Welcome back to crochet! Whether you learned recently or when you were younger, this course is for you. We will go over the basics to re-learn or refresh foundational skills. If you have never picked up a crochet hook before, please take Level 0.
You will learn several stitches as well as some helpful general skills by crocheting a cowl.
The necessary materials and pattern are included in the cost of the course and will be provided to you in the first class.
Run Time
4 sessions x 1.5 hours.
Project
Foggy Morning Cowl by Tanis McNally-Dawes. See our project on Ravelry.
Skills Taught
- Chain, single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet
- Concept of gauge
- Starting rows with each type of stitch, keeping edges straight
- Common abbreviations
- Stitch recognition
- Following a written pattern
- Joining a new ball
- Weaving in ends
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Slip stitch seam
Skills Required
- Know how to hold a crochet hook
- Chain
Materials Provided
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Foggy Morning Cowl by Tanis McNally-Dawes. Also available through your Beehive customer account.
- 3 balls of Drops Nepal. Yarn provided may not be the same colour as pictured.
- 5.5 mm (US I-9) crochet hook
- Tapestry needle
- 3 locking stitch markers
- Resources page
Supplies to Purchase
Lesson Plan
Class 1
- How to hold a hook and tension yarn
- Chain, single crochet
- How to keep edges straight
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Homework: Practice stitches learned
Class 2
- Refresh on skills learned in previous class
- Half double crochet, double crochet
- Intro to pattern reading
- Start project
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Homework: Work until the end of the first ball of yarn
Class 3
- How to join a new ball
- Discussion of importance of gauge and swatching
- Continue project
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Homework: Work until the end of the second ball of yarn
Class 4
- Finish project
- Slip stitch seaming
- Weaving in tails
