Introduction to Crochet

With only a simple hook and some yarn, you can create flat or shaped textiles that become garments, rugs, vessels, or sculptures. In this comprehensive yet playful 2-day class, you will learn the foundation skills of starting a crochet project, building cloth, and the 6 basic stitches — chain, single, half-double, double, and triple crochet, and slip stitch — that make up every classic and radical stitch pattern. Once we are comfortable with the stitches and techniques, we can begin to explore added elements like shaping (both flat and dimensional), working in the round, holes or negative space, textured stitch combinations, striping and color work. We will start with a sampler of stitches and techniques, which could be used as a freeform scarf or wall hanging, and then as skills progress, you will have options to begin a hat, shawl or other forms to continue exploring possibilities. Crochet can be soft or rigid, hole-y or dense, lacy or plain, textured or smooth, curved or straight, wavy or flat, loose or tight, and these qualities are determined by the fiber, stitch, tool, hand and brain of the maker. We will play and improvise and learn from each other’s experiments and be surprised to see what results!

Workshops run from 9:00am to 5:00pm each day
Lunch is included for all participants