Crochet Forum: SCRUMBLERS UNITE!!
Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2003
Workshop Outlines
Susie Bowring-Miller | Jenny Dowde | Prudence Mapstone | James Walters
James Walters's Main Workshop:
" The Garden of Eden …"
James maintains that to keep our awareness fresh and appetite keen we all need to go back to basics from time to time, to re-visit our own 'Garden of Eden' where everything is new and exciting, where there are no 'usual' or 'traditional' ways we 'must' do or look at things and where ... errmmm ... almost everything is allowed.
He will take your hand and lead you through the basic procedures of stitch- and fabric-making in a new way – this time, sins will be instantly forgiven and 'slips' will naturally be rewarded with extra points!
[The photographs below – courtesy of Pam North – are all from Sylvia and James's workshop for New South Wales Knitters – Sydney, May 1997]
Sylvia and James with the 'Blue Butterfly' dress.
Practical time will mainly be concentrated on experiments which may (but do not have to) work up into something big. The emphasis will be upon how to make things happen your way and how to make most use of the opportunities which are gifted to you when, as so often, they don't!
Sylvia assembling a 'scrumble'
We shall re-visit all the 'scrumbling' techniques James and Sylvia taught up to 1997 and discover some more
Sylvia's Pebble Rug
Level of skill/experience:
Absolute beginners are welcome, but if, before you come, you make yourself
reasonably fluent with the basic processes of making crochet chains, plus
single and double crochet stitches, the more you will get out of this workshop
and the convention as a whole by a very long way.
James using a video camera and TV to 'broadcast' a close-up
Students to bring:
• at least one crochet hook
• some yarn to 'fit' this
• scissors
• tapestry needle for sewing up
• better still:
a selection of hooks to 'fit' as much assorted yarn as you can bring, that
is, different colours, textures and qualities which work together, including
plain and smooth, matt and glossy, knobbly, bobbly, fluffy, nubby, slubby,
shiny, furry, slithery … now don't panic – whatever you bring
will be just fine! … and there will be more advice on James's website
eventually, at:
http://crochet.nu/
Materials, etc, charges:
Probably none – don't know yet ...
James's Short Programme
(3-hour Workshop)
" To begin at the beginning …"
This covers the same ground as the first part of the Main (Three-day) Workshop. Students will be given a comprehensive new look at all the basics. After the main presentation there will probably be some time left to start trying some of them with a new purpose and ambition.