Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Edging
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Edging
Overview
“Here I’m going to teach how to finish the crochet work with a double crochet edging. I will show demonstrate how to finalize your piece to a high standard.”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Edging, 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
“Edging Now you can really see your jumper taking form. In this lesson, we’ll be adding the final edging around the outside of our piece to get a really nice crisp firm edge. I’ll be working in double crochet again. I'm working around the neck, the cuffs and along the bottom, and this just helps straighten out your edges, and gives it that nice professional finish. I’ll work in yellow again, so you can see my stitches, but you’ll want to do this row in your border colour. Take our jumper, and we’ll be work around the neck. I’ll grab my yarn, place it on my hook in the slip knot. I'll join th...”
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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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