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I'm Laura -- your village tinkering artist. A crocheter, I also draw and dabble in photography with my smart phone as a camera. I'm inspired by history and the utilitarian nature of heritage craft.I've been crocheting for over 25 years, and while I've still much to learn, I want to share it's practicality and simplicity with others; so I'm creating simple video tutorials on Youtube & publishing them to Patreon in order to teach the craft as I myself continue learning🧶👁️‍🗨️

Laura Weiller, the owner and author of this site faces the camera. She is wearing a pair of glasses, the rims of which have cat ears on them. There's some partially crocheted, multi-colored yarn with stitch markers down the edge of it in her left hand, whi

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Laura Weiller, the owner and author of this site faces the camera. She is wearing a pair of glasses, the rims of which have cat ears on them. There's some partially crocheted, multi-colored yarn with stitch markers down the edge of it in her left hand, whi

Laura Weiller is a crocheter & artist from the Appalachian region

Forever creative, Laura has spent years honing a variety of crafts and artistic pursuits in addition to crochet. She refers to herself as a Tinkering Artist because she could never pick just one thing to do. The world is much too fascinating for that ✨

Adopted at birth, Laura is recently in reunion with her biological relatives. She runs a Discord server created by and for adoptees seeking community with similar backgrounds.She lives with her husband and parents on a garden variety farm in the Appalachian foothills of rural Georgia in the US.

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The Patreon tiers are designed with affordability and simplicity in mind. My least expensive tier offers access to my pattern drafts as well as instructional videos. My highest tier offers a little more behind the scenes, such as my photo journals and personal updates.

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W.I.P. stands for "work in progress". My wips can often be found on Patreon or Youtube where I'll be sharing tutorials on a near-weekly basis.

Most of the beginner tutorials will be in the shorts playlist on Youtube, but this video is an excellent place to start if you're a beginner crocheter.