Crochet Workshop

Crochet Course

My mother-in-law is one of my biggest “fans” and is always in awe of everything I create for her. Last year I told her I was attending an evening crochet course and she mentioned to me she wouldn’t mind learning a new hobby. Now, if you tell me something like that I WILL find a way to make this happen!

The crochet course I did last year was with the wonderful Vicki from Miss Gregory’s GorgeousGifts and was over a few weeks in an evening. It was a brilliant way of learning the basics of crochet and gives you a good grounding to go out in to the world of crochet! I found it so beneficial to have somebody there to show you what to do and look at your work finding out where you have gone wrong – you don’t get that with a YouTube video.

So early this year Vicki announced she was running a serious of day workshops in our local town of Rhayader as well as her evening courses. Mother’s day was fastly approaching and my husband always struggles with thinking of good gifts to give her. So I suggested paying for her to go on a beginner’s workshop as an early mother’s day present. The husband thought this was a nice idea and of course I had to go for support! I saw Vicki post about it on Instagram which led to my friend seeing it so she came along with her mum too.

The day workshop was “Treble Crochet and Granny Squares” and was held in Quillies in Rhayader. The room was perfect, really bright and a good amount of space for the eight of us on the course. They also provided tea, coffee and home-made biscuits! The owner of the shop even arranged lunch for us at the local café.

Vicki began by teaching everybody how to hold their hook and about tensioning. We then learnt how to make a chain and then proceeded into the granny square learning about treble crochet. Vicki went around everybody and ensured that they were doing it right and giving words of encouragement. In the afternoon we were also shown about joining squares and blocking.

Vicki knew that I was confident in being able to complete the Granny Square so she showed me a book of granny squares (now waiting to be purchased on Amazon!!) and told me to pick one and try to make it. I picked one with a flower in the middle that the petals were raised up upon as I was always curious how this was done. I also made a little flower from the book – which I forgot to take a photo of

I loved seeing complete beginners find the love of crochet and smiled as they purchased hooks from the shop and some yarn from Vicki. I can see why she does the workshops!! I spent a lot of the day supporting my mother in law and I think I need to work on my teaching skills as I just wanted to take over and correct her mistakes for her but its something to work on if I want to do workshops in cross stitch or card marking in the future.

If you are within driving distance of Rhayader or Builth Wells and are a little bit curious about crochet have a look at Miss Gregory’s Gorgeous Gifts as she has all her workshop dates on there.

There is one problem with the workshop……………I want to crochet everything now and have a lot of Cross Stitch to complete amongst other things before July. I started another C2C blanket with some soft yarn I had and last night had to fight with myself to pick up the cross stitch not the crochet!!