Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Jumper Fit and Feel
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Jumper Fit and Feel
Overview
“In this lesson, I’m going to teach how yarn choice can drastically change the look of a project. We will also explore how different weights or yarn types can affect the jumper feel. ”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Jumper Fit and Feel, 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
“Jumper Fit and Feel We saw our design inspiration and selected our colour palette. In this lesson, we'll start thinking about the fit and feel of our garment. When planning our jumper design, we'll now start thinking about how we want our garment to fit, how do we want it to feel, what kind of yarn do we want to use, and what kind of garment shape do we want to make. The type of yarn you'll select to use for your projects affects the weight and the feel of your jumper. You can see from the table here, I've got one square done five times in five different yarns, and you'll see how much the y...”
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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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