Teach one workshop. Grow your list. Get paid for it.
Record one workshop for a HobbyScool summit and you get in front of thousands of makers, keep every subscriber you earn, and take 50% of every sale you refer.
Apply to speak →Free to apply · No fee to speak · Applications reviewed year-round
Half of everything you refer is yours.
Most summits pay speakers in exposure. We pay in commission. Every attendee you send is cookied to you, and you earn on the pass, the add-ons, and the membership — not just the first sale.
| What your audience buys | Price | You earn |
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| All-Access VIP Pass — during the event | $37 | $18.50 |
| All-Access VIP Pass — after the early window | $47 | $23.50 |
| All-Access VIP Pass — after the event ends | $67 | $33.50 |
| Order bump Changes each event — example: Craft Project & Supplies Tracker | $9 | $4.50 |
| Upsell Changes each event — example: Ultimate Summit Bundle | $27 | $13.50 |
| Craft & Create Club — annual | $70 | $21.00 |
| Craft & Create Club — monthly | $7/mo | $2.10/mo |
50% commission on the pass, the order bump and the upsell. 30% on Craft & Create Club. The bump and upsell products change from event to event — the ones above are examples at typical price points. No earnings cap, no restrictions on how you promote.
Do the math on one buyer
One person takes the $37 pass, adds the $9 order bump, and grabs the $27 upsell. That single buyer pays you $36.50. If they also join Craft & Create Club for the year, you're at $57.50 from one person.
Now multiply that by the slice of your list that shows up. Across our summits we've processed 7,801 transactions and paid $126,077.28 in commissions to 313 partners. We keep the smaller half on purpose — the speakers who promote are the reason these events work.
Two ways your list grows — and you own every name.
We never hold your leads hostage. Attendees go straight to your landing page, opt in on your form, and land on your list.
1. Your free gift, in front of thousands
Your workshop streams free for 24 hours. Everyone who watches sees your free gift and clicks through to your page to claim it. Those subscribers are yours from the second they opt in — no sharing, no export request, no waiting.
2. A shelf life longer than the event
All-Access Pass buyers keep your workshop forever, and new buyers keep coming after the summit closes. Your gift link keeps working, which means your opt-ins keep trickling in long after the three days are over.
“My email list has grown by about 500 new readers. I couldn't be happier. And this group seems to be full of my ideal readers!”
Carol Ann Webster First-time HobbyScool speaker · Eco-Creative Summit
Four things on your plate. We handle the rest.
You are not building a funnel, writing promo copy, or wrangling tech. You record, you send, we run the event.
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Record one workshop
Pre-recorded, so no live nerves and no timezone math. Teach one project or one skill start to finish. We supply the video and a private audio version of your session to attendees.
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Bring a free gift and a landing page
A template, guide, pattern, mini-class — whatever earns an email address from a maker who just watched you teach. You host the page. You keep the list.
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Promote to your list during the promo window
We hand you plug-and-play email copy, social graphics, and your affiliate link. Send it, post it, and every sale that comes back through your link pays you.
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Optional: donate a premium bonus
Many speakers add a paid digital product to the All-Access Pass. It puts your best work in front of every buyer, and you can offer a pass-holders-only discount on your membership or app.
Ready to put your workshop in front of 7,000+ makers?
Applications are open year-round. Tell us your topic and we'll match you to the summit theme that fits.
Apply to speak →Takes about five minutes · No fee, ever
Know the audience before you pitch a topic.
These come from our subscriber data, not a guess. If your craft lands with this woman, your workshop will do well here.
Practically, that means an established hobbyist with time, her own home to make things for, and money to spend on supplies. She is not a beginner looking for a side hustle, and she is not in a hurry. Teach her something she can finish, assume she has done this before, and skip the "turn your craft into income" framing — that lands flat in this room. Figures verified by Kit Signals, September 2026.
We're selective, and we'd rather tell you why up front.
