Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Caring for Your Garment
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Caring for Your Garment
Overview
“In this lesson, I’m going to show you how to care for your make: how to fold, wash, dry flat, and fix loose ends. ”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Caring for Your Garment, 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
“When you've made your own peace, you want it to last a lifetime. And in this lesson, I'm going to show you how you can keep it looking perfect forever. I'm going to be showing you how you can care for your makes by using some helpful tips. We're going to be using some tools I've already introduced to you. So I'm going to be using a needle and a latch hook. to help tie in any of those loose ends that come undone. Most of the time your ends won't come undone. But you're not a factory, you're a person, and these pieces are lovingly handmade. So sometimes a loose end will pop out and I'll show ...”
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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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