Learn to Crochet Class – Thursdays 10.00am-12pm (over 4 weeks).
Spring is a time of new beginnings and growth. With longer days, it is the perfect time to learn a new skill, with restorative and mindful benefits.
Focusing your mind and hands on repetitive stitches for a period of time takes you somewhere calm, much like meditation. When you crochet, you have to slow down, and with that anxiety recedes as you become focused on what your hands are doing.
This workshop is perfect for absolute beginners, or for those who can crochet a little but want to gain more confidence.
Open to all parents of pre-crawling babies, with a dedicated space for babies to kick around and relax, but we will stop and start according to the needs of everyone in the group. In these relaxed sessions, you’ll not only learn a new skill but have time to chat and connect with other local mums at a similar phase of parenting to you.
This class will teach the basic stitches and techniques, practicing those stitches by making swatches. Skills and techniques are built upon each week at an unhurried pace, along with learning to read and follow basic patterns and visual charts, some abbreviations and terminology.
You will leave with the skills to continue your crochet journey with curiosity, and with a powerful tool for accessing a deep sense of calm.
What we will cover:
Week 1: Making a slip knot and making chains. Holding the hook and yarn to get the right tension. Double crochet stitch, making a swatch.
Week 2: Half treble and treble stitch, making stripes and changing colour.
Week 3: Granny squares, basic pattern reading, and looking at simple baby accessories to start.
Week 4: A recap of the stitches and techniques covered. Fastening off, looking at simple patterns to begin, and yarns suitable for them.
*Price includes materials, (yarn and needles), and printed worksheets.
Where:
One of Six Cabin, Studio 12, 259a High Street, Walthamstow, E17 7BH
Places are limited to 6 to allow one-to-one support.
When:
Thursday March 5th, 12th, 19th & 26th from 10am – 12pm. Doors open at 9.30am to give time to settle in with babies and get comfortable.
The class is 2 hours over four weeks for a total of 8 hours tuition.
Classes are held in the One of Six Cabin, opposite Walthamstow Library. It is a bright and airy studio located just a 3 minute walk from Walthamstow Central. The entrance is on Cleveland Park Avenue, just along the side of Popeyes.
There is a toilet, sink and tea and coffee making facilities. The cabin does not have step-free access so if you’d like to bring a buggy it would need to be carried up a flight of stairs and some small steps leading to the cabin. Slings would be preferred but there is room for buggies if needed.
Include your phone number when booking in case I need to contact you. Emails sometimes end up in spam folders.
Accessibility: If you have mobility concerns, please contact me, I’m happy to help.
You may find it helpful to bring a pen or pencil to make your own notes on the printed worksheets that accompany the workshop, or in a small notebook, as often these notes are really helpful when you’re working at home between classes.
If you buzz no. 12, I will let you in. Walk up the stairs and go left at the top, through to the door at the end to the outside. Follow the path round to the right of the building until you see the cabin. There are small stairs along the way.
Tutor:
Theodora Burrow is a knitwear designer with years of experience in both knitting and crochet. She has taught adults and children to knit and crochet and is passionate about the incredible mental health benefits of making. She designs for UK and international magazines and yarn companies and has lived in Walthamstow for more than 20 years.
*Photograph by Leanne Jade Photography. Refresher Blanket by Theodora Burrow for Inside Crochet Magazine.
