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        Interested in knitting? Visit our sister site: Knitting Pattern Central  | Tips 'n TricksDo you have a helpful hint or handy trick that will make any aspect of crocheting easier? Share it! Post ideas on scrap yarn usages, stitch markers, starching, hook organization, color changing, maintaining your sanity while following a difficult pattern, etc. There is most probably someone out there that will benefit from your help. Need ideas yourself? Read others' comments--we all live and learn! Name: Denise Subject: scrap yarn Comment: Many crocheters have lots of scraps of varying thickness yarn and thread. It's hard to find ideas that combine all sizes. Try using thread as an edging for that scrapghan, or twist 3 or 4 threads for a "4-ply" yarn. Or use 2 strands of 4-ply as a "bulky weight". Another great idea is the russian joining method (found on this site!) to combine all those pieces (same size) into one variegated yarn or thread. Name: Heather Subject: binder portfolio Comment: I filled a plastic 3-ring binder with clear page protectors. I put my patterns in the page protectors. When I finish a project, I slip a picture of it in with the pattern. In the front of the binder is a flat canvas pencil case (the kind made for a 3-ring binder) with a clear front that holds my hooks, small scissors, and yearn needles. Name: Donna C Subject: Holding hooks Comment: Just another way to hold crochet hooks by your side... How about those stands they sell for holding multiple toothbrushes? I see them at yard sales and thrift stores all the time. Name: Kendra Subject: Blocking Comment: You don't need anything special to block pieces. I just pin them to the floor. It's free, gives you a lot of working space and the carpet backing holds the pins in place perfectly. Just make sure both your carpet and your work are clean and colorfast first. Name: renee Subject: working on the move Comment: i walk and crochet. i have two other friends who do the same. what we do is keep our yarn in a drawstring bag across our backs. whichever yarn you working with goes at the top with the end fed through the drawstring entrance. it feeds out smoothly without having to worry about getting caught in a zipper. im 22 and i agree that more people should teach young people how to crochet or knit or anything creative. Name: Eve Subject: Keeping Cats Away Comment: Usually cats like to play with yarn, you can stop them from tangling up your yarn by keeping them busy with another ball. I Make medium size balls using leftover yarn. this way they are happy and I and happy! Hope this works :-) Name: Grace Subject: Keeping your place Comment: I don't know about you but i hate losing my place and then having to start over again. What I do is I take a post-it note and stick it to the bottom of the row i am working on.(on the pattern. not the crochet!) Then when I move on I know exactly where I am. Another purpose the post-it serves it that you can keep track of rows with a pen or pencil on the post-it. This system works for me and i hope it works for you :) Name: Anna Subject: Air plane trouble Comment: As most of you know scissors are currently banned from air planes. To cut your yarn inflight you can use nail clippers or a box of floss. Both work, but the floss works best with smaller string. Name: Hannah Subject: winding yarn Comment: have you ever started a progect and for some reason have to rip it all out? I have. Then, of course, you have to wind it all back on your skien of yarn. Or you can cut the yarn and roll it onto a seperate ball. If you're like me you don't like to have balls of yarn everywhere. SO I made up this way to rewind yarn. I hope it will help you: wind yarn around your skien until it is pretty stiff. Then fold your skien in half and start winding again. THis way you don't end up with a big long skinny skien of yarn. It's so simple (as you can see) Hope this helped someone! Name: Wendy Subject: doing doilies Comment: I taught myself to crochet and have been doing doilies. I drop my roll of string onto a wooden paper towel holder. One of those stand alone kind. My grandfather made me one but you can buy them too. It keeps my string in one place and it takes hardly any pressure for it to unroll as I go. I don't have to pull on it and have it roll away. Works Awesome! Name: Kayla Subject: Keep your place Comment: When I leave projects alone in the corner, the stitches can get pulled out so I attatch a key ring to the working loop so it can't unwind. Name: Bob Davey Subject: For beginners Comment: Relax and take it easy. Try to make all your chains the same size as a habit and then hook size changes stitch size. Don't pull it tight, it's yarn not cable. Name: Heather Subject: A MINE Comment: If you are a member of crafting circles your scisors tend to be picked up by other members. I lost a piece that to a stocking that I was working on and made another. Then I found it(of course lol). I then made another and SC then together. I tied ribbon through a corner and my scissors. Now I have an Identifyer to my scisors and a nifty holder for my needle and safty pins (I use as markers or to keep the loop from slipping out when I am not working on it) and hook durring a break. It helps keep your needle seperated while working on a project. Name: Dorothy Steiner Subject: counting rounds Comment: When doing a piece that requires keeping track of rounds or rows....just use a bobby pin to mark the begining or the end of the round or row and move it to the next round or row as required. Name: Claire Subject: clipping yarn Comment: This handy hint was passed onto me from a fellow crocheter. Use nail clippers for cutting yarn - great to travel with, on or off the plane - it fit in my change purse! Select a Page << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Next >> Share your own hints by filling in the form below... |
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