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CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 10-13, 2019 Manchester, New Hampshire Education Pricing programs, including introduction to the program, meeting the reviewers, and Note Onsite class ticket price will be $10.00 reviewing your work, as well as several more per 3 hour class and $20.00 more per crochet master-level skills. 6 hours class. Afternoon Session Will Cover: Hours Member Non- Enhancing your crochet skills, including Price Member master-level techniques for finishing and Price joining, knowing your stitches, and more. 3 hour $85.00 each $105.00 each classes Supplies to bring: Worsted weight yarn $170.00 each $210.00 each 6 hours and crochet hooks. classes Homework: Write down your questions for the CGOA Masters co-chairs and portfolio Wednesday Classes reviewers. Current enrollees may bring up CGOA Mastering Crochet the CGOA to three swatches from their program for an Way onsite informal review (Note that you have the option to take Professional Development Day morning, afternoon or both.) Wednesday, July 10th, 9am-4pm Wednesday, July 10th, Two Sessions: Morning, 9am-12pm and Afternoon, Spend the day learning from established 2pm-5pm crochet professionals with experience in all Do you want to take your crocheting to the areas of the business of crochet. Crochet next level? Are you currently enrolled in, or professionals include designers, bloggers, would like to learn more about, the CGOA teachers, authors, tech editors, contract Masters programs? Join our group of crocheters, writers, and anyone who makes Masters reviewers for a half- or full- day of money from their crochet. If you fall into one learning specifically targeted to enhance or more of these categories or have your crochet skills necessary for the considered turning your hobby into a Advanced Stitches & Techniques or our business, CGOA's Professional new Fundamentals Masters programs. Development Day is for you. Topics will include: getting gauge in rows and rounds; smooth joins; foundation and Each of our speakers wears more than one linked stitches; tips for pattern reading; of these hats and will be ready to share weaving in ends invisibly and more. We’ll their knowledge and expertise with also explain what we’re looking for in the you. Begin the day with “Jumping onto a portfolio reviews and how to objectively moving train: how to do business in a review your own work. Enrollment in either changing industry” with Mary Beth Masters program is not necessary to Temple. Then, join individual Breakout attend. Sessions to learn more. Morning Session Will Cover: Breakout Sessions will fall into 3 general Information specific to the CGOA Masters themes: Careers in Crochet, Online CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 10-13, 2019 Manchester, New Hampshire Content, and Design. The topics will because you can use any size crochet include Hobby to Professional, Contract thread, enabling you to create delicate Crocheters, The Nitty Gritty of Tech pieces. You’ll learn to work the double Editing, Monetizing Online, Social Media, stitch, chains, rings, picots and joins while and more. creating a fashionable tatted necklace with added buttons. After you learn the basics of Thursday Classes shuttle tatting, you’ll be addicted to this (almost) lost art! T101 | Crazy Cool Crochet Homework: None Teacher: Melissa Leapman Material Fee: $17.00 Skill Level: Intermediate Material Fee Item(s): 2 tatting shuttles and Maximum Students: 25 detailed color handout Description: Explore fascinating stitch Student should bring: 10 yards each of patterns which will blow your hooks out of light and medium color size 10 crochet the water! Adventurous cables, lace, and cotton, 40 yards each of light and medium novelty textures will be included. The meek color size 3 crochet cotton, 23 assorted need not apply! :) buttons between 3/8” – 1 1/4" diameter (flat, Homework: None not shank style), scissors, small ruler (optional). Material Fee: $2.00 T103 | Interlocking Crochet Temple Material Fee Item(s): Handout Teacher: Mary Beth Temple Student should bring: Light colored worsted weight yarn in several different Skill Level: Intermediate colors; size I/9 crochet hook; scissors; Maximum Students: 26 sticky notes Description: Interlocking crochet is a T102 | Tatting the Old-Fashioned Way (6 technique in which two different colors of hours) filet mesh are worked at the same time. By Teacher: Susan Lowman manipulating how/where the stitches are worked, you will create a densely textured Skill Level: All Skill Levels fabric that is 100% reversible - sometimes as a mirror image, and sometimes with a Maximum Students: 20 different design on each side! After you’ve Description: Have you always admired the learned the basics the possibilities are beauty of tatting and wanted to learn to tat? endless. Then wait no longer. Shuttle tatting is easier Homework: None than you think! Tatting with a shuttle is more versatile than tatting with a needle Material Fee: $0.00 CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 10-13, 2019 Manchester, New Hampshire Material Fee Item(s): loops that can be worked together in various ways to create a project that will Student should bring: Two contrasting have everyone talking. Learn this new stitch colors of yarn in any weight with technique, as well as how to create appropriate hook sizes. 