Crochet Hook Tips & Advice

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Beth Essington for Expert Village. We are going to talk a little bit about crochet hooks. There are so many kinds out there. They have been making hooks for hundreds and hundreds of years, nobody really knows how crocheting began. They think that probably back hundreds of years ago, maybe for a lack of objects to get or whatever but they needed things to make clothing with and so a lot of times it would be torn up blankets or used clothing or a used sweater that they would undo and then redo with their thread. There is all different ones. This particular crochet hook is very nice; it is made for your hand and if you, for people with arthritis this is a great one because it is not as tight to hold onto because you have a nice little kind of a padded little rubber handle, it works very very well. This is just fancy, nothing special just plastic with some little glitter in it, just fun that is all. A long time ago and some women are still doing it today, you can make little tiny doilies or little lace things and you can't probably see the end of this but it is a tiny tiny hook and you use it for a crochet cotton which is a very very thin, not even really a yarn, more like a little tiny string and this is for a very delicate work. It is pretty time consuming but very rewarding. This particular one here is made out of bone. I don't even remember where I got this but there is a few floating around, I don't think they are legal anymore but anyway you can still find them once in a while and it has a little bit of a curve kind of pretty look to it and a little top there. This is a very long one, I don't know why I guess the company just likes to make long crochet hooks. This is a nice big fat one, you would use this for like the very very thick bulky yarns. I have even crocheted ribbons and strips of fabric with these before and they make up very nice, they are very cute. This is another bone one, they use to make them out of ivory years ago, but of course that is illegal now but this is very pretty too and its got a real pretty little design on it. Okay, these are afghan hooks; this is for a different kind of stitch where you end up basically putting on quiet a few stitches on so you need a longer hook than you would with just your regular size. They have a hook at one end, this particular one has a little stop at the other end. So if you get like say fifty or a hundred stitches on here, this will stop it from ever slipping off cause you don't want to lose your stitches. So they are fun to work with too. "