You must earn gold coins to up credits and level. For DIY.1 your credits must be 26. Credits you need increase most high level you are.
For earn money (gold coins), you must use the forum, publishing new posts (+20 gold coins) or asking existed posts (+ 5 gold coins). When you publish 10 asks, you earn 1 credit and 5 gold coins for each one.
DIY.1 requires 26 credits. Go on!!
I forgot to tell you about Tasks.
Up at rigth, you can see white button My Center. Inside, you can see some buttons. In "Task" you can earn each hour 5 gold coing pushing in Everybody bonus. When you got level 1 or more, you could earn gold coins acording to your level each hour.
I have about a dozen patterns crochet to upload. I've researched and there not on here... Where exactly do I go to load them? I'm really not dumb but I just keep clicking and clicking and not finding right spot!