Our attendees expect real teaching, and our speakers expect a room full of buyers. Both of those depend on who we let in.
You're a strong fit if…
- You have at least 2,000 email subscribers
- You can produce a high-quality workshop — clear audio, good light, one project taught start to finish
- Your topic maps to one of our annual summit themes
- You'll promote the free summit to your list during the promo window
- You have a free gift and a landing page ready to collect opt-ins
We're probably not a fit if…
- You haven't built an email list yet
- Your session is a pitch with a little teaching bolted on
- You can't commit to the recording and promo deadlines
- You'd rather not email your list about the event
To be direct about it: the 50% commission exists because we expect you to promote. That's the whole trade. If that part isn't appealing, this won't be a good use of your time or ours.
Fifteen summits open right now. Find your theme.
Three days each, thirty workshops per event. We're filling the last three events of 2026 and all twelve of 2027. Open any card to see what we're looking for — then tell us where you fit.
Rest of 2026
Closing soonThree events left this year and we're actively filling them. These have the nearest recording deadlines — if you want to be on a HobbyScool stage in 2026, apply this month. See our full 2026 event calendar →
Our fall seasonal event, and the closest deadline on this page. We're looking for autumn projects with a concrete finish — something she makes and puts on the table, the door, or the mantel. If your craft has a fall version, this is the fastest way onto a HobbyScool stage.
- Fall wreaths, door hangers and porch decor
- Autumn table settings, runners and linens
- Pumpkin and gourd projects — painted, fabric, clay
- Harvest preserving: apple butter, pickling, drying
- Fall color palettes in paint, fiber and paper
- Cozy textiles — quilts, throws, chunky knits
- Candles, scent and autumn atmosphere
- Thanksgiving crafts and hosting projects
One of our strongest performers, running two years and clearing $20K both times. Holiday projects with a real finish line — she needs to make it, wrap it, and give it. Fast, achievable projects do better here than ambitious ones; everyone is short on time in November.
- Gifts you can make in a single evening
- Sewn gifts: pouches, aprons, hot pads
- Knit and crochet projects that finish fast
- Ornaments, wreaths and tree decor
- Kitchen gifts — mixes, infusions, treats
- Bath, body and self-care gifts
- Handmade gift wrap, tags and presentation
- Advent calendars and countdown projects
Our quietest event and deliberately so. December is slow, restful making — long projects, quiet techniques, evening craft. Pace your workshop for someone who is tired and wants to sit down with her hands busy, not someone chasing a deadline.
- Slow stitch and meditative hand sewing
- Knitting or crochet for the long winter haul
- Winter watercolor and quiet painting practice
- Evening craft — projects for the chair by the fire
- Journaling and reflective making
- Comfort baking and winter kitchen projects
- Cozy home textiles and soft furnishings
- Starting a project that takes all season
2027 Season
Booking nowAll twelve events confirmed. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis — we book several months ahead, so early applicants get considered for more events.
The year-opener. Our audience has just put the holidays away and wants this year to be different. Every workshop should end with something she has actually made or filled in — a bound journal, a painted board, a finished small project. Planning content only works here when it produces an artifact.
- The year in review spread — a one-page creative audit
- Finishing what you started: a system for the UFO pile
- Destashing without guilt: keep, sell, donate
- Photographing last year's makes
- Resetting your studio space for the new year
- Painted vision board — mixed media, not magazine clippings
- Building a creative planner from scratch
- The 12-project year: one make per month
- Habit tracking spreads for makers
- Budgeting for supplies without killing the joy
- A one-evening finish: the January small make
- Bookbinding your year journal
- A sampler to learn one new stitch
- Beginner gouache: a month of tiny paintings
- The 100 day project — how to actually finish
A brand-new theme for a genuinely different audience — the organizer, the archivist, the woman with forty years of photos in a closet. Scrapbooking lives here. Cardmaking and stamping do not; those belong in our June event. If you teach photo organizing, memory books, memoir, or family history, this is your room.
