4JF-10PA: 4-H Member Project Guides, Needlework, Crochet

4JF-10PA

4-H Member Project Guides NEEDLEWORK Crochet 4-H Needlework—Crochet 4JF-10PA

Purpose To have fun while learning how to use yarn/thread and a hook to create useful, well-made items through the needle art of crochet.

Contents 4-H Needlework—Young Junior Crochet Here We Go—Row by Row ...... 3 4-H Needlework—Beginner Crochet Here We Go, Around and Around ...... 5 4-H Needlework—Intermediate Crochet Here We Go, Pa�erns Galore! ...... 7 4-H Needlework—Advanced Crochet From There to Here, Anything Goes! ...... 9 4JF-10PA 4-H Needlework—Crochet

4-H Needlework—Young Junior Crochet Member Project Guide (Ages 9 to 11) Here We Go—Row by Row

Welcome to crochet! You are going to learn a skill that will be lots of fun. Crochet projects are easy to take with you from place to place. Once you have learned the basics you will be able to make all sorts of fun things for yourself, your family, and your friends. So pick up your yarn and get hooked!

DO What you will do: Learn new skills.  Practice the skills and techniques—learn by doing You will learn to: Make one or more of the suggested • Tie a slip knot Practice/Service Projects. Consider • Chain giving some of these as gi�s to friends or family. Practice Projects include: • Single crochet a chain necklace; a single crochet • Double crochet sample; a double crochet sample; and • Slip a stitch a headband. • Attach yarn  Try a Service Project—learn • Fasten off by sharing • Count stitches and rows Crochet and assemble blocks to make afghans for the homeless or to distrib- • Read directions ute at nursing homes, or make baby • Begin to recognize abbreviations booties for a hospital. (Block size: used in pattern directions 7-by-9 inches to practice controlling your gauge.) APPLY Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. Using the skills above, practice and complete a project.  Crochet and exhibit a final project Create one item or pair of items using 4-ply, light-colored, worsted-weight yarn with single and/or double crochet. Suggestions: scarf, purse, or belt.

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 Keep a record of what you have crocheted Clutter Control Ask your parent or leader to help you Equipment and supplies have a tendency ﬁll out the 4-H Needlework Record to get lost. Here are some suggestions to for your project. Be sure to list skills help keep everything safe and in good you have a�empted as well as those condition: you believe you have mastered. Store • Use a 1-gallon bag with a zip top the record in a folder or three-ring notebook to review before you begin for your crochet project (put your next year’s project. name on it) • Use a small container to hold your What you will need: basic small equipment • H crochet hook • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles to carry all supplies • Light, solid-colored, 4-ply worsted- weight yarn for practice • Use a pocket folder or three-ring binder to store handouts and patterns • Light, solid-colored, 4-ply worsted- weight yarn for project • Scissors (small, blunt-end preferred) • T-pins (long pins with blunt points) • Yarn needle (plastic or metal) Source: Doris Reed, County Leader Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences SHARE Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences Show others what you have learned. What you can do: • Participate in your club, county, district, and/or state Demonstration Contest • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky State Fair (4-H Project Card is required) • Investigate participating in your county Fashion Revue

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4-H Needlework—Beginner Crochet Member Project Guide Here We Go, Around and Around Welcome! Learning crochet basics are necessary—and fun. Once you know the basics, you will be able to make all sorts of neat things for yourself, your family, and your friends. So pick up your yarn and get hooked!

DO APPLY Learn new skills. Use the skills you may have already learned as well as the skills listed above to You will learn to: practice and complete a project. • Select patterns and yarn What you will do: • Tie a slip knot  Practice skills and techniques— • Make a chain learn by doing • Single crochet Make one or more of the suggested • Double crochet Practice/Service Projects for yourself. • Half double crochet Consider giving some of these as gi�s • Treble crochet to friends or family. Practice Projects include: a chain necklace, a stitch sam- • Join rounds ple, a headband, an ornament, and/or • Increase and decrease stitches a granny square. • Slip a stitch  Try a Service Project—learn • Count rows and stitches by sharing • Attach yarn Crochet and assemble blocks to make • Recognize stitches afghans for the homeless or to distrib- • Join seams ute at nursing homes. (Crochet 7-by- 9-inch blocks to practice controlling • Read directions and learn abbreviations your gauge.) Crochet baby booties for • Fasten off a hospital. • Change colors at the beginning or end Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in of a row 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. • Recognize the difference between a space and a stitch

