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.

About the tutor:

Tutor Bonita Keay is a passionate crafter and always says making is part of who she is! She started her handmade business journey in 2007 when her children were small and now sells regularly at craft fairs (including our Attenborough Arts Centre fairs!). Bonita is also an experienced tutor, sharing her knowledge, skills and passion with adults and young people, inspiring creativity and wellbeing wherever she goes.

She sources all materials ethically and sustainably, supporting other small businesses where possible.

Further
Information:

This 5-week
course will run on Tuesday evenings, 6pm - 8pm, starting on 8 September, with
the final class on 6 Oct 2026.

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 read and agree to our updated Terms
& Conditions before booking as courses/workshops
Are non-refundable if cancelled within 21 days of the start date for any
Reason.

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
Arts-centre@le.Ac.UK, 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 (near De Montfort Hall).