Broomstick Crochet with Lindy Zubairy

Tutor: Lindy Zubairy
Craft: Crochet
Experience: Intermediate
Room: Beech 1
Summary: Broomstick Crochet is a fun way to extend your crochet range while creating a beautiful, lacy effect that may be incorporated in multiple projects and designs.

Description

Model wearing a broomstick crochet shawl.
Photo credit: Lindy Zubairy

Broomstick Crochet is a fun way to extend your crochet range while creating a beautiful, lacy effect that may be incorporated in multiple projects and designs.

It’s a bit of a maverick stitch that requires an extra bit of kit – a length of rod about the girth of a broomstick handle, hence the name. (We tend to use 20 or 35 mm knitting needles these days, however, so don’t go sawing up your broom!)

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create the beautiful peacock eyes that characterise this openwork crochet technique and explore its surprising range of design possibilities.

You do need to already know how to work a double crochet stitch (US single crochet) so this workshop is not really for beginners.

About the tutor

Photo of Lynda Zubairy
Photo credit: Lindy Zubairy

Lindy has had a number of broomstick crochet designs published in the crochet press over the years and taught day courses at Denman ‒ the college of the WI. She qualified as a design and technology teacher in 2006 and has been teaching both traditional and tunisian crochet in various formats and locations for 15 years.

Ravelry Ravelry: rankinmiss

Internet http://www.yocrochet.co.uk/

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