Jofrog is Knitfrog!
April 8 2005
Yesterday I stopped at In Stitches in Weston, MA to pick up a steel crochet hook. The pattern calls for #9, they had all even numbers from #2 to #14. I got a #10, a little tiny bit smaller seemed better to me. Look at this thing! It's S-M-A-L-L! Last night, after dinner, I pulled out my yarn, I pulled out my #6/0 beads, and I took my new hook out of the package. Everything looked to be a go. I cast on, I knit three rows in garder stitch, I knit up to my first bead, I pull out some beads to put them on my hook, the holes are too small! The beads are the right size, my hook is slightly smaller than is called for, and the holes in the beads are too small! Arg! On average four out of every twenty beads would fit on, but that's a lot of pre-screening and only adds to the fiddly nature of this project. That said, I did make a little bit of progress, and here it is, for your viewing pleasure! I am not taking a trip out to Weston again any time soon. The only other place that is convinient that I can find steel crochet hooks is Windsor Button downtown. A good friend blogger that I know works right by there. Maybe she wouldn't mind picking up a #12 hook for me before knitsmiths on Sunday? No pressure Colleen!No Soaring Here
If it can make a US1 needle look big, you know it's small!
