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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: Linda Subject: Kool Aid Containers Comment: Kool Aid containers work great for all kinds of small items. You can keep your crochet hooks in them, I have a pattern for crochet pot holders that require bone rings, those can be stashed there also. Another neat idea for the kool aid containers. If you are a dog lover, get the larger containers and use them for a dog water. You can take them with you and the large lid works great for a bowl. I even made a carrier so I can take it with me when I walk my dog. It works great!!!!! Name: Jody Subject: Make a pattern easier to follow Comment: I make photo copies of my patterns and then cut them up by rows. I glue each row on a recipe card. When a pattern calls for several repeats of a row, I make that many more photo copies and cut them out and past them on more cards. I label each card with the number of the row. I punch a hole in one corner of the cards and then hold them together with a loop. I also like to add a card with a picture of the project as a cover card for the pattern. As I work each row I can fold it over and be ready for the next row. Name: Figsprettyeyes Subject: Yarn Holders Comment: Any Used coffee can will do nicely to hold a ball of yarn for your current project. Also some grocery store chains sell icecream in gallon "buckets" that can hold up to two balls of yarn at once. Name: Shay Kaur :) Subject: awesomely awesome granny square scarf =D Comment: hey guys im 13 years old and i just came up with a idea:)if you have a load of scraps, just make tham into loads of granny squares, sew them in rows of 4, and after a while, hey presto, you got yourself an awesome scarf:) making this for ma friend for cristmas:) Name: Aparna Gadgil Subject: Hook Holder Comment: We can make a good hook and scissors holder of OHP sheet. OHP sheet is easy to fold to the size we need. Make a box of required length, width and depth. It makes the great see through, light weight container. Name: Aparna Gadgil Subject: Afgans Comment: While crocheting Afgan Carpet, calculate the no of squares you need for the carpet. Decide the colours and their order. Then first begin with the center colour. Complete all the squares you need. Start with the second colour, complete all the squares and so on. This helps you to carry only one colour thread at a time. Also when you are done with last chosen colour, only job left is to join the squares. And your carpet is READY! Name: Aparna Gadgil Subject: hook holder Comment: Take a plastic straw. Fold one end and staple it to close opening. Insert your hook into the straw. Fold the open end and hold on the safety pin. One straw can hold two to three hooks. One safty pin can hold 8 to 10 straws. Name: Lynda Subject: storing crochet hooks Comment: I keep my crochet hooks in a round tin can from Michael's. My hooks are mostly metal and the can makes a great toy for entertaining the tots too! Name: G Renee Subject: ergonomic needles Comment: An easy way to make your favorite needle easier to grip, is to mold sculpy bake clay around a metal crochet hook and bake as instructed. Put a thumb and finger grip where you need it. One block will do three or four hooks for a buck on sale. Name: Betty Subject: To follow graph patterns Comment: I do alot of chart afghans and to keep what row I am on I have my patterns in page protectors. At wal mart I purchased a metal board that came with a magnetic ruler, I put my pattern on a clip board and follow the pattern with the magnetic ruler. Works great for following any pattern but especially row by row graphs. (I never write on my patterns) Hope it helps. Name: Natasha Subject: Nice gift presentation Comment: If you want to make a crocheted gift look even snazzier you can put it in a nice zippered bag. I always save the zippered plastic bags that things like sheets or curtains come in. I pre wash in hypoallergenic detergent and slip care instructions inside because many people today have no idea how to care for crochet items. Name: maureen Subject: tangled yarn Comment: I too have found myself staring at those plastic yarn keepers in the craft stores but can't justify spending the money on them. I have found that a shoebox works just as well. Simply poke a hole in the box and thread the yarn through. It keeps the yarn from tangling and you can see the yarn whenever you want by opening the lid. if you are working on a project with multiple yarns you can even poke two holes in one side of the box. I have found that two skeins of most yarns will fit nicely side by side. Name: Nastassja Subject: weaving in ends Comment: I found if you don't have or cant use a needle for weaving in ends you can use a crochet hook. You just have to put the hook threw wherever your weaving in hook the yarn on it and pull it threw. Name: Crocheting Mom Subject: Marking the place of a pattern Comment: I got an idea recently from someone to use sticky notes to mark the place of a crochet pattern as I'm working on it, between breaks, to keep my place. Also to put the pattern in a plastic file cover, so the sticky note won't get snagged off and your patterns stay nice and dry, don't get wrinkled. Before doing this, I would sometimes mark with pen on the pattern itself, or use a separate notebook entirely. I find the sticky notes so much more convenient. Name: Dee Duerson Subject: Hook holders Comment: Since you only use up to three crochet hooks at a time. I've recycled the tubes from the holiday candies like m&m's cut it down to fit the size of my hooks. These work well for Knitting needles as well. Then you dont have little pulls from the hooks getting the project inadvertently while you travel. 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 51 52 53 54 55 Next >> Share your own hints by filling in the form below... |
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