.

  • The complete amigurumi course

    One of crochet's most exciting forms: the bunny, the cow, and the shaping that makes them look bought rather than made.

  • Hindi and English lessons

    Learn in whichever is easier to follow. Every lesson exists in both  not subtitles over an English voice.

  • Printable patterns

    Keep the instructions beside you instead of holding a phone with yarn on your hands.

  • Beginner support

    When you're confused you don't have to work it out alone. Send a photo of where it went wrong and a person replies.

  • Lifetime access

    Learn at your own pace and come back whenever you need including everything added to these two courses later.

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Nazar in the press

Coverage of the work, not of the course — with somewhere to check it.

Nazar Nasir's crochet work has been covered by publications including BBC Urdu, The Times of India, Media India Group, Greater Kashmir, Rising Kashmir, ETV Bharat, Sabrang India and Global Order.
The coverage is not here to make the course feel fancy. It simply shows that the person teaching you has built something real enough for people to notice, while still teaching beginners slowly from the first stitch.
Nazar with the coverage
Nazar with the coverage

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And these, included

  • 1

    The five-project pattern pack

    Printable PDFs for your first five projects.

  • 2

    The yarn and hook buying guide

    What to buy in an Indian craft shop, by name, and what to walk past.

  • 3

    The fixing-it library

    Short clips for the eleven things that go wrong most, searchable by what your work looks like.

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Here's the path you'll follow

  1. 1

    Days 1-5 · Get your hands comfortable

    You begin with the basics that decide whether crochet feels frustrating or possible: how to hold the hook, control the yarn, start a chain, and make your first rows look even.

    Show 3 lessons +
    • Set up your tools without overbuying
    • Learn the first movements slowly
    • Fix the common beginner mistakes early
  2. 2

    Days 6-10 · Build stitch confidence

    Once your hands understand the rhythm, you start learning how stitches change height, texture, and shape so you are not just copying a video.

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    • Make cleaner rows
    • Understand stitch height and tension
    • Practise with a simple sample you can actually see improving
  3. 3

    Days 11-15 · Learn to follow instructions

    This is where crochet starts becoming independent. You learn the language of patterns, how to read what your hands are making, and how shaping begins.

    Show 3 lessons +
    • Read abbreviations without panic
    • Understand gauge and sizing
    • Start shaping with increases, decreases, and rounds
  4. 4

    Days 16-20 · Make your work look intentional

    You move from practice pieces into the details that make crochet look neat: round work, color changes, granny squares, borders, and finishing choices.

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    • Work in rounds with more control
    • Change colors cleanly
    • Add edges and details that make a piece feel finished
  5. 5

    Days 21-30 · Finish real projects

    The final stretch is about turning skills into finished work. You plan, make, correct, finish, and present projects instead of collecting half-learned tutorials.

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    • Make a small project from start to finish
    • Plan the next piece before you begin
    • Finish, weave ends, block, and share your work
  6. 6

    Amigurumi bonus path · Turn your basics into toys

    After the beginner path, you get a guided look at amigurumi so you understand how simple crochet becomes shapes, parts, and cute finished pieces.

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    • Learn the toy-making logic
    • Build beginner-friendly shapes
    • Assemble a finished character with guidance
  7. 7

    Hindi + English access · Learn in the language that is easiest to follow

    The course is structured so you can follow the same path in English or Hindi, without trying to decode fast tutorials while your hands are still learning.

    Show 3 lessons +
    • Watch the version that feels natural
    • Revisit lessons whenever you need
    • Move forward in order, with support when you get stuck

You finish with something to show for it

A certificate, issued when you actually reach the end.

Finish the lessons and the course issues a certificate in your name, dated the day you finished, with a reference on it. It is yours to print, to keep, or to send to whoever said this was a phase.

It is not a participation slip. It is issued against the lessons actually being completed — which is why most people who start a craft course never get one.

