Frequently Asked Questions

Not at all! Crochet is one of the most beginner-friendly crafts you can pick up. With the right kit and step-by-step video guidance, most people finish their first character in a weekend. Our starter kits come with everything you need, no experience required.

Yes, several. Every lesson page has a free demo of the first round, and in the Yon Crochet app the Magic Ring and Round 1 of Linda, Pug, Chuck, Spadina and Tango are free to try, so you can see the teaching style before you buy. Our free crochet tools need no account at all. And the Pattern Trainer, free in the app, teaches you to read crochet patterns, the skill most video tutorials skip, in short lessons across two units: reading a single round, then reading a whole multi-piece pattern.

Yes. Our free crochet tools work on any phone or computer, with no sign-up: a row counter, an increase and decrease calculator, gauge and yarn calculators, a hook size chart, the US and UK abbreviations, a yarn weight chart, a color palette and a pricing calculator. They are the same tools you find in the Yon Crochet app.

Yes. Every left-hand lesson is the full lesson mirrored, so the hook sits in the left hand on screen and the yarn feeds the way it will in yours. Every character, all nine of them, ships with a full left-hand version at no extra cost. Tap the handedness toggle inside the lesson player to switch anytime.

Amigurumi is the Japanese craft of crocheting small stuffed characters. The word combines ami (crocheted) and nuigurumi (stuffed doll). In practice it means working single crochet in a tight spiral to build rounded three-dimensional shapes, rather than the flat rows you would use for a scarf or a blanket.

It is a good place to start as a beginner because a finished piece is small, it uses only a handful of stitches, and a recognisable character emerges within the first hour. Every Yon character is an amigurumi project.

Less than you might think. For amigurumi you need a crochet hook (4 to 5mm suits worsted weight yarn), a smooth medium-weight yarn, polyester stuffing, safety eyes, stitch markers to keep your place in a spiral, and a blunt needle for sewing pieces together.

Every Yon kit arrives with all of it matched and measured, so there is nothing to source or guess at. If you already have your own supplies you can skip the kit entirely and use the free Pattern Trainer in the Yon Crochet app or buy a standalone lesson.

You can crochet a small character in 1–2 hours once you know the basics. Most beginners are confident with the core stitches within a few days of casual practice. Every beginner lesson starts from absolute zero and teaches all 14 core amigurumi skills, so you go from first stitch to finished character in one project.

A smooth, medium-weight yarn that is easy to see and forgiving of mistakes. That is exactly why every Yon Crochet kit comes with Yon Yarn: a soft 68% cotton / 32% nylon blend, pre-matched in the exact colours your character needs, so there is no guesswork involved.

Every kit includes pre-cut yarn in the exact colours you need, a crochet hook, a blunt needle, stuffing, and a safety eyes set. Everything is matched and measured: just open the box and start crocheting. Access to the companion video lesson is included with every kit purchase, in both right-hand and left-hand versions, and every kit ships with a free keychain of its character tucked in the box.

Four things. First, the yarn: every kit includes premium Yon Yarn, a soft 68% cotton and 32% nylon blend with no split ends, so your hook glides instead of snagging. Second, the head start: beginner kits come with the magic ring already started for you, so you skip the hardest first step in amigurumi. Third, the lessons: every character has a step-by-step video lesson in both right-hand and left-hand versions, with multilingual captions and dubs. And fourth, the world: each character has its own personality and story in the Yon World universe, and you earn Yon Coins as you learn that you can spend on your next kit or a new lesson.

No. Kit owners get their character's video lesson automatically, but you can also buy standalone video lessons for any character, or join Yon Plus to unlock them all. And if you already own a hook and worsted weight yarn, the Pattern Trainer in the Yon Crochet app is free and needs no purchase at all.

Five seasonal sets of little pieces that dress up a character: Linda’s Witch Night (witch hat, cape, broom, cauldron and potion bottle), Pug’s Ghost Walk (ghost cloak, jack-o’-lantern, little lantern, candle and wrapped candy), Spadina’s Tomb Trail (mummy wrap, skull, tomb vase and treasure map), Chuck’s Vampire Ball (top hat, vampire cape, goblet and coffin) and Tango’s Reaper Watch (reaper cloak, little ghost, scythe and spell book). Each piece is a short add-on lesson, and each one stands alone.

Every piece is sold two ways. Lesson only is $5: the video and the written pattern, yours for life, with no materials, so you use your own yarn. Mini kit is $8: the same lesson plus the yarn for that piece, posted to you. Either way, the lesson is yours the moment you buy.

Each set also comes as a bundle. A kit bundle puts the character’s full crochet kit and every mini kit of the set in one box: $60 for Linda’s and Pug’s (bought one by one, $80) and $55 for Spadina’s, Chuck’s and Tango’s ($72). A video-only bundle has the character’s full lesson and every piece’s lesson, with no materials: $33 for Linda’s and Pug’s, $30 for the others. Every Halloween lesson is also included with Yon Plus. You can find the minis under Digital lessons and the bundles under Halloween bundles.

