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Upcycling with Crochet for Beginners

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Overview

Transform your wardrobe using basic crochet techniques
  • Introduction
  • How to Crochet
  • Design
  • What's Next for Your Slippers?
  • Final project
Reinvent the world around you with colorful patterns, and give new life to unused clothes through upcycling. Using simple crochet techniques, this course will give you the necessary knowledge to upgrade your unused garments into unique pieces of clothing. Upcycling champion Emma Friedlander Collins, better known as Steel and Stitch, shares her passion and talent for enhancing unwanted apparel into special favorites.

In this course, you will learn how to transform a pair of flip flops into cozy, contemporary slippers to jumpstart your upcycling adventure, and explore the multitude of possibilities that upcycling with crochet can bring to your wardrobe.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Influences
  • What We Will Do on the Course
  • Choosing Yarn
  • Choosing the Hooks and Other Tools
  • Chain and Slip Stitch
  • Double Crochet
  • Treble Crochet
  • Increasing and Decreasing
  • How Crochet Can Be Used for Upcycling
  • Choosing Colours
  • How to Read a Pattern
  • Making a Square - Part I
  • Making a Square - Part II
  • Making a Half Square
  • How to Prepare the Flip-Flop
  • Crochet into Flip-Flop
  • Stitching Everything Together!
  • Customise Your Flip-Flops
  • How to Care for Your Slippers
  • Introduction to Crochet

Taught by

Emma Friedlander-Collins

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