Get started with crochet! From holding your hook to creating a beautiful granny square blanket, get the techniques you need to crochet with confidence!
The Crochet Basics – Learn to Crochet Within a Week will teach you the basic crochet techniques and will make swatches of each to practice and build confidence in the skills. The course will cover basic pattern reading, pattern abbreviations and terminology and take a look at chart reading.
You will learn the stitches, tools and techniques you need to get started with crochet! Learn how to work in rows, keep your crochet on track and troubleshoot rows gone wrong. Then, learn three different ways to get started working in the round and become comfortable reading patterns! Finally, combine your new skills to create a charming granny square blanket you’ll be proud to display or give.
The Crochet Basics – Learn to Crochet Within a Week is designed for beginners, no knowledge of crochet is necessary, and is in fact preferable if you are to make the most of the course structure.
What Will I Learn?
- crochet, even if you have never done it before
- make simple items such as a heart, granny square, triangle, filet blocks, circle, flower and a spiral shell
- reading the crochet charts, and understanding the signs
Requirements
- get a yarn, preferably not too thin (2-3 mm thick)
- get the right crochet hook for the yarn you have chosen – ask the shops advice, or you can see the suggestion on the yarns label as well
- scissors
- darning needle – not necessary in the beginning
Who is the target audience?
- absolute beginners
- those, who has learned to crochet before, but would like to refresh their knowledge
- those who knows how to crochet, but want to be more explicit in their knowledge
Course Curriculum
| What is crochet? What is it good for? | |||
| Introduction | FREE | 00:05:00 | |
| How to Study | 00:04:00 | ||
| Hooks | 00:04:00 | ||
| What is Needed | 00:01:00 | ||
| Crochet Basics | |||
| Holding the Hook | 00:03:00 | ||
| Slip Knot | 00:02:00 | ||
| Chain Stitch | 00:03:00 | ||
| Double Crochet | 00:02:00 | ||
| Treble Crochet | 00:03:00 | ||
| Half Treble Crochet | 00:02:00 | ||
| Double Treble Crochet | 00:03:00 | ||
| Triple Treble Crochet | 00:02:00 | ||
| Slip Stitch | 00:03:00 | ||
| Increase Decrease | 00:04:00 | ||
| Front Back Loop | 00:04:00 | ||
| FSC | 00:05:00 | ||
| Simple Crochet Items, Based on What We Already Know | |||
| Triangle | 00:12:00 | ||
| Filet Crochet | 00:12:00 | ||
| Heart | 00:13:00 | ||
| Circle | 00:09:00 | ||
| Granny squares | 00:13:00 | ||
| Five Petal Flower | 00:15:00 | ||
| Spiral Shell | 00:13:00 | ||
| Goodbye | 00:01:00 | ||
| Course Certification | |||
| Order your Certificate | 00:00:00 | ||
FAQs
This course is for anyone who's interested in this topic and wants to learn more about it. This course will also help you gain potential professional skills.
No prior qualifications are needed to take this course.
You can study this course from wherever and whenever you want. You can study at your own pace and from any device. Just log in to your account from any device and start learning!
Yes, there is a test at the end of the course. Once you’ve completed all the modules of the course, you will have to give a multiple-choice test. The questions will be based on the topics of the modules you studied. And of course, you can take the test at any time, from any device and from anywhere you want.
Don’t worry if you fail the test, you can retake it as many times as you want.
You don’t have to wait a minute after your payment has been received, you can begin immediately. You will create your login details during the checkout process and we will also send you an email confirming your login details.
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After you complete the course, you’ll immediately receive a free printable PDF certificate. Hard Copy certificate is also available, and you can get one for just £9! You may have to wait for 3 to 9 days to get the hard copy certificate.
