CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 22-25, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana
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CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 22-25, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana Education Pricing Professional Development Day Wednesday, July 22nd, 9am-4pm Note Onsite class ticket price will be $10.00 Spend the day learning from established more per 3 hour class and $20.00 more per crochet professionals with experience in all 6 hours class. areas of the business of crochet. Crochet professionals include designers, bloggers, Hours Member Non- teachers, authors, tech editors, contract Price Member crocheters, writers, and anyone who makes Price money from their crochet. If you fall into one 3 hour $85.00 each $105.00 each or more of these categories or have classes considered turning your hobby into a $170.00 each $210.00 each 6 hours business, CGOA's Professional classes Development Day is for you. Wednesday Classes Each of our speakers wears more than one of these hats and will be ready to share CGOA Mastering Crochet the CGOA their knowledge and expertise with Way you. This year we will offer longer breakout (Note that you have the option to take sessions so you can get more in depth morning, afternoon or both.) information on a variety of topics you can Wednesday, July 22nd, Two Sessions: choose from. Topics will include design Morning, 9am-12pm and Afternoon, inspiration, vending, teaching, tech editing, 2pm-5pm and more. Morning Session Will Cover: Information Wednesday Classes specific to the CGOA Masters programs, including introduction to the program, Classes 1:30-4:30 meeting the reviewers, and reviewing your W101 | Fun Crochet Fabric for work, as well as several crochet master- Beginners! level skills. Teacher: Bonnie Barker Afternoon Session Will Cover: Enhancing Skill Level: All Skill Levels your crochet skills, including master-level techniques for finishing and joining, Maximum Students: 20 knowing your stitches, and more. Description: Are you a beginner crocheter who's ready for the next step? Then come Supplies to bring: Worsted weight yarn, crochet hooks, finishing needles and learn some really fun fabric that you can scissors. make with your crochet hook! Come along with Bonnie and learn how to crochet the Homework: Write down your questions for shell stitch, the tulip stitch, the ripple, the CGOA Masters co-chairs and portfolio basketweave, and the Granny Square reviewers. Current enrollees may bring up Ripple. You won't believe how easy it is to to three swatches from their program for an add these stitches to your crochet onsite informal review. repertoire! Crocheter should already be #chainlink2020#yescgoa#cgoa CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 22-25, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana familiar with the basic crochet stitches: Material Fee Item(s): Full color bound chain, slip stitch, single crochet, and double handout crochet. Student should bring: Yarn, solid, light- to Homework: None medium-colored, DK (#3) or worsted weight (#4) yarn so that we can see our stitches; Material Fee: $0.00 Tunisian (also called Afghan) crochet hook, Material Fee Item(s): 2 sizes larger than what you regularly use or is recommended for the yarn. Student should bring: Please bring your crochet hooks (sizes H, I & J) and enough W103 | Ridgeless Rows yarn to make several swatches. Worsted Teacher: Lily Chin and DK weight yarn from your stash will be fine. Skill Level: Intermediate W102 | Tunisian Basics Maximum Students: 14 Teacher: Karen Whooley Description: Crocheting a flat piece back and forth results in every other row “ridging Skill Level: Beginner out.” This means horizontal bands that all Maximum Students: 22 too often does not flatter. This occurs even in fancier stitches such as Shell Stitch and Description: Tunisian crochet is a crochet Seed Stitch. When working circular in the technique in a category all of its own. round having only the Right Side facing, Worked in paired forward (picking up loops) there is no ridge. However, there is a clear and return passes (working off the loops), bias or torquing and the stitches don’t line unique stitches of all kinds can be created. up vertically. If you are a knitter wanting to learn crochet, Tunisian is the perfect way to learn to This is no longer a problem. Yes, there is maneuver with a single hook. In this indeed a solution and it’s a fairly simple workshop, you will learn how to pick your one. Employing what I call the “flip” stitches. hook size, work up a Tunisian stitch Try not only the basic stitches, but a few sampler scarf to lay the foundation for your fancier patterned stitches as well. Learn Tunisian crochet adventures, and how to how to work back and forth with a “smooth” finish your work with lots of tips along the row facing all the time! Stitches will line up way. If time allows, how to increase and vertically, unlike