Beginners Crochet

A five-week introductory course for anyone new to crochet.

This friendly and informal course is for complete beginners to give you the confidence to use a pattern and start your first crochet creations. In week one you will receive everything you will need to get you started including a ball of yarn, crochet hook and a few other goodies. To accompany this course, you will receive a new worksheet each week to enable you to practice at home between classes.

WEEK 1

Learn about hooks, yarn weights and yarn packaging, how to hold the hook and yarn, how to create a foundation chain, the double crochet stitch and how to fasten off your work.

WEEK 2

Practice chain stitch and double crochet from Week 1 and learn new stitches – half treble, treble and double treble.

WEEK 3

Practice all stitches learned over Weeks 1 and 2 plus joining yarn, weaving in ends and seaming , understanding abbreviations and mesh pattern.

WEEK 4

Making a ring, working in a spiral and working in rounds.

WEEK 5

Making Granny Squares

For fast learners there is also an opportunity to learn basic flowers and increase and decrease methods.

All materials are provided and no experience is necessary – this really is a course for complete beginners!

This five week course will run on Tuesday evenings, 6pm - 8pm, starting on date 16 September with the final class on 14 October 2025.

Participants must be aged 14+. Under 18s must be accompanied by a paying adult at all times.

If the course/workshop you’d like to book is sold out, we do operate a waiting list - simply contact our box office team on / and ask to be added to the waiting list. We’ll then contact you if a place becomes available, with absolutely no obligation to accept it if you’ve made other plans!

Please ensure that you agree to our updatedTERMS & CONDITIONS before booking as courses/workshops are non-refundable in some circumstances.

We aim to make all our sessions as accessible as possible and carers/PAs are very welcome - just remember to book their free place when you book your session. If you'd like to talk to us in advance of booking or attending your sessions to discuss your access needs, our Box Office team is here to help! Email, pop in or call, open 7 days a week.

We have four blue badge parking spaces outside Attenborough Arts Centre, plus double yellow line roadside parking very close to the building for blue badge holders for up to three hours if our parking spaces are occupied.

FREE PARKING FOR ALL CUSTOMERS IS AVAILABLE AFTER 5PM ON WEEKDAYS AND ALL DAY AT WEEKENDS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER CAR PARK NEXT DOOR TO ATTENBOROUGH ARTS CENTRE ON LANCASTER ROAD.
The closest public car park for parking at all other times is Victoria Park, 5-10 minutes walk from us.