Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Planning Your Jumper
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Planning Your Jumper
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show how to plan the garment by using the sample granny tension square, and how to use your favourite jumper as a base to calculate how many squares you will need. ”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Planning Your Jumper , 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
“Now you've selected your yarn, and you've practiced the different types of granny square, In this lesson, we're going to use those squares to show you how you can calculate how much yarn you're going to need for your project. We're going to use those squares as a tension square to calculate the size of the square, how many fit in our garment and how much yarn we'll need to buy. You can use the same worksheet I've got to help note down all your measurements and help you with your calculations. First up, what we'll do is take our granny square sample and measure this and put our calculations ...”
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Course summary for: Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
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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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