Name: Crochet for Beginners - Bingham Library - Adult Learning
Start: 2025-02-24T09:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-31T09:30:00+00:00
Location: Bingham Library

Crochet for Beginners - Bingham Library - Adult Learning

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Key details

Date: 24 February - 31 March 2025
Sessions: Mondays: 9:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions: 6
Venue: Bingham Library, Nottingham
For ages: 19+
Group size: 5 - 12
Cost: FREE - £42

About this course

The course is intended to teach absolute beginners how to take their first steps in crochet.

We will focus on the topics outlined below, as these are essential for beginners to learn.

Throughout the course, we will look at:

How to hold the crochet hook
How to hold the yarn to maintain yarn tension
How to make a chain
How to make basic crochet stitches (chain, double, treble and half-treble)
How to crochet in a circle
How to read a pattern (in both UK and US formats)
Simple crochet projects including strips, squares and circles
Brief History of Crochet and its cultural expressions
By the end of the course learners will know how to take their interest in crochet further

Learners will:

Develop a way of working with the crochet hook and yarn which suits them
Have practised making chains and working stitches into them
Make basic crochet stitches including: chain, double, treble and half-treble stitches
Crochet in a circle
Be able to read and follow a simple crochet pattern
Undertake simple crochet projects including different crochet stitches, lines, squares and circles
Know how to take their interest in crochet further.
If you are already proficient in these, you may wish to consider taking a more advanced crochet course.

Learners need to bring their own Crochet Hook, and Yarn. I recommend that for the early part of the course at least you use a larger hook 4.00 or 5.00 mm (preferably soft grip) and thicker smooth ‘chunky’ yarn as you need to be able to see the stitches you will be making clearly.

Suitable hooks can be obtained online and from Hobby Craft and should cost no more than £4.

Yarn should be available from various outlets in person and online including some charity shops and general retail outlets such as Boyes.

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course please visit our webpage for further information https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas: