Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Intro to Granny Square Crochet
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Intro to Granny Square Crochet
Overview
“In this lesson, I’m going to introduce the granny square: from first popping up in The Art of Crocheting as an engraving, in 1891, through its boom in the 60s and 70s, to how it’s been adopted by modern fashion.”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Intro to Granny Square Crochet, which is part of the Domestika online course: Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater. Learn how to crochet the iconic granny square and assemble your stitches to create a bold statement piece full of color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Intro to Granny Square Crochet In this lesson, I'll introduce you to what the granny square is. A granny square is a crochet square motif. They use a simple amount of stitches and became very popular because it said that grannies made them when they couldn't work any longer to join them. You can feel the gaps when you’re stitching and working into them. That's where the name came from. They’re a simple motif that gets joined to make loads of variations of make. This is a traditional granny square using different colours for each row. It was popular as it would use up your odds and ends and ...”
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Course summary for: Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Crochet, DIY, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Textile Design
Katie Jones
A course by Katie Jones
Katie Jones is a UK-based crochet artist who runs her own crochet brand alongside her mum where she makes and sells fun, colorful, hand-crocheted pieces with sustainability in mind. Crocheting has been in her family for generations and Kate was first introduced to it by her grandma. She went on to specialize in knitwear at Central Saint Martins art school in London.
Katie’s forte is creating wearable, artisanal collections that are big on color and also stay true to her grandma’s philosophy of making something beautiful out of nothing. Her pieces have been featured in the V&A and the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Florence as well as in publications including Vogue, Dazed and Confused, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and more. She also won the Selfridges Bright New Things Award in 2016.
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