We currently ship to Canada and the United States from our Ontario studio. Within Canada, shipping is a flat $5.95 CAD and free on orders over $40 CAD, typically arriving in 2–9 business days. US orders also ship free over $40 CAD; checkout shows the threshold in US dollars at the day’s rate.

Nine characters today, and the cast keeps growing. Think of it as one skill path in two tiers. The beginner tier is the five kit characters, Linda the Bunny, Pug the Dog, Chuck the Duck, Spadina the Red Panda, and Tango the Flamingo: it starts from absolute zero and assumes you have never held a hook. The intermediate tier is Rocky the Earth, Echo the Bat, Rin the Raindrop, and Button the Mushroom: it layers on new techniques such as colour changes, embroidery, front and back loop work, split single crochet, bubble stitch, double crochet, and multi-piece assembly.

Whichever character you pick, the lesson teaches the same 14 core amigurumi skills, so any of them works as a first project. What changes is what that character adds on top. The Digital lessons collection shows the current cast with each character’s level, alongside the Halloween minis. Character lessons are $14.99 each, the Halloween add-on lessons are $5 each, and all of them are included with Yon Plus.

They teach the two halves of crochet. The free Pattern Trainer in the Yon Crochet app teaches literacy: how to read written crochet notation, so a line like “Rnd 3. [sc, inc] x 6 (18)” reads as a sentence instead of a code. The video lessons teach technique: what your hands actually do, filmed stitch by stitch.

Most tutorials only ever teach the second half, which is why so many people can follow along with a video but freeze the moment they open a written pattern. Pattern literacy is what lets you use any designer’s work, not just ours. You can do them in either order, though starting with the trainer costs nothing.

Every Yon lesson teaches this same foundation, so you are never guessing whether a lesson covers the basics: holding a hook and yarn, the magic ring, single crochet, increase, decrease, invisible fasten off, hiding the yarn tail, counting the stitch, counting the round, right and wrong side, attaching the eyes, sewing, stuffing, and closing the piece.

Together they are everything you need to take a plushie from first stitch to finished. Anything a character adds beyond these is a bonus technique, listed on that lesson.

A lesson you buy outright is yours for life, with no time limit and no renewal. Each one also comes with a downloadable written pattern alongside the video, so you can work from either. Yon Plus works differently: it unlocks the whole library while your membership is active, and your coins and progress carry over if you cancel and resubscribe later.

Yon Plus is our membership. One membership unlocks every Yon character, a whole library of step-by-step video lessons including the Halloween minis, Yon World stories, PDF patterns, and first access to every new character drop. Three plans: $20 a month, $52 for three months, or $180 for a year. Cancel anytime; your coins and progress carry over if you resubscribe. You can join on the website or in the Yon Crochet app.

Log in to your Yon Crochet account (use the same email you checked out with) and open Skool from the menu. Your lessons sit on the adventure map there, one character at a time, with your progress and pattern PDFs beside them; each lesson opens in the lesson player. You can also sign in to the Yon Crochet app with the same email and your lessons are already there. If you don't see a lesson you bought, email us at support@yoncrochet.com with your order number.

Absolutely. The lesson player works in any browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and the Yon Crochet app for iPhone and Android plays the same lessons with your projects and a row counter beside them. Your progress saves automatically, so you can pick up right where you left off on any device.

Every launched lesson ships with captions and audio in English, French Canadian, and Vietnamese. You can switch language inside the lesson player, independently of whether you are watching the right-hand or left-hand version. Every product page also carries a free demo of the first round, so you can see the teaching style before you buy.

Yon World is the story universe every character comes from. They are not patterns with names attached: each one has a personality, a role, strengths, a weakness, and a goal, and their stories connect into a larger arc you can read on the Yon World page.

Linda the Bunny, for example, is a gentle dreamer learning that softness is a strength rather than a weakness. That is the character you are making when you crochet her, and it is why finishing a Yon project feels different from finishing an anonymous pattern.

Two ways. If you want the gentlest possible start, pick a level 1 character: it teaches the 14 core skills and adds nothing extra, so nothing competes for your attention. If you would rather be matched by personality, take the short quiz on Find Your Yon Character and it will point you to the character whose story fits you best.

Either way you are not locked in. Every lesson teaches the same foundation, so there is no wrong first character.

Every action earns you Yon Coins: checking in each day, completing your daily challenges, watching lessons, practice lessons, uploading your finished project, and more. Orders earn coins too: 1 coin for every $1 CAD you spend, added 14 days after the order. Each coin is worth 1 cent, and even more as you tier up from Bronze to Diamond.

Spend your coins at checkout on yoncrochet.com for money off your order, or in the Yon Crochet app, where coins can also unlock a lesson for good, give you 30 days of Yon Plus, or take money off kits and yarn in the app’s shop.

Log in and complete at least one activity each day to build your streak. Longer streaks earn bonus Yon Coins and unlock streak badges. Your streak resets if you miss a day, so try to check in daily!

Email us at support@yoncrochet.com and we'll get back to you within 1–2 business days. You can also call us at 705 413 3768 or reach us through the contact page.