crAFTER Design Lab

Crochet Garment Academy is the flagship learning pathway inside crAFTER Design Lab.

Designed for garment-loving crocheters of all skill levels, it helps you build the knowledge and confidence needed to create garments that fit beautifully and actually get worn.

Inside You'll Learn:

Garment Foundations

Taking accurate body measurements
Understanding ease
Choosing the correct size
Reading garment schematics

Yarn & Fabric

Fibre selection
Drape and fabric behaviour
Yarn substitution
Swatching for success

Gauge

How to swatch correctly
Troubleshooting gauge issues
Why gauge matters more than you think

Construction

Top-down garments
Bottom-up garments
Seamed construction
Seamless construction

Customisation

Length adjustments
Sleeve adjustments
Neckline modifications
Creating a better fit

Handmade Wardrobe Planning

Choosing projects you'll actually wear
Building a cohesive wardrobe
Making crochet part of your everyday style

It's time to stop guessing and start creating crochet garments you'll actually love to wear.

Welcome to crAFTER Design Lab — the ad-free crochet membership designed to help you build garment-making confidence, improve your skills, and create projects that fit, flatter and get worn.

For just $7 per month, you'll get immediate access to:

• Crochet Garment Academy – your step-by-step pathway to understanding fit, ease, gauge, yarn choice, construction and customisation.

• 230+ crochet patterns – including garments, accessories, home décor and more, with new patterns added regularly.

• Crochet classes and tutorials – practical lessons designed to help you learn new skills, solve common crochet challenges and grow your confidence.

• Exclusive member-first access to new pattern releases – all new patterns are added to the Lab before they're released anywhere else.

• A supportive crochet community – connect with fellow crocheters who share your passion for creating beautiful handmade pieces.

• Member-driven content – submit your questions, struggles and ideas to help shape future tutorials, lessons and resources.

Why join crAFTER Design Lab?

Because creating garments that fit shouldn't feel overwhelming. Because understanding gauge, ease and customisation can save you hours of frustration and frogging.

Because finding trustworthy crochet resources shouldn't mean battling endless ads, pop-ups and distractions.

And because your handmade garments deserve to be finished, worn and loved.

Unlike crowded websites filled with interruptions, crAFTER Design Lab is 100% ad-free.

No pop-ups.

No distractions.

Just a calm, focused space where you can learn, create and enjoy your crochet.

For less than the cost of a coffee each week, you'll have everything you need to build your skills, grow your confidence and create garments you'll be proud to wear.

Meet Veronika – Your Crochet Rebel with a Hook!

Veronika isn’t just a crochet designer—she’s a crochet rule-breaker, stitch whisperer, and all-around yarn magician!

With an eye for modern design and a brain that’s always buzzing with new ideas, she’s on a mission to shake up the crochet world, one stitch at a time. She’s here to help knowledge-thirsty crocheters bulldoze their way through tricky techniques like a hot knife through butter (or, you know, like super-sharp scissors through thread).

With her patterns, tutorials, techniques, and online courses, you’ll go from "Wait… what?" to "NAILED IT!" in no time!

Her specialty? Timeless, wear-anywhere crochet fashion—the kind that never goes out of style. Think effortlessly chic, not “grandma’s attic” (unless grandma was a total fashion icon).

You might have seen her work in Inside Crochet, Simply Crochet, Crochet Now, Happily Hooked, or some other cool corner of the internet.

And guess what? You can join the crochet revolution, too!

So grab your hook, some yarn, and maybe a snack (crochet marathons require fuel).

Let’s conquer the crochet world together! #OneStitchAtATime