Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Spot Granny Square
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Spot Granny Square
Overview
“In this lesson, I will teach you how to create a spot design for the granny square, and the different techniques required to create it.”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Spot Granny Square, 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
“Spot Granny Square In this lesson, I’ll introduce you to a graphic take on the granny square introducing our spot square influenced by the polka dots I loved in Kusama’s work. I'll use this one for reference, but make sure that the square matches with our other motifs. Take two colours of the yarn you’ll use to start. Take two colours. I’ll work in orange and yellow. With this square, I’ll introduce two new techniques. One is working in the round and increasing into the stitch. In the second technique we'll learn how to also do half treble. For the first part and the spot of our granny squa...”
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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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