Upcycling with Crochet for Beginners

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Upcycling with Crochet for Beginners provided by Domestika is a comprehensive online course. Upcycling with Crochet for Beginners is taught by Emma Friedlander-Collins. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Domestika. The course is taught in Englishand is $9.00. Visit the course page at Domestika for detailed price information.

Overview
  • Transform your wardrobe using basic crochet techniques

    • Introduction
    • How to Crochet
    • Design
    • What's Next for Your Slippers?
    • Final project
    Reinvent the world around you with colorful patterns, and give new life to unused clothes through upcycling. Using simple crochet techniques, this course will give you the necessary knowledge to upgrade your unused garments into unique pieces of clothing. Upcycling champion Emma Friedlander Collins, better known as Steel and Stitch, shares her passion and talent for enhancing unwanted apparel into special favorites.

    In this course, you will learn how to transform a pair of flip flops into cozy, contemporary slippers to jumpstart your upcycling adventure, and explore the multitude of possibilities that upcycling with crochet can bring to your wardrobe.

Syllabus
    • Introduction
    • What We Will Do on the Course
    • Influences
    • How Crochet Can Be Used for Upcycling
    • Increasing and Decreasing
    • Treble Crochet
    • Double Crochet
    • Chain and Slip Stitch
    • Choosing the Hooks and Other Tools
    • Choosing Yarn
    • Choosing Colours
    • Stitching Everything Together!
    • Crochet into Flip-Flop
    • How to Prepare the Flip-Flop
    • Making a Half Square
    • Making a Square - Part II
    • Making a Square - Part I
    • How to Read a Pattern
    • How to Care for Your Slippers
    • Customise Your Flip-Flops
    • Introduction to Crochet