- Scanning prints, slides and negatives at home
- A folder system that survives you
- Culling 40,000 photos down to the ones that matter
- Repairing and restoring damaged prints
- Handling an inherited photo collection
- Modern pocket scrapbooking: fast pages, no guilt
- Heritage layouts — pairing old photos with story
- Journaling on the page: what to actually write
- Preserving ephemera: tickets, letters, recipes
- Archival basics — what actually damages paper
- Starting your family tree from nothing
- Interviewing your parents before it's too late
- Reading old handwriting and records
- Recipe keeping: preserving handwritten cards
- Turning family history into a printed book
One of our largest events, and the audience is distinct — they came for organizing, not crafting. Teach a system for a specific space or a specific problem. Vague "simplify your life" content underperforms badly here. Name the room, name the pile, solve it.
- The craft room reset
- Fabric storage you can actually see
- Yarn, thread and floss systems
- Small-space studios: the closet, the corner, the dining table
- Inventory — knowing what you own before you buy again
- Pantry systems for two people
- Closet editing after 50
- The paper pile: mail, bills, documents
- Downsizing — leaving the big house
- Digital clutter: files, photos, subscriptions
- Building a weekly home rhythm
- The home command center
- Decluttering with a reluctant spouse
- Sentimental items — the hardest category
- Making it stick past February
Replaces our old Eco-Creative Summit and drops the sustainability framing entirely. The thread is grow it, then make with it — concrete technique, no lecture. Day 3 is where we most need speakers, and it's the reason this event exists in its new form.
- Container gardening on a patio or balcony
- The cutting garden: flowers to harvest
- Raised beds for aging backs
- Dye plants — what to grow for color
- Kitchen herbs year-round
- Water bath canning for beginners
- Jams, jellies and butters
- Fermenting: kraut and pickles
- Herbal salves and balms
- Drying herbs and flowers
- Natural dyeing with kitchen scraps
- Botanical printing on fabric
- Pressed flower framed art
- Seed paper and plantable cards
- Beeswax wraps and botanical candles
One of our biggest events every year. The positioning is emotional, but every workshop inside teaches a concrete medium — that combination is exactly why it performs. Bring a real technique. The feeling is our job; the skill is yours.
- Watercolor for absolute beginners
- Loose florals in watercolor
- Gouache — the forgiving medium
- Alcohol ink on tile and ceramic
- Color mixing without fear
- Modern calligraphy basics
- Pen and ink botanicals
- Block printing by hand
- Gelli plate printing
- Sketchbook practice: drawing what's in front of you
- Paper collage: composition basics
- Image transfer techniques
- Encaustic without special equipment
- Assemblage from found objects
- Framing and finishing your work
A brand-new event and one of the deepest speaker pools we've ever recruited for. If you teach stamping, die-cutting, bookbinding, junk journaling, or art journaling, we want to hear from you. Keep projects non-holiday — our November event owns Christmas.
- Clean and simple card design
- Stamping basics: ink, pressure, layering
- Interactive cards — sliders, pop-ups, spinners
- Die-cutting without a machine
- Card batching: 20 cards in an afternoon
- Junk journal foundations — what goes in one
- Pamphlet, saddle and coptic binding
- Altered books: cutting into a real book
- Aging and distressing paper
- Pockets, tucks and tags
- Art journaling for people who can't draw
- Sourcing and making your own ephemera
- Collage backgrounds and layers
- Handmade paper from scraps
- Paper flowers and rosettes
Strictly about making with tech — a machine, a file, a physical result. Our October event handles everything that isn't making, so keep your workshop tied to something she produces and holds.
