Classes by Stitch Diva Studios

Crochet Flower Workshop

The flowers in our Crochet Flower Collection make the perfect embellishments for hats, felted bags, ponchos, sweaters, baby blankets, scarves, wraps and more! We introduce 6 unique and eye-catching flower designs and then provide you with guidelines, tips and techniques to help you make these flowers with yarns in the gauge, texture and colors of your choosing.  Explore color texture, fiber texture and gauge to get radically different results with these little crochet projects done in the round and never be at a loss for the perfect project embellishment again! 

Required Skills:  Understand basic crochet:  chain, sc (single crochet), dc (double crochet)

Required Materials:  Tapestry Needle, Various size crochet hooks, a selection of different gauge yarns from your stash that you think would work well for flowers.

Required Purchase:  Crochet Flower Collection pattern by Stitch Diva Studios ($7)  (Purchase not required if student already owns the pattern)

Required Skills:  Understand basic knitting:  knit, purl, casting on and binding off

Required Materials:  Tapestry Needle, #13 Circular Needles, yarn for scarf

Required Purchase:  Decidedly Different Scarves pattern by Stitch Diva Studios ($7)  (Purchase not required if student already owns the pattern)

Floral Mini Poncho Workshop

Hands – on guidance with the Floral Mini Poncho crochet pattern.  We will cover tips and tricks for managing long crochet stitches, math required to resize the poncho to fit larger or smaller sizes, as well as some finishing tricks to perfect “saggy” flowers.

Required Skills:  Understand basic crochet:  chain, sc (single crochet), dc (double crochet)

Required Purchase:  Floral Mini Poncho pattern by Stitch Diva Studios ($7) (Purchase not required if student already owns the pattern)

Required Materials:  Tapestry Needle, Various crochet hooks, yarn for the mini poncho.

Exploring Tunisian Crochet:  Learn how to use this traditional technique in very untraditional ways. Using large hooks and modern yarns, create  fabrics that look woven instead of knit or crochet.  Tunisian crochet uses less yarn than standard crochet, and is considered by many to be a cross between knitting and crochet.  We will cover the basic stitches in Tunisian Crochet and view some FAST and EASY projects.  This technique was used in our Asymmetric Poncho Pattern, Outerwear Corset Pattern,  PillowTalk Exploration Collection and in our Decidedly Different Scarves.

Required Skills:  Understand basic crochet:  chain, sc (single crochet), dc (double crochet)

Required Materials:  Various hooks will be provided for your use during class by the instructor.  Please bring at least 3 coordinating bulky weight (any yarn  including ribbons  that yields gauge of 2.5 sts/inch or less), including a smooth, non-variegated bulky-weight yarn.  (Crochet hooks will be provided for your use in the class).

Mini Flower Workshop:  Receive hands-on instruction on how to do our Dusty Rose Crochet Flower pattern.  This simple crochet flower is a great project not only for crocheters, but for knitters who want to try their hands (and hooks!) at crochet in a fast, easy and approachable little project.

Hats, Spirals, Bowls, Circles, Ponchos and More! Tips, Techniques and Approaches for designing your own crochet projects in the Round.

Have you had a project in mind for crocheting in the round and you didn't know where to start or what technique to use?  In this workshop we will explore the principles of crochet in the round so that you can design your own projects, including hats, ponchos and bowls or other projects, including freeform work.   We will look at example projects and discuss the techniques used to create them.  We will cover the basic mathematical principals (don't be scared, they're EASY!!!) of working in the round,  ways to start, round joining techniques vs. working in a spiral, tips for hiding the joins in your rounds.   The instructor will also be available for hands-on help with your project to either help get you started or help get over your "design hump".

Required Skills:  Understand basic crochet:  chain, sc (single crochet), dc (double crochet), sl st (slip stitch)

Required Materials:  Tapestry Needle, Various size crochet hooks, yarns from your stash for practice (including a smooth, non-variegated, worsted weight yarn) and materials for your In the round project that you have been working on or that you are preparing to start.

Free Pattern and Sweater Pattern coming!

Dirty Secrets of Hairpin Lace (2 hours / $35) July 16 (1 pm  3pm)

Hairpin lace creates beautiful open fabrics that look complicated and impressive!  The dirty little secret is that this technique is so simple, even a beginning crocheter can do it!  Come learn how to:  Create your own hairpin lace looms/forks, the basics of creating a hairpin lace strip and an introduction to several techniques you can use to join strips.  We will take a look at example projects and discuss the techniques used to create them.

Required Skills:  Understand basic crochet:  chain, sc (single crochet), dc (double crochet), sl st (slip stitch)

Required Materials:  Tapestry Needle, Hairpin Lace fork/loom OR a set of double pointed needles.  Various size crochet hooks, various yarns of different gauge from your stash for practice, including a smooth, non-variegated, worsted weight yarn.