3 locking stitch consistent loop height, how to work markers. shaping, and how to incorporate it into T104 | Bunches of Textured Stitches – familiar stitch patterns. WITHOUT using post stitches Homework: None Teacher: Jennifer Ryan Material Fee: $1.00 Skill Level: All Skill Levels Material Fee Item(s): Handout Maximum Students: 20 Student should bring: materials needed: Description: Textured stitches are great to yarn and appropriate hooks for yarn. use in our crochet projects but so many of T106 | No Sew Area them require working around the post and that can be confusing. Come learn and Teacher: Jenny King practice a bunch of textured stitches that Skill Level: All Skill Levels look great in garments, accessories and blankets but don’t require any post stitches. Maximum Students: 25 Students will learn the ins and outs of each stitch and how little variations can make Description: Do you love to crochet but interesting effects. Detailed handouts detest sewing up seams or joining squares? included explaining each stitch. Jenny will show you how to let your hook do all the work. Join Jenny in her No Sew Area Homework: None and learn 5 different techniques to seam up anything including lacy garments using only Material Fee: $2.00 a crochet hook. One technique will be Material Fee Item(s): Handout featured in Crochet! Magazine so learn how to do it in class. Unfortunately this class Student should bring: H hook Medium needs you to do some homework with light weight acrylic yarn – non dark color colored smooth worsted weight yarns but it T105 | Mock Hairpin Lace will be well worth it. Teacher: Linda Dean Homework: Required Click Here Skill Level: All Skill Levels Material Fee: $0.00 Maximum Students: 20 Material Fee Item(s): Description: Crochet open loops that Student should bring: Extra yarn from the resemble Hair Pin Lace without the loom! samples. Worsted weight yarns and Use only your hook to create these long CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 10-13, 2019 Manchester, New Hampshire assorted hook for that yarn. Tunisian F Teacher: Robyn Chachula hook. Skill Level: All Skill Levels T107 | Bias Crochet Without Prejudice (6 Maximum Students: 25 hours) Description: You have crocheted all your Teacher: Lily Chin sweater panels and now what? In this Skill Level: Intermediate master class, we will answer just that. We will discuss using the right seam, best way Maximum Students: 25 to block, and perfect buttonholes. Description: Also known as diagonal Everything put together and it still looks crochet, learn this different and diverse wonky? No problem. We will talk about method that creates different, dynamic, ways to fix and straighten even the biggest directional lines easily and its applications. mistakes. This class is geared to take the While very often begun at one corner and beginner sweater crocheter to the next level worked to the other corner of a square or with just a few simple steps. This is an rectangle, let Lily show you her own intermediate level class, and students must personal “slant” that is easier, accessible know chain, single crochet, double crochet and more versatile. Get the angle on your and read crochet directions. pieces, try various colors and textures for Homework: Required head-turning work. Mix and match several effects simultaneously. Ideas for trims, Material Fee: $0.00 accents, and even whole garments will be Material Fee Item(s): discussed. Students must know how to increase and decrease in all the basic Student should bring: Bring 2 balls of stitches, have a total grasp concept of smooth yarn in contrasting colors, scissors, gauge with the ability to convert yarn needle, one hook to match yarn weight measurements into stitches and rows when and one 4 sizes smaller given a gauge. T109 | Design Your Own Crochet Border Homework: Required Teacher: Edie Eckman Material Fee: $2.00 Skill Level: Intermediate Material Fee Item(s): Handout Maximum Students: 20 Student should bring: 1. Light-colored, worsted weight yarns, 3 to 5 different Description: What better way to find the colors. 2. Appropriate hook sizes. 3. Square perfect border for your next crochet or knit graph paper, about 8 squares to the inch - project than to design your own? Mix and at least 2 sheets match a variety of crocheted elements, or choose an element from your fabric and T108 | Crochet Finishing Techniques expand on it. Learn how borders can enhance a project, how to deal with corners CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 10-13, 2019 Manchester, New Hampshire and curves, and how color choices affect T111 | Creating with Crocodile Stitch design.