Workshops
Knitting and crochet workshops
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Learn to Crochet: Flowers and Spheres
Crochet is the new knitting! Learn how in this two-part beginner’s workshop and leave with a wonderfully versatile skill.
*Colourful wools and crochet hook included
*Take away patterns and instructions provided
*No previous crochet experience needed.
Session 1:
*Learn to comfortably hold the hook and the yarn
*Create double crochet, half treble, treble, double treble, and slip stitches.Session 2:
*Use what you’ve learned to create more elaborate flowers or embark on spheres, the practical building blocks for many other projects. You’ll take away instructions for everything!NOTE: Be prepared do to a bit of homework between the two sessions to help the new techniques become second nature to you.
Want to learn more? This class serves as a prerequisite to our Not Your Granny’s Squares workshop.
- Level: Beginner
- Teacher: Catherine Hirst
- Course length: Two 2.5-hour sessions
- Next date(s):
- Saturday 18 February, 10:30am—1:00pm
- Saturday 25 February, 10:30am—1:00pm
- Fee: £69.00
- Availability: 4 places left
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Learn to knit: Cozy wrist warmers
If you’ve always wanted to learn to knit, this class is for you! In this two-session class, you’ll learn the fundamentals: casting on, knit, purl, increasing, decreasing, casting off and binding knitted pieces together. You’ll use your new skills to create a pair of cozy wrist warmers!
Please note that there will be homework between classes.
All instruction and materials provided, including your choice of luxurious DK yarn yarn in a wide variety of colours, a pair of high-quality bamboo knitting needles, yarn needle, plus an instructional handout with stitch guide.
- Level: Absolute beginner
- Teacher: Catherine Hirst
- Course length: Two 2.5-hour sessions
- Next date(s):
- Tuesday 21 February, 6:30pm—9:00pm
- Tuesday 28 February, 6:30pm—9:00pm
- Fee: £86.00
- Availability: 6 places left
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Not Your Granny's Crochet Squares
Join us for a modern take on the ‘granny square’! You’ll fashion classic crochet building blocks that form the foundation for handbags, headbands, place mats, blankets – even bunting!
You’ll learn to crochet in the round, create lace techniques, use new crochet stitches, plus learn techniques to attach two or more pieces of crochet. Choose from 4-5 different patterns then take away instructions so you can continue hooking at home! All materials provided, including hook and assorted yarns.
PLEASE NOTE: This is not an absolute beginner’s workshop. You should be able to make a simple chain, plus be familiar with double crochet, half treble, treble, double treble, and slip stitches before coming to class. We do not teach the basic stitches in this workshop. To learn them, try our Crocheted Fashion Accessories class.
- Level: Intermediate
- Teacher: Catherine Hirst
- Course length: One 3.5-hour session
- Next date(s):
- Thursday 22 March, 6:30pm—10:00pm
- Fee: £45.00
- Availability: 7 places left