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 Crochet and exhibit a final What you can do: project • Participate in your club, county, district, Make one item or a pair of items using and/or state Demonstration Contest one or more of the stitches you learned • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, (single crochet, double crochet, treble and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky crochet, half double crochet). Yarn oth- State Fair (4-H Project Card required) er than 4-ply worsted-weight, including novelty and sport or bulky weight, • Investigate participating in your county may be used. You may use colors in and state Fashion Revue if your project is alternating rows. Suggestions: vest, wearable* shawl, purse, scarf, lap wrap, small * State Fashion Revue participants must be 14 years afghan. old by Jan. 1 of the current year.  Keep a record of what you have crocheted Take time to ﬁll out the 4-H Needle- Clutter Control work Record. Be sure to list skills you Equipment and supplies have a tendency have a�empted as well as those you to get lost. Here are some suggestions to believe you have mastered. Store the help keep everything safe and in good record in a folder or three-ring note- condition: book to review before you begin next year’s project. • Use a 1-gallon bag with a zip top for your crochet project (put your What you will need: name on it) • H crochet hook • Use a small container to hold your basic small equipment • 4-ply worsted-weight yarn for practice • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles • Yarn of choice for project and practice to carry all supplies (if other than 4-ply worsted-weight) • Use a pocket folder or three-ring • Scissors (blunt-end preferred) binder to store handouts and patterns • T pins (long pins with blunt points) • Yarn needle (plastic or metal)

SHARE Source: Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences Show others what you have learned. Doris B. Reed, County Leader Mary Hixson, County Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences

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4-H Needlework—Intermediate Crochet Member Project Guide Here We Go, Patterns Galore! You’re hooked! You have learned the basic crochet stitches and techniques, and now you will learn to combine stitches into patterns and to make them larger or smaller. Everyone crochets diﬀerently. The tension may be tight or loose, so at this level you will learn to control gauge.

DO  Try a Service Project—learn by sharing Learn new skills and refine old ones. Crochet and assemble blocks to make You can learn to: afghans for the homeless or to distrib- ute at nursing homes. (Crochet blocks • Create pattern stitches (shell, arch, 7 by 9 inches to practice controlling diamond, bobble, snapdragon, popcorn, your gauge.) Hats, blankets, booties, cross, puff, cluster, seed/granite) and “preemie” hats can be made for • Control gauge hospitals. Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in APPLY 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair. Practice what you have learned as you  complete a project. Crochet and exhibit a final project What you will do: Create one item or pair of items using one or more pa�ern stitches,  Practice the skills and increasing and/or decreasing, and techniques—learn by doing one or more colors of yarn in alternat- Make one or more of the suggested ing rows. Bedspread-weight thread Practice/Service Projects. These or yarns other than 4-ply worsted- projects make great gi�s for friends weight may be used. Project sugges- and family. Practice Projects include tions include: sweater, vest, shawl, samples of pa�ern stitches from the purse, scarf, baby blanket, and a set of Crochet Pa�erns section in the 4-H five different pa�erned snowflakes Needlework Notebook. You can also using bedspread-weight thread. use pa�erns of your choice.

