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Crochet - For Beginners
We are excited to have the very talented Mel from Loved Handmade to teach our first crochet course at The Craft Sessions.
Teacher: Mel Tonzing
Description: Ever wanted to try crochet but not sure where to start? This is the class where we learn the basics - we will be using the three basic crochet stitches; chain stitch, double crochet, treble crochet.
Materials: You will need to bring yarn (I like to use string or rustic garden twine), 4.50mm crochet hook, tapestry needle, a glass jar (I like to use the medium moccona coffee jar) approx. 11cm high x 26cm in diameter. Similar sized jars will just make it a little bit more consistent when counting our stitches, but any medium sized jar will be suitable. Mel will provide wire for jar handles.
Takeaway: By the end of this session we will complete a single jar cover and tea light jar to take home.
Level: Complete beginner
Workshop Length: Half Day
So I wrote last week a post asking “Is my making fast fashion?”. And then I did a video on Instagram discussing similar topics in a slightly different way. And as always, you lovely humans have helped me clarify some of my thinking with your thoughtful, clever commentary.
And while I think there is so much more to discuss, here are four key possibly-more-meta ideas that have come up for me out of those conversations.
In using the quote last week that suggested that there was no single answer, and suggesting that this was freeing, I really did mean that we should sit in the grey. Not that the lack of “an” answer to this question should mean we get to ignore the question but rather that the lack of “an” answer means that we need to keep asking bigger more beautiful questions. And keep asking them.
Is my making fast fashion?
Am I living my values or merely thinking them?
And how can I make those two things a little more aligned in this moment?
These are my big beautiful questions.
Yours might be different.
And importantly this leads to point 2.