Give new life to your clothes—or create beautiful handmade accessories—by learning to crochet botanical appliqués using sustainable materials and traditional crochet techniques.
In this creative and hands-on workshop, we’ll focus on making crochet flowers and leaves that can be sewn onto garments to mend, decorate, or upcycle. Whether you’d like to embellish a jacket, jeans, or shirt, or turn your creations into brooches or hair pins, you’ll leave with versatile, wearable pieces you made yourself.
Dutch wool hand-dyed using botanical and natural dyes will be availbe for purchase at the workshop. All materials provided are completely sustainable, chosen with care for the planet and your creativity.
What you’ll learn:
- How to crochet various flowers and leaves (with options tailored to your skill level)
- Working with the magic loop and in the round
- How to read crochet charts and diagrams
- Key stitches used: chain, single crochet, double crochet, half-double crochet, and treble crochet
This workshop is suitable for practiced beginners—you should be familiar with making single and double crochet stitches. I’ll guide you through the rest step-by-step.
Details:
Date & Time: June 7, 10.00 to 12.30
Location: New Order of Fashion Lab, 22-06 Torenallee, Eindhoven
Price: €25 per person
Materials: Bring your own materials. This workshop is great for using left-over yarns, as each flower only requires a small amount. Feel free to bring different yarn weights and matching hooks.
Dutch wool, hand-dyed with botanical dyes is available for sale at the workshop. You can purchase a set of 3 dyed and 1 natural (total of 20gr) cake for 5 Euros.
Please bring a 4.5 mm or 5 mm crochet hook.
Language
This workshop is held in Dutch and English. We’ll adjust the instruction language as needed to make sure everyone can follow comfortably.
Join us for a slow, creative afternoon and make something beautiful with your hands—something to wear, repair, or cherish.
Limited spots available – reserve yours now.