- Cricut for absolute beginners
- Design Space without the frustration
- Vinyl projects: mugs, signs, shirts
- Print then cut
- Sublimation basics
- Canva for crafters
- Procreate for beginners
- Making your own cut files
- Turning hand art into digital files
- Fonts, files and licensing in plain English
- Photographing your work with a phone
- Lighting a craft photo without a studio
- Filming a simple process video
- Setting up a home filming corner
- Building a simple portfolio site
Positioned for the woman coming back to her craft after a summer of gardening, grandkids and travel. Fiber-led, with a clay and color day to close. Foundational teaching does especially well here — assume she's rusty, not new.
- Your first quilt block
- Rotary cutting and accurate seams
- English paper piecing by hand
- Knitting cast-on to bind-off
- Punch needle for beginners
- Sewing machine confidence
- Reading a pattern
- Hand embroidery starter stitches
- Needlepoint for beginners
- Bag making from scratch
- Polymer clay basics
- Hand-building without a kiln
- Clay jewelry and beads
- Macramé foundations
- Paper quilling
Our largest event of the year. New for 2027: a full day on visible mending and repair — sashiko, boro, darning, denim. If you teach repair, this is the one to apply for. Days 1 and 3 run as usual.
- Needle felting basics
- Spinning on a drop spindle
- Rug hooking
- Basket weaving
- Dyeing yarn at home
- Sashiko — the running stitch that fixes everything
- Boro: layered patching
- Darning a sock, darning a sweater
- Patching denim with intention
- Repairing quilts and heirloom textiles
- Woodburning
- Beginner woodworking with hand tools
- Charm jewelry and keepsake bracelets
- Candle and soap making
- Leather small goods
Not a making event — this one covers everything around the making. The tone matters more than the topic: our audience is 45+ and mostly skeptical. One tool, one task, one result per workshop. No jargon, no hustle framing, no "10x your output." If you can teach a nervous beginner one useful thing without making her feel behind, apply.
- What AI actually is, in plain English
- Your first ten minutes with a chatbot
- Asking better questions — prompting without jargon
- What it gets wrong and how to catch it
- Privacy: what not to type in
- Planning a project start to finish
- Sorting and tagging your photos
- Yardage, scaling and conversions
- Generating color palettes
- Transcribing handwritten recipes and patterns
- Product descriptions that sound like you
- Titling and tagging for Etsy search
- Writing a simple newsletter
- Pricing your work — doing the math
- Keeping your voice: editing so it sounds human
One of our strongest performers, running three years now. New for 2027: a full day on holiday baking and sugar arts. If you teach cookie decorating, candy, or holiday baking, this is a first-time opening. All cardmaking has moved to our June event — please don't pitch cards here.
- Gifts you can make in an evening
- Sewn gifts: zip pouches, aprons, hot pads
- Knit and crochet gifts that finish fast
- Handmade gift wrap, tags and presentation
- Batch making and shipping handmade safely
- Ornaments from scraps
- Wreath making
- The holiday table
- Advent calendars
- Holiday quilts, runners and linens
- Royal icing basics — getting the consistency right
- Decorated sugar cookies for beginners
- Gingerbread houses that don't collapse
- Candy making: fudge, brittle, truffles
- Cookie boxes and tins — packaging a bake to gift
Our quietest event and deliberately so. December leans into slow, restful making — long projects, quiet techniques, evening craft. Pace your workshop for someone who is tired and wants to sit down with her hands busy, not someone chasing a deadline. Goal setting and year-planning content belongs in our January event, not here.
- Slow stitch as meditation
- Knitting something simple and long
- Winter watercolor
- Candlelit craft: evening projects
- Making a cozy corner
- Hand-sewn hot water bottle covers and wraps
- Comfort baking for one afternoon
- A hand-stitched project you can do by firelight
- Simple weaving with chunky yarn
- Winter botanicals: dried arrangements indoors
- Starting a project that takes all winter
- A hand-pieced quilt block a week
- Cross stitch and counted work for the long haul
- Building a hand-work basket you keep by the chair
- Finishing well: blocking, pressing, presenting
Don't see your exact craft? Apply anyway. We add events throughout the year and we search our speaker database every time we build a new summit. Want to see how we run an event before you apply? Grab a free seat at the next one.
