Knitting & Crochet Projects

Create any of these knitting & crochet projects in our One-to-One knit & crochet lessons at a time that suits you

What to make & what to bring with you
Take a look at our knitting & crochet projects page below. Each project will indicate skill level, estimated number of hours needed to complete the project, plus what to bring along to your lesson. 

Alternatively, feel free to bring along your current knitting or crochet project for including yarn, patterns and needles and our teacher Susan will be able to help you!

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Cable knitted wrist warmers
Time: 8-10 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Improver
Bring:

  • 1x100g balls of wool 'chunky' yarn. The yarn used in the picture is brand name 'Sirdar Tweedie Chunky' but you can use any wool that is called 'chunky'. 
  • Knitting Needles: 
    • 1 pair of 6.5mm needles
    • 1 pair of 5.5mm needles
    • A cable needle that's suitable for Chunky yarn. 
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Simple knitted wrist warmers
Time: 3-5 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Suitable for beginners
Bring:

  • 1 x 50g ball of Aran yarn (wool, cotton or manmade fibre) balls in colour of choice
  • 1 pair of 5mm knitting needles
  • Download the pattern HERE

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Striped knitted wrist warmers
Time: 5-7 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Improver
Bring:

  • 3 x 50g ball of Aran yarn (wool, cotton or manmade fibre) balls in different colours of choice
  • 1 pair of 5mm knitting needles

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Knitted cushion with shape design
Time: 5-7 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Improver
Bring:

  • If knitting in double knit yarn, bring 4 x 50g of the main colour and 1 x 50g ball of the contrast colour (ie the cream star shape)
  • If knitting with Aran yarn, bring 100g of the main colour and 50g of the contrast colout.  You may wish to avoid black yarn generally as it’s harder to see what you are doing
  • 12” cushion pad
  • Half a metre (any width 44"- 60") square of cotton non stretch fabric for cushion backing
  • Thread that matches the colour of the main wool
  • Knitting Needles - If knitting in double knit yarn use 4mm needles.  If knitting in Aran yarn, use 5mm needles.
  • A hand sewing needle - large eye that yarn can fit through

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crochet squares by susan

Crochet Granny Squares - for bunting, a cushion, a blanket
Time: 3-4.5 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Suitable for beginner or improver
(An absolute beginner will need 2 classes to learn this from scratch and make your first granny square!)
Bring:

  • Rowan Handknit Cotton yarns (a nice yarn for beginners to use as its not too thin) or any other double knitting yarn can be used. Choose as many or few colors as you like - we used 4 different colours here. 
  • Crochet hook size 3.5mm preferable / 4mm ok
  • A large hand sewing needle to join the squares - needs a large eye that yarn can fit through (we have some but you'll need one to finish at home

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Knitted Hat
Time: 4-6.5 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for beginners/intermediate knitters
Bring:

  • 1 pair of 5mm knitting needles
  • 100g of Aran yarn. (Aran is the name of the thickness of the yarn used).

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 Knitted Xmas Decs

Time: 3-5 hours of 121 lessons
Level: Suitable for beginners - intermediate
(We have a range of patterns available which range from easy to more complicated.)
Bring:

  • 2-3 x 50g balls of different colour double knitting yarns, depending on which colours you wish to use (ie. red, green and cream as pictured.)  
  • We like Rowan Handknit Cotton Double Knit yarn (50g balls) or Sirdar DK (double knit) cotton (100g balls) yarn. 
  • You can bring along your own needles or email us if you wish to borrow some from on the day: the horse decoration requires 5mm needles, all other designs here use 3.25mm needles

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Knitted Mobile Phone Cover
Classes: 2.5-3 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for beginners
Bring:

  • If making the striped phone case (right) bring 2 x 50g balls of different colour, double knitting yarn  
  • If making the cabled phone case in Aran yarn, bring 1x 100g ball
  • 1 pair of 3.25mm-3.75mm knitting needles for double knitting yarn OR 1 pair 5mm needles for Aran yarn

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            Susan Xmas crochet


Crocheted Christmas Decorations

Crochet a star
in our 3 hr Beginner Crochet Workshop (all materials included)
Crochet the other designs in 3-5 hrs of one to one crochet lessons (bring materials, see below)

Snowflake garland, Holly, misteltoe or star decoration 

Level:
 suitable for complete beginners and above

Bring for one to one lessons:

  • 2-3 x 50g balls of different colour double knitting yarns (ie. red, green and cream as pictured).  
  • We like Rowan Handknit Cotton Double Knit (50g balls) or Sirdar DK (double knit) cotton yarn (100g balls).
  • You can bring along your own 3.5mm or 4mm crochet hook or let us know when booking if you need to borrow one 
        
            knits for kids Childrens knits
Time: 10-15 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for improvers
Bring:

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  578E70BC-83E9-4DF6-B334-37B6A7CCE168 Scrunchies
Time: 3-4 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for complete beginners
Bring:
  • Materials included or contact for more info 

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Time: 3-4 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for complete beginners
Bring:
  • Materials included or contact for more info 

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  BC1DBE2B-AB0C-467F-954B-D62A13070089 Lavendar Bags
Time: 3-4 hours of 121 lessons
Level: suitable for complete beginners
Bring:
  • Materials included or contact for more info 

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Knitting In The Round
Level: Improver
Time: 1.5 hours of 3-5 hours of 121 lessons (if you have some knitting experience).

A few people have wanted to know how to knit in the round (this involves a circular needle or double pointed needles.We have a few of these in class to demonstrate this. You can bring your own needles for this or practise with ours (we have a limited number of these type and sizes of needles so may be good for practising only)

 

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Crochet necklace free pattern elise engh studios

Crochet Necklace
Time: 4-6 classes
Level: Improver
Bring: The free pattern and making instructions from Elise Engh Studios (here) plus any materials and needles listed in the pattern instructs

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Free online patterns

Bring along the ingredients they list & we can help you make them in class: 

 

 

Need advice on what pattern is suitable for your level of experience or help on what to bring? Email us here to ask

 

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Need advice or help on what to make in your lesson? Email us here to ask

 

 

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Where to buy knitting supplies

Needles: Our teachers often have a few knitting needles you can use in the class depending on the project (email us to ask about borrowing these),  but you may want to buy your own (they average £2 a pair at Closs&Hamblin on Western Rd Brighton) as then you can carry on at home in between classes - it's very addictive!! 

All supplies: C&H fabrics or Yak in Brighton, The Dropped Stitch in Portslade or Shoreham Knitting and Needlecraft in Shoreham, or try yell.com for knitting supplies shops in your local area.