  • Issued in your name, on the day you finish
  • Carries a reference that can be checked against your account
  • One for each course you complete
  • Yours to print or share
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They started as beginners too

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This was actually my third attempt at learning crochet. The first two times I bought yarn, watched YouTube for a few days, couldn’t understand what my hands were doing and eventually put everything back in the cupboard. I genuinely thought maybe crochet just wasn’t for me. This time I started from the very beginning instead of jumping between videos. Somewhere around my first finished piece, I realised I wasn’t bad at crochet. I had just never learned it in an order that made sense.
MMeghna Kulkarni · Pune
I used to save crochet bags, flowers and those little amigurumi animals on Instagram even though I had absolutely no idea how people made them. I remember finishing my first little piece and just staring at it because it had come from a ball of yarn in my own hands. Now when I see something cute, my first thought isn’t only ‘Where can I buy that?’ Sometimes it’s ‘Could I make that?’
AAnjali Nair · Kochi
I was very good at starting hobbies and very bad at finishing them. I already had half-used yarn from two previous crochet attempts. What kept me going here was making something small quite early instead of practising stitches endlessly. The first thing I made wasn’t perfect at all. But I finished it. That sounds small until you’ve spent years telling yourself you’re someone who never sticks with these things.
PPriyanka Sethi · Gurugram
Two kids, a full-time job and honestly very little uninterrupted time. I stopped waiting for a ‘free evening’ because those apparently don’t exist in my house. 😂 I started doing twenty or thirty minutes after the kids slept, and sometimes I didn’t touch crochet for three days. It took me longer than I expected, but that stopped bothering me. The course was still there. My yarn was still there. I just continued where I left off.
FFarheen Qureshi · Hyderabad
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Everything was going fine until my work suddenly started curling and I couldn’t understand why. Normally that is exactly where I would have closed the video and quietly abandoned another hobby. This time I asked for help, understood what I was doing with my tension and tried again. The important part wasn’t that I got stuck. It was that getting stuck didn’t mean I had to stop.
DDeepa Iyer · Coimbatore
The beginning was slower than I personally needed because I had already learned a few stitches before joining, so I skipped parts of the basics. But once the projects started, the course made much more sense to me. I realised knowing four stitches and knowing how to actually make something with them are very different things. That’s the part I had been missing.
SSneha Patil · Nashik
The first thing I made for someone else was a tiny keychain for my sister. It wasn’t expensive. It wasn’t perfectly shaped either. But when I gave it to her she looked at me and said, ‘Wait, YOU made this?’ I don’t know why that felt so much better than giving her something I had ordered online. Now half the things I make already have someone’s name attached to them before they’re finished.
KKarishma Dutta · Guwahati
I had one of those bags of yarn that makes you feel slightly guilty every time you open the cupboard. Bought everything with full enthusiasm. Watched tutorials for a week. Then it sat there for months. I joined mostly because I wanted to finally use what I’d already bought. The nicest part wasn’t buying more yarn. It was finally turning the old yarn into something.
JJyoti Verma · Kanpur
I nearly didn’t join because I’m not what anyone would call a creative person. I can’t draw, I’ve never been into crafts, and everyone I saw crocheting online seemed naturally good at it. Then the course was basically: do this stitch, now repeat it, now add this. It felt less like needing talent and more like learning a sequence. My first bunny is slightly wonky and I love it because I know exactly how impossible it looked to me a few weeks earlier.
AAditi Ranganathan · Bengaluru
I understand English perfectly well, but crochet words like tension, yarn over and magic ring were somehow making an already new skill feel more complicated. Hindi mein samajhne ke baad suddenly I wasn’t translating the instruction in my head while trying to move my hands. I could just listen and do. I didn’t realise how much difference learning in the language you’re comfortable with could make.
SShabnam Bano · Patna
I am 58 and I almost convinced myself this was something I should have learned when I was younger. The first few days my fingers felt completely confused. I kept pausing, rewinding and doing the same movement again. Then one evening my hands just did the stitch without me thinking so hard about it. That was the moment I stopped asking whether I was too old and started wondering what I should make next.
LLata Krishnamurthy · Mysuru
My problem wasn’t that I knew nothing. I knew chain, single crochet and a couple of other stitches from YouTube. But ask me to make something without a video playing beside me and I had no idea what to do next. That is the biggest difference for me now. I finally understand how the stitches become an actual project instead of just copying someone’s hands on a screen.
RRachana Deshmukh · Nagpur
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Students, in their own words

Filmed at home, unscripted, nothing read off a card.