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What speaking here actually did for their business.
“It was such an honor to be part of the HobbyScool event, and the event was a great success! I got between 150–200 new subscribers at last count.”
Christie Etter Digital Creator & Coach, Etter Creations
“I always walk away from the event inspired myself, but also having hundreds of new members to my audience who are engaged with my content. I will always say yes to being a part of the HobbyScool events!”
Madison Wetherill Cook at Home Mom
“I can honestly say that it helped to grow my email list exponentially. On top of that, I made some extra money as an affiliate.”
Robyn Reynolds OrganizedHarmonie
“The communication was excellent and they did all of the heavy lifting by providing all of the copy for email and social media. The attendees were amazing — not only did they market this event well, they had ENGAGED participants.”
Marie Jackson Owner, Organized Home
“Their onboarding process was so streamlined. From the plug & play email templates to the marketing materials, they really made everything as simple as they could.”
Elle Messenger Photographer, Elle Michele Photography
“I received great feedback from the attendees on my presentation and lots of new email subscribers.”
Heidi Baergen Art of Expression Summit speaker
“There was a significant surge in sign-ups for the freebie. I had a great time at the event — the communication, the professionalism, and the follow-up.”
Lisa Nice HobbyScool speaker
“The speaker support was excellent, with loads of great marketing resources and helpful prompting emails.”
Christine Burrows Christina's Crafts
“It was my first time participating in an art summit and it was an excellent experience. The team made it super seamless while still promoting the event to my audience.”
Jasmine Dhillon Artist & Blogger, Feeling Nifty
“This summit was an amazing platform to share my message, to gain more visibility, and most importantly, to really connect with the audience.”
Asta Jakubson Director, Asta Fashions
The questions speakers actually ask.
Fifteen of them. We're still filling our last three events of 2026 — Festive Fall in October, Elves' Workshop in November, and Create & Reflect in December — plus all twelve 2027 summits. The 2026 events have the nearest recording deadlines, so if you want to be on a stage this year, apply now. Open any card above to see what we're looking for, then name your preferred event on the application.
No. It's the opposite — we pay you to promote the free summit to your audience. With 50% commission on the All-Access Pass, most of the revenue from these events goes back to our speakers.
Yes, and they're yours directly. Attendees go to your landing page to redeem your free gift or premium bonus, so they opt in on your form and land on your list. We never gate your leads or make you request an export.
There's no cap and no restrictions on how you promote. What you earn depends on how many buyers your list sends and which products they take. One buyer taking the pass, the bump and the bundle is worth $36.50 to you. Across all our events we've paid out $126,077.28 in commissions to 313 partners.
No. Every workshop is pre-recorded and you submit it ahead of the event. Attendees watch it free during a 24-hour window, and we provide both the video and a private audio version of your session.
Please do. The workshops shown on each event card are examples of the kind of thing we're after, not a fixed menu. If your craft fits the day theme, pitch it — the strongest applications usually teach something we hadn't thought of.
Affiliate payouts go out after our money-back guarantee window closes on the event.
All-Access Pass holders have a full six months to redeem any resource included in the pass, so your digital resource needs to stay available to purchasers during that window.
There isn't one. We accept applications year-round and review them on a rolling basis, then reach out when we're building a summit that fits your expertise. We book several months ahead, so applying early puts you in the running for more events.
We review applications regularly and contact the speakers who fit an upcoming theme. If you don't hear from us right away it usually means your topic didn't match the summits we're currently building — your application stays in our speaker database, and we search it every time we plan a new event.
One workshop. One email to your list. Paid every time.
The application takes about five minutes and tells us your topic, your audience size, and what you'd teach.
Apply to speak →Free to apply · Reviewed year-round · No fee to speak, ever
- We review your application against the summits we're currently building.
- If your topic fits a theme, we reach out with dates and deadlines.
- If it doesn't fit yet, you stay in our speaker database for future events.