Correspondence Course: Tapestry Crochet Bag

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Instructor: Carol Ventura

Description: Learn tapestry crochet while completing a fashionable and useful bag. Students will learn to carry a thread, how to do the tapestry crochet stitch and how to crochet in the round, as well as read about the history of tapestry crochet.

Goals: Complete a tapestry crochet bag, learn to carry a thread, learn the tapestry crochet stitch, learn how to crochet in rounds, and read about history of tapestry crochet

Yarn and Hook Used: mercerized cotton, E/4 (3.50mm) hook

Stitches Student Must Know: chain, single crochet, slip knot, slip stitch

Skills Required: ability to read written crochet instructions

Length of Class: 5 to 6 hours

Time to complete: approximately 3 months

Finished Size: 5" wide x 8" high (without strap)

Materials Provided: none

Materials Student Provides: one blue (color 251) and one white (color 800) 100 gram balls (185 yds. Each) three-ply Saucy 100% mercerized cotton by Reynolds (JCA Fashion Yarns, 35 Scales Lane, Townsend, MA 01469, 800-225-6340) or a similar substitute, E/4 (3.50 mm) hook

Approx. Cost of Student Provided Materials: $10.00

Submission for Critique: finished tapestry crochet bag

Course Fee: $35.00