Inside the class group

The part of the course a curriculum cannot show you.

First finished piece, and the group's reaction
First finished piece, and the group's reaction
A student writing after her first week
A student writing after her first week
“At 39 I have befriended crochet”
“At 39 I have befriended crochet”
Students answering each other, unprompted
Students answering each other, unprompted

Real messages from the class group, shared with permission. Phone numbers have been removed.

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Your first project probably won't be perfect

And that's fine.

Your first stitches may be uneven. You might undo a row. You might replay a lesson. You may need to try something twice.

Then something changes. At some point you look down and realise: wait - "I actually made this".

The next project is a little easier. The one after that makes a little more sense. That is how a skill gets built, and it is the only way anybody has ever built one.

Nazar

Learn with somebody who remembers what beginners get stuck on

Nazar

Founder, The Crochet Boy · Srinagar, Kashmir

Nazar taught himself to crochet from patchy internet in Kashmir, getting stuck on the same rounds everybody gets stuck on, with nobody to ask.

Crochet gets confusing when somebody demonstrates quickly and assumes you already know the basics. His teaching is built around slowing those moments down and showing what your hands actually need to do.

He built this course as the one he wishes had existed in Hindi and English together, slow where it needs to be slow, and honest about the parts that are genuinely fiddly.

His work has been covered by the BBC and The Times of India.

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As featured in

  • BBC
  • The Times of India
  • ETV Bharat
  • Greater Kashmir
  • Rising Kashmir
  • BBC
  • The Times of India
  • ETV Bharat
  • Greater Kashmir
  • Rising Kashmir
  • BBC
  • The Times of India
  • ETV Bharat
  • Greater Kashmir
  • Rising Kashmir

Crochet doesn't have an age limit

Maybe you watched your mother or your grandmother crochet. Maybe you tried it years ago. Maybe you're discovering it for the first time at 22. Maybe you're finally making time for yourself at 45.

The starting stitch is the same.

You don't need to be young. You don't need to be “crafty”. You only need to be willing to begin.

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Some of us saw crochet long before it started trending

Maybe it was your nani making something quietly in the afternoon. Your dadi's crochet table cover. Your mother's handmade pieces. Or something tucked away at home that somebody made years ago.

Today crochet looks different - bags, flowers, amigurumi, accessories, things people put on a shelf on purpose. But the skill underneath is the same one.

Maybe this is your turn to learn it.

Learn it for yourself. Use it for the people you love.

Today the course might begin because you want a hobby.

Later it becomes something you make for your mother. Something handmade for your best friend. A small piece for a new baby. Or the gift that makes somebody say: wait — you made this for me?

Some gifts cost money. Handmade gifts also carry your time.

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Is this for you?

This course is for you if…

  • You're a complete beginner
  • You've tried learning before and got confused
  • You know a little but haven't progressed
  • You've saved crochet tutorials and never properly started
  • You want a structured hobby rather than another thing to scroll
  • You love crochet projects and want to make them yourself
  • You'd rather have it explained in Hindi

It may not be for you if…

  • You already crochet confidently at an advanced level
  • You're looking primarily for a crochet-business course
  • You only want one specific advanced bag pattern
  • You want a get-rich-with-crochet programme

“But I don't have hours every day”

You don't need them.

The course is filmed and self-paced. Some days you watch a lesson. Some days you practise for twenty or thirty minutes. Some days you do nothing at all. Then you carry on.

Lifetime access means the course doesn't disappear because life got busy.

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“Which yarn? Which hook? What do I actually need?”

Exactly the questions a beginner should be asking, and the ones nobody answers.

