How to Choose Hook Ideal Crochet
The correct hook size for crochet makes all the difference in your project, to choose the right hook you need a degree of knowledge, but nothing that is difficult to choose, with time you gain practical experience and everything is much easier and automatic.
When you start a project you must select a hook size suitable for the wire you are going to use, the sizes vary according to the material and brands, you may find hooks with the same specifications but with a variation in size even if small, it is possible to find the description in letters or number of the size.
The numbers found on the hooks represent the diameter of the shaft in millimeters, which is the relationship between the hook between the cable and the tip, so depending on the size of the shaft it will determine the size of your points. The hook size represented in letters is a U.S. standard and follows the alphabet “B” for a smaller hook and “Q” is larger, as the alphabet progresses the hook gets larger and larger.
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How to Choose Hook Ideal Crochet
Acquiring a good knowledge of hooks makes a huge difference in your projects, because choosing correctly helps to make your project look more professional and with better finishes. A tip for you, if you are finding that your crochet stitch is too much, try to reduce the size of the hook, because the yarn and the hook must correspond to each other. That is, for smaller yarns you should use a smaller hook and for a bulkier yarn a larger hook.
Having a good knowledge of the project you intend to start is very important to select the correct hook, there are several types of hooks and materials in which they are made, they can be made of steel, aluminum, plastics, bamboo, wood and other models.
For those who want to work with a steel needle it is recommended to work with crocheting thin threads, such as napkins, because they are the smallest sizes. Aluminum needles are more popular, there is a wide variety of sizes and the threads glide more smoothly. And there are also the custom wins, they are few more expensive but you can choose the color you want and put the designs you want.
Now if you intend to choose a more economical and popular hook the plastic ones are perfect and available in all sizes. There are also the ergonomic gains are usually designed to reduce the strain on your hands, they have larger softer handles that you can insert a regular gain into.
It can be a bit difficult at the beginning to choose the ideal wire and hook to work with, as there are numerous designs with different types of wire and the more variation in your designs the more gains you will need to have. So if you don’t plan to invest too much in the beginning, choose similar designs so you don’t have to keep changing them all the time.
I will leave a video tutorial below helping you to better understand the sizes of the ideal hooks, and I would like to leave the image and video credits to the official website of the content. So enjoy, because choosing ideal makes total difference in your project.
I will leave some suggestions for tutorials for you to practice in practice and better learn, after all you only learn who puts into practice, there are several tutorials on the site so you can practice, then follow us on our website and social networks, start your first crochet project now, after you learn will not want to stop.
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