For those of you who are about to try crochet for the first time, or those who already know the basics, you’ll be able to master the art of crochet in Ylvia’s Crochet class.
Students will learn:
- All about different yarns crochet hooks
- How to comfortably hold a crochet hook and the yarn
- Basic stitches, including chain, slip stitch, single crochet, half-double crochet, double crochet.
- How to work in rows and rounds
- How to increase and decrease
- How to crochet a basic motif for creating scarves or Afghan motif.
Supply List:
- Super saver Red Heart medium yarn. Can be similar size or brand yarn too if you have already have it.
- 5.5 mm crochet hook.
This class is offered as part of Perkins Folklife Center programming. Special pricing for these classes and workshops is made possible with support from NJ State Council on the Arts.
https://perkinsarts.org/folk-life-center/
Artist Bio:
YLVIA ASAL was born in the Black Sea area of Turkey. She believes she was actually born an artist. Her formative education, at the Girls' Traditional, Technical and Vocational Middle/High School, was followed by an intensive arts program in Istanbul, focusing on technique and design, along with accounting.
As a multimedia artist, Ylvia works with a wide array of mediums: sculpture with Clay, wax and fabric (soft sculpture), painting, and textile art such as working with fabric and yarn. Her greatest passion is ‘making lace’, which is a centuries old technique of creating handmade lace. Her life in the United States took her to Business Accounting school in Philadelphia and in 2012, she opened her art business, Anatolia Art and Crafts Studio. Ylvia received the New Beginnings Awards from the State of New Jersey as well as an award for Outstanding Achievement honoring her for her art business in 2015. She was honored to be chosen as a NJ Council for the Arts Fellow in 2018. She also participated in the Tastefully South Jersey exhibit at the Perkins Center for the Arts in Collingswood, NJ.
She has been a Teaching Artist in Belly Dancing, Lace Making, Embroidery, Turkish Paper Marbling “Ebru” and the Art of Turkish Food at the Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, NJ, as well as in local art centers. Ylvia is always looking for new opportunities to share her ideas and her love of the artsby exhibiting, teaching, participating in and partnering with other artists, communities and cultural organizations.
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