You don't have to arrive already understanding yarn weights and hook sizes. Lesson one is what's in your kit and what each tool does, and the buying guide names what to pick up in an Indian craft shop  by name  and what to walk past.

To start you need yarn and a 5 mm hook, which is about ₹300. If you'd rather it arrived in a box, there's a kit.

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What happens the moment you join

  1. 1You get an email and a WhatsApp message with your login within a minute
  2. 2Day one's lesson is forty minutes and ends with a finished keychain
  3. 3If you get stuck, send a photo — a person answers
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Give yourself a real chance to learn

Join, start learning, and find out whether the teaching works for you — with the terms written down rather than implied.

  • Who it applies to — anybody who buys this course.
  • How long you have — Lifetime from the moment you pay.
  • What you have to do — email and say you'd like a refund. You don't have to finish anything, prove anything or give a reason.
  • How you get it back — to the card, UPI ID or account you paid from, usually within 5–7 working days.
  • What happens to access — it ends when the refund is issued.

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The questions people actually ask

I've tried crochet before and quit. What is actually different here?+

Most people don't quit because they can't crochet. They get stuck because they learn a stitch here, watch another tutorial there, and never understand how everything connects. Here, we start from the basics and follow a sequence from holding the hook to understanding stitches, reading the work, and finishing actual projects. The goal isn't to make you watch more crochet. It's to get you to the point where you can actually make it.

I am a complete beginner. Like, I don't even know how to hold a hook. Is this for me?+

Yes. That's exactly where the course begins. You don't need to know yarn types, hook sizes, stitches, patterns, or crochet terminology beforehand. We assume you're starting from zero and build from there. If you've never crocheted before, you're not behind.

I've watched so many YouTube tutorials. Why would I need a course?+

YouTube is great when you already know what you need to learn next. That's usually the problem for beginners. One video teaches a stitch. Another makes a flower. Another uses terminology you've never heard before. You end up knowing little pieces without knowing how they fit together. This course gives those pieces an order. You always know what to learn next and what to make with it.

What if I can follow the video but can't crochet without it?+

That's a very normal stage. At first you'll pause, rewind and copy what you see. But the goal isn't to keep you dependent on the lesson forever. As you repeat the stitches across real projects, the movements and logic start becoming familiar, so you gradually need the video less. That's when you go from following crochet to actually learning crochet.

I don't have hours every day. Can I still learn?+

Yes. You don't need to organise your life around the course. Some days you might practise for 20-30 minutes. Some days you'll do more. Some days life gets busy and you'll do nothing. It's self-paced and you have lifetime access, so there isn't a countdown forcing you to finish. Learn at a pace you can actually maintain.

What yarn and hook do I need? I have no idea what to buy.+

We'll explain that before expecting you to make anything. You'll learn what the different materials are, what they're used for, and what you actually need as a beginner, so you don't have to walk into a craft shop and guess. You don't need a huge collection of yarn and tools to start.

I'm 40/45/50+. Am I too old to start crochet?+

Not at all. Some people learn crochet from their grandmother as children. Some discover it in college. Others finally make time for it at 40 or 50. The starting stitch doesn't change with your age. You don't need to be young or naturally crafty. You just need to be willing to be a beginner for a while.

Are the lessons in Hindi or English?+

Both Hindi and English lessons are available, so you can learn in whichever language makes the instructions easier for you to understand. Crochet already has enough unfamiliar terminology when you're beginning. Language shouldn't make it harder.

Will I only learn stitches, or will I actually make things?+

You'll make things. Learning stitches matters, but practising stitches endlessly without seeing them become something is where learning can start feeling pointless. The course moves you toward real crochet and amigurumi projects, so you're learning the technique while seeing it turn into something you made yourself.

What if I buy it and realise crochet just isn't for me?+

That's okay too. You shouldn't have to convince yourself to love something just because you paid for it. Go through the lessons, actually try the process, and see how it feels. The course comes with a 60-day guarantee, so you have room to genuinely try it rather than deciding from the outside whether crochet is for you.

Stop watching other people crochet. Learn to make it yourself.

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