Crochet Level 1: Beginner Crochet

Welcome back to crochet! Whether you learned recently or when you were younger, this course is for you. We will go over the basics to re-learn or refresh foundational skills. If you have never picked up a crochet hook before, please take Level 0.

You will learn several stitches as well as some helpful general skills by crocheting a cowl. 

The necessary materials and pattern are included in the cost of the course and will be provided to you in the first class.

Run Time

4 sessions x 1.5 hours. 

Project

Foggy Morning Cowl by Tanis McNally-Dawes. See our project on Ravelry.

Skills Taught

• Chain, single crochet, half double crochet, and double crochet
• Concept of gauge
• Starting rows with each type of stitch, keeping edges straight
• Common abbreviations
• Stitch recognition
• Following a written pattern
• Joining a new ball
• Finishing Techniques
  

Skills Required

• Know how to hold a crochet hook

Materials Provided

• Foggy Morning Cowl by Tanis McNally-Dawes. Also available through your Beehive customer account.
• 3 balls of Drops Nepal. Yarn provided may not be the same colour as pictured.
• 5.5 mm (US I-9) crochet hook
• Tapestry needle
• 3 locking stitch markers
• Resources page

Supplies to Purchase

• Nothing

Lesson Plan

Class 1

• How to hold a hook and tension yarn
• Chain, single crochet
• How to keep edges straight
• Homework: Practice stitches learned

Class 2

• Refresh on skills learned in previous class
• Half double crochet, double crochet
• Intro to pattern reading
• Start project
• Homework: Work until the end of the first ball of yarn

Class 3

• How to join a new ball
• Discussion of importance of gauge and swatching
• Continue project
• Homework: Work until the end of the second ball of yarn

Class 4

• Finish project
• Slip stitch seaming
• Weaving in tails