Such a decision by corporate to cut 3 key classes- jewelrymaking, scrapbooking, and cake decorating — spells restructure to me. Abby, I inquired about this exact thing renting out the craft room at my local Micheals about 2 years ago. I was interested in giving my own sewing classes there. They said yes. Not sure if this is a story by store decision. They do allow you to use the space! I have several friends have tried the route of teaching at Joanne craft some fabrics. Very unappreciative of their talents and like a former commentor said, unappreciative of how they are probably attracting customers purchasing supplies on a regular basis.

I think the only reason to teach somewhere like a Michaels is to get leads for your business. However when I was teaching at Joanns it was frowned upon for me to get their email address. I can see how some store managers would see that as a conflict of interest. It seemed so ridiculous that it was being managed from a binder. Like we have computers! It would just be so much easier if that instructor could log in online and even contact the students from within the Michaels system.

I would be interested to know if instructors get a discount on product. That might be an additional incentive for some people. One significant difference is that knit and crochet instructors at JoAnn are independent contractors rather than part-time employees. Michaels teachers do get their yarn for free and get a discount on other supplies.

Several of the instructors I spoke with told me that if they request yarn for making samples they get that yarn for free. If that is the case then the project made belongs to the store. But the item then belongs to the store. And we are not paid for making the sample projects. However the samples are no longer required. Michaels instructors with the exception of Wilton instructors are Michaels employees.

All Michaels employees have had a criminal background check, which is paid for by the company. Instructors are not to make samples on their own time with store use yarn, as that would be in conflict with labor laws. Hi Sarah, None of the instructors I spoke with who were teaching at Michaels but not working there at other times had a criminal background check. In that hiring application process exists a mandatory background check. I went through my hiring papers from mid just now and yes, there was a background check.

All I do at Michaels is teach, btw. Any yarn project prepared for classes remains accounted for in the classrom. Hi Abby! However, now I use clear, acid free, sheet protector pages, which are also available at Michaels, in scrapbooking, and you can cut them with a paper trimmer, also at Michaels. It is for the protective photo sleeves that keep dust off of the photos. Everything was practically in the store, so the customer had a one stop shopping experience, plus, it was new to me, seeing if people wanted to make my product, as I was being requested by customers and potential customers, wondering if I offered patterns to download.

The company paid for the background check, then.

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Well, because of snowstorms, I would have to constantly reschedule, and the only 2 who signed up were a mother daughter team. They only gave me a week notice on the event. We were separate from the employees, but part of the employees, no concrete sense of separation. They made it seem like you were an employee, but not an employee, like a contracted player. And we did it on our time, but during store hours. They even gave us too much leeway with displays. Its a formula to follow, step by step type of thing. No, I had to put up a display with my college renderings, one with a Hepplewhite piano and shield back chair bench, which in hindsight, probably scared the average person from wanting to try it.

I thought that by having this, that this type of class would help someone who wanted to be able to see their rooms in their homes, in helping them determine layout, design, colors, etc. I figured that it would give them a start, and that maybe we could build on that, rendering, more complex pieces, etc. I can say I will give Michaels credit, that they were more open to creative people like us, than other craft stores, to give us an outlet to show others how we do things, I will say that. I just wish that the communication between class coordinator and management were better. Oh, and then, the class coordinator from their other store, 35 minutes away, called me up, wanting me to teach there.

I was very thankful that Michaels gave us that opportunity, but we also need support from staff. And, when people switch jobs in retail, they are going into jobs because of retail experience, not so much because of the product that that store sells. Many a times, people working in craft stores in management may not be crafters themselves.

So I understand where staff is coming from, when they are overwhelmed, maybe not getting the support that they need from corporate. That is where corporate needs to step in. They need to supply the store managers and staff with maybe regional managers to help the class coordinators, give the class coordinators more responsibility and also more money and perks, to make this class instructor gig work better for them, the instructor, and the customer, the crafter wanting to take the class.

This, as well, helps the manufacturers make money as well. Its leapfrogging or piggybacking, with partnering connections, in a way. I honestly went into trying out to become an instructor as an extension of my business, another outlet to show my work, and try to show that others can do it, because customers were asking me to do something along those lines, and I feel that there are lots of other people out there that need their creativity to be nurtured.

And companies like Michaels needs to embrace that aspect of what they are trying to do. Thanks Abby!

Kristie Hubler fabricatedframes. I am an instructor at michaels.

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I did not pay for it myself. As for the yarn, I had the choice of the store providing yarn for samples and keeping them, or purchasing my own yarn and having the samples to keep. I chose the latter so that I had control. My largest class was three students, and I had so many single-student classes that when they started the two-student, it was pretty much the end of my time there. I suspect that corporate is more focused on the retail business and not really catching the vision for how a little more attention and care for the classes could add to their customer base.

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I work at Micheals and had been teaching both crochet and beginning knitting per the request of my managers. To be honest, some of the projects at the time were also not current, and students wanted to make certain projects not in our curriculum. I was happy to try to oblige, but quickly found that anything other than scheduled projects were discouraged, and had to be approved.

When the new system and certification program was introduced as required through CYC, I immediately resigned as an instructor.

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Sadly with the new criteria, there was no incentive to teach, and the cost of certification too high to justify investment; especially since there are no guarantees of generating any reliable source of income. I can do better than that with their regular coupons, depending on the current sale. Thankfully yarn qualifies for coupons and discounts! When I first started teaching crochet, the stores wanted instructors to make samples and would provide store-use yarn, but the samples belonged to the store.

I taught from , I believe. I tried being an instructor in addition to being a regular part-time employee at the store while I was in college. There is a nominal fee. Oh really? That would be awesome. I wonder how they make the community aware of this? You have to ask. Free if you just want to borrow the space for 2 hrs. Maybe nor give our money or time to multi billion dollar corporations. Shop at independently owned art stores and keep the money in your community. Not about the mighty green back!