Fundamentals of Crochet
Curious about crochet but not sure where to begin? We got you! Learn with Malavika Rao.
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Service Description
Curious about crochet but not sure where to begin? This three-week course is designed for complete beginners and anyone looking to build a strong foundation in the craft while exploring creative ways to work with reclaimed materials. During the first week, students will learn the essential crochet stitches, develop confidence with tension, and become comfortable reading their work through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice. In the second week, we’ll explore sustainable approaches to crochet by learning how to reclaim yarn from thrifted knitwear, identify fibers suitable for unraveling, and experiment with alternative materials such as plastic-yarn and fabric yarn made from textile offcuts. Students will then begin a beginner-friendly project of their choice. The final session is dedicated to troubleshooting, refining techniques, and receiving individual guidance while completing projects. By the end of the course, students will leave with a finished project, a strong understanding of crochet fundamentals, and the confidence to continue making with both new and reclaimed materials. No experience necessary! About the artist: Malavika Rao is a multidisciplinary artist and educator primarily working in fiber, and installation. Malavika’s practice recontextualizes practices of homemaking as methods of worldmaking, using craft to heal generational trauma and tend to the fragile relationship between care and survival. In their installations, malavika employs various crafting practices as modes of speculative world-building—creating spaces to interrogate inherited structures of care. They propose alternative relational frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective sustenance, invoking a deeper, cosmological sense of interconnectedness, where the act of making becomes a ritual of repair, attunement, and orientation toward life-affirming futures. Malavika just returned to Los Angeles after serving as the Spring 2025 Fiber Fellow at Colorado College, where they taught a course on quiltmaking and developed new work for a solo exhibition featuring a large-scale patchworked installation and story quilts. https://malavikarao.com/
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Cancellation Policy
Studio Policies Payment in full is needed at the time of registration. Student cancellations more than 4 weeks in advance of a workshop are fully refundable, minus a 20% processing fee. Cancellations 2-4 weeks in advance are 50% refundable, minus a 20% processing fee. There is no refund for cancellations made less than 2 weeks before the workshop. The only exception to this policy is if your spot can be filled from a waitlist, in which case you will receive your refund minus a 20% processing fee. If a workshop is cancelled by an Instructor for any reason you will receive a full refund, unless you prefer to apply your payment to another workshop.