Barbara Van Elsen

Teaches at Brooklyn Brainery

Barbara is a lifelong crocheter who, when she could find no advanced crochet classes in NYC, founded the New York City Crochet Guild in 2001. Since then, she’s taken a whole lot of classes and taught classes from beginners to freeformers from the East Coast to the West. She was also thrilled to have organized the NY Reef of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, parts of which just left the Smithsonian (http://crochetcoralreef.org/).