Tips 'n Tricks

Do 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!

Monday, January 09, 2006Name: 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.

Thursday, January 05, 2006Name: 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 :-)

Thursday, January 05, 2006Name: 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 :)

Wednesday, January 04, 2006Name: 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.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006Name: 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!

Tuesday, January 03, 2006Name: 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!

Sunday, January 01, 2006Name: 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.

Sunday, December 25, 2005Name: 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.

Sunday, December 25, 2005Name: 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.

Sunday, December 25, 2005Name: 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.

Wednesday, December 21, 2005Name: 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!

Tuesday, December 20, 2005Name: Tassni

Subject: Crochet

Comment: Alwaws remember to take your time and do the best that you can and while you are at it teach a friend to crochet.

Tuesday, December 20, 2005Name: eden

Subject: holding the hook

Comment: Hi, I wrap a rubber band around the non-working end of the hook, wrap and twist style. I find this keeps the hook in my hand where I want it. My grip isn't as good as it used to be, and this helps.

Thanks

Monday, December 19, 2005Name: toni

Subject: crochet

Comment: i make tote bags and rugs from grocery bags. they are very useful and pretty.

Friday, December 16, 2005Name: Michelle

Subject: finishing

Comment: When you are weaving in the loose ends, use a hook which is a size smaller than the one you used originally. For me it makes it much easier.

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