Design and Stitching of Crochet Socks

If you’re crazy about sneakers and love to stitch your own looks, then this is the course for you! After wowing us with Creating Garments Using Crochet, Alimaravillas shares her passion for crocheting and customizing socks.

Join her in learning how to crochet a range of different socks, starting with a basic model and ending up with your own customized designs featuring initials and even whole sentences. Discover techniques that you can apply to other pieces of clothing and have an entire closet full of creations in next to no time.

Alicia, better known as Alimaravillas, starts by telling you all about her experience as a teacher. She also talks about why her teaching style is a little different as she puts you at the center of your own learning experience. She then shares how she finds inspiration in her surroundings.

Find out all you need to know to crochet your own socks, from the tools and materials to the techniques for creating different sizes. Study the structure of a sock laid out flat, and use it to build up to a 3D format, getting to know the pattern and its various possibilities.

Now it’s time to get to work! First, look at the different stitches for your chosen design. Shape the front part of the sock by increasing and decreasing until the toe takes shape. Then, create volumes to form the heel and invisible seams to join the sides.

Alicia goes on to show you how to manifest the ideas you have on paper in your needlework, then the endless ways to customize your piece. Learn how to work your initials and even full sentences into the patterns by calculating it according to the different parts of each sock.