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 Keep a record of what you have crocheted Clutter Control Take time to ﬁll out the 4-H Needle- Equipment and supplies have a tendency work Record. Be sure to list skills you to get lost. Here are some suggestions to have a�empted as well as those you help keep everything safe and in good believe you have mastered. Store the condition: record in a folder or three-ring note- • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel book to review before you begin next toothbush holder to hold small items year’s project. such as hooks, T-pins, yarn needles, tape measure, pencil, and notepad What you will need: (put your name on it) • Basic equipment (scissors, T pins, • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your yarn needle) crochet samples • Crochet hook (determined by pattern • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles or as needed for gauge) to carry all supplies and materials • Yarn to practice • Use a pocket folder or three-ring • Yarn or thread for project binder to store handouts and patterns • Split markers • Gauge ruler

Source: Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & SHARE Consumer Sciences Show others what you have learned. Doris Reed, County Leader What you can do: • Participate in your club, county, and/or district Demonstration Contest • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky State Fair (4-H Project Card required) • Investigate participating in your county and state Fashion Revue if your project is wearable* * State Fashion Revue participants must be 14 years old by Jan. 1 of the current year.

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4-H Needlework—Advanced Crochet Member Project Guide From There to Here, Anything Goes! You’ve learned the basic stitches and techniques, so now what? Venture into the unknown! Explore and discover for yourself all the diﬀerent and fun things you can do with various hooks and materials. There’s no limit. Anything goes!

DO APPLY Look at the advanced skills and tech- Using the skills you have already learned niques listed below and decide what is of as well some of those listed at le�, practice what interest to you. Many of the basic skills and you have learned and complete a project. techniques you learned previously will be helpful as you learn new ones. What you will do: • Afghan stitch  Practice skills and techniques— • Bead work learn by doing • Camel crochet Make one or more of the suggested • Cro-hook/Cro-knit Practice/Service Projects. Consider giv- • Cro-tat ing some of these as gi�s to friends or family. You will want to explore your • Filet crochet local library, cra� and yarn stores, • Irish crochet magazines, bookstores, and the Inter- • Novelty crocheted items (dolls, net for ideas. Select one or more Prac- animals, etc.) tice Projects that include the skills you are learning. • Novelty yarn • Patterns, plaids, geometric, checks, etc.  Try a Service Project—learn by sharing • Design your own (submit instructions with project) Crochet and assemble blocks to make afghans for the homeless or to distrib- • Other (free form, tapestry, wire ute at nursing homes. Hats, booties, jewelry, etc.) blankets, or “preemie” hats can be (Ask your leader for a copy of the Advanced Cro- made for hospitals. chet Terminology Fact Sheet for a description of the above.) Practice/Service Projects cannot be exhibited in 4-H Needlework at the Kentucky State Fair.

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 Crochet and exhibit a final What you can do: project • Participate in your club, county, district, Make one item or pair of items us- and/or state Demonstration Contest ing one or more of the skills and/or • Exhibit in your county Fair, Festival, techniques listed previously. If you and/or Rally Day and the Kentucky design your own, wri�en instructions State Fair (4-H Project Card required) are required as documentation. Some suggestions include: afghan, cape, eve- • Investigate participating in your county ning bag, sweater, vest, poncho, dress, and state Fashion Revue if your project is skirt, jacket, bedspread, pillow, ani- wearable* mals, dolls, and rugs. * State Fashion Revue participants must be 14 years old by Jan. 1 of the current year.  Keep a record of what you have crocheted Take time to ﬁll out the 4-H Needle- Clutter Control work Record. Be sure to list skills you have a�empted as well as those you Equipment and supplies have a tendency believe you have mastered. Store the to get lost. Here are some suggestions to record in a folder or three-ring note- help keep everything safe and in good book to review before you begin addi- condition: tional projects. • Use a pencil box, eye glass case, travel toothbush holder to hold small items What you will need: such as hooks, T-pins, yarn needles, • Basic equipment, including: scissors, tape measure, pencil, and notepad T pins, yarn needle (put your name on it) • Crochet hook (determined by pattern or • Use zip top plastic bags to hold your as needed for gauge) crochet samples • Yarn for practice • Use a cloth or sturdy bag with handles to carry all supplies and materials • Yarn or thread for project • Use a pocket folder or three-ring • Gauge ruler binder to store handouts and patterns • Other supplies as determined by project

SHARE Show others what you have learned. Source: Marjorie Baker, Extension Associate, Family & Consumer Sciences Doris Reed, County Master Volunteer and Leader

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