Granny Square Crochet: Make Your Own Sweater
Sharing on Social Media and Community Platforms
A course by Katie Jones , Crochet Designer
About the video: Sharing on Social Media and Community Platforms
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to utilise social media and get involved with the crochet community. Photograph and share your work as you go, and connect with other makers! ”
In this video lesson Katie Jones addresses the topic: Sharing on Social Media and Community Platforms, 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
“Sharing on Social Media and Community Platforms Now you've caught the crochet bug, a major first piece. In this lesson, I'll introduce you to sharing your work with the crafting community. Crochet in crafting has been a social activity from knitting circles and crochet groups, but that doesn't disappear when we go online. I love crochet because it's such a great interactive community. It's a great place where you can find new patterns and share your work. When I pivoted from running my fashion brand to work into patterns, it was because I missed the crochet crafting community so much. A gre...”
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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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