Tunisian Crochet Stitch Exploration with Toni Lipsey — March 2023

Tunisian Crochet Stitch Exploration with Toni Lipsey

Teacher: Toni Lipsey

Cost: $55

When: Saturday, March 11, 2:15–4:15pm

Description: Dive deeper into the world of Tunisian crochet as you learn four unique and beautiful stitches with guest instructor Toni Lipsey. Under her guidance, you’ll master close textures, lacy patterns, and beginner colorwork. Finally, you’ll combine those stitches with joining and finishing techniques for a beautiful and unique sampler blanket.

Toni Lipsey, the designer and instructor behind TL Yarn Crafts, strives to spark others’ creativity through online tutorials and modern, approachable crochet patterns. Toni learned to crochet from her mother as a teenager and has been exploring the possibilities of yarn ever since. She offers hundreds of crochet patterns on her website and thousands of hours of crochet instruction and inspiration on her YouTube channel. When she’s not crocheting, you can find Toni cuddled with her two kittens and husband in her Michigan home, binge-watching the latest true-crime thriller. Follow her daily crochet journey on Instagram, and pick up her book, The Tunisian Crochet Handbook, and patterns on tlyarncrafts.com. 

Prerequisites: Students should be comfortable working the Tunisian crochet foundation row and simple stitch.

Homework: None

Min/max number of participants: 5/15

Materials to bring along:

• Size K/6.5mm crochet hook (corded or straight, with no embellishments). For a straight hook, we suggest Lykke or ChiaoGoo Bamboo; for a corded hook you can purchase the cord and hook components separately.
• Three skeins (one each of 3 colors) of Berroco Vintage or Berroco Pima 100, purchased from Spun
• scissors
• tapestry needle
• tape measure
• locking stitch markers