Friday, April 6, 2007

Handmade crochet hooks

I really wanted to try making my own crochet hooks. It seems like all the larger sizes are made of cheap annoying plastic, and I wanted wood. After a few trips to San Lorenzo Lumber for various tools and about 2lbs of wood shavings on my floor, here's what I ended up with.


It was surprisingly hard work, so I don't know if I'll go into mass production, but I really like them. I don't know anybody else who has crochet hooks with foram woodburning.

2 comments:

Christie Rowe said...

Nice work testy. When are you launching testy_etsy? Judging from craftster response I think you might be on to something here.

Trifarina said...

Thanks faulty... I'm not sure about mass production because it was awful hard work, but the financial lure is quite powerful. I picked up some sticks behind the building over the weekend and my next plan is to try some redwood hooks...