circular crochet. Yes, it’s decrease will be included too! Students really that revolutionary! must know how to make a chain, yarn over Homework: Required and pull up loops on the hook. Material Fee: $1.00 Homework: None Material Fee Item(s): Handout Material Fee: $3.00 #chainlink2020#yescgoa#cgoa CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 22-25, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana Student should bring: 1. Homework Description: This is the cowl that has swatches.2. Appropriate hook sizes and captivated more attention in color pooling maybe one smaller and one larger. and slip stitch crochet classes than any other. Its pattern is available for the first W104 | Understanding Symbol Crochet time in this class. It may look time- Teacher: Edie Eckman consuming but it was crocheted in continuous spiraling rounds with a large Skill Level: Beginner hook. It started with a simple idea: why not Maximum Students: 22 do an infinity mobius in Bosnian crochet? And why not see what it’s like to stack the Description: More and more crochet colors of a variegated yarn? To add to this patterns are using international crochet heady mix, all stitches face the front (even symbols. With symbol crochet, you can see though there’s that mobius twist in there). what your stitch pattern is supposed to look Crocheting it is like surfing lunar tides. like and see the relationship of stitches to After making the first one, instructor one another. Many crocheters find this way devised an invisible center spine (the of presenting patterns easier to follow than foundation row, see purple one pictured). written-out instructions, allowing them to The slip stitch lattice pattern was specially avoid mistakes before they happen! Learn developed for the border so that the change the fundamentals of symbol crochet and in texture would not disrupt the yarn's color see how this universal crochet "language" sequences. Treat this like a project class if makes it easy to read patterns from any you’re experienced, but it's also a primer for country. We'll also talk about and see a three techniques: planned pooling demonstration of ways to create your own principles, slip stitch crochet, and true crochet diagrams. Student should have mobius construction. Getting the one of a confidence with basic crochet stitches (sc, kind moiré effects will come naturally to hdc, dc) first-time planned color-poolers. Homework: None By the end of class you’ll also understand how the Fondant Cowl is related to the Material Fee: $1.00 Mindbender Mobius. (See Material Fee Item(s): Color Handout https://www.designingvashti.com/mindbend er-mobius-news/ for updated information on Student should bring: Smooth, light- these fascinating projects.) Masters colored worsted or sport weight yarn and Programs: Basic stitches, gauge, appropriate-sized hook, pencil, scissors foundation stitches, geometric shapes and W105 | Mindbender Mobius construction, materials: weights, fiber properties, dyeing styles. Student should Teacher: Vashti Braha have some experience with slip stitch crochet, or with planned color pooling, is Skill Level: Advanced helpful but not required. Maximum Students: 20 Homework: None #chainlink2020#yescgoa#cgoa CGOA | Chain Link Conference July 22-25, 2020 New Orleans, Louisiana Material Fee: $3.00 F crochet hooks, yarn needle, small sharp scissors. Material Fee Item(s): Full-Color Comprehenxive Handout Thursday Classes Student should bring: A few different T101 | Bunches of Textured Stitches - variegated yarns and crochet hooks that WITHOUT using post stitches are about two and three sizes larger than usual for each yarn. Check that some of a Teacher: Jennifer Ryan yarn's colors last for at least 6 inches before Skill Level: All Skill Levels changing to the next color. During class break we'll take a quick field trip to the Maximum Students: 30 conference market (if it's open) to see if Description: Textured stitches are great to there are new variegated yarns to try! use in our crochet projects but so many of Want to use Misti Alpaca yarn like in the them require working around the post and pictured large cowl? Start with a non-Misti that can be confusing. Come learn and yarn in class first. practice a bunch of textured stitches that W106 | Crochet Flower Embellishments look great in garments, accessories and blankets but don’t require any post stitches. Teacher: Myra Wood Students will learn the ins and outs of each Skill Level: All Skill Level stitch and how little variations can make interesting effects. Detailed handouts (with Maximum Students: 26 photos) included explaining each stitch. **CGOA Masters of Advanced Crochet Description: More is more! Freeform Stitches and Techniques - Textured embellishments take crochet to the next Stitches**. Students should know how to level! First you’ll learn a wonderful crochet ch, sc, dc and tr cord based on Romanian Point Lace that can be used for a variety of other crochet Homework: Required projects.