Snowflakes

Thought I'd try out the snowflake pattern using different hook sizes as suggested.

I used my DK cotton yarn and hook sizes 4mm, 3mm and 2mm.

The 2mm one was rather fiddly but manageable.

I then tried the 2mm hook with some crochet cotton and also a finer cotton and a 1mm hook.

Have to say I couldn't even see the hook part of the 1mm hook! It was more done by feel and I often dropped the stitches!


Definitely challenging with the smallest hook size! Now I really need to get some spray starch and pin out all these new snowflakes.

Crochet Club - The Beginning

Welcome to the first edition of my Crochet Club blog.

I saw a post, on my local pages of "Streetlife" (now defunct), about wanting to learn how to crochet and offered to teach the basics.

We are starting next week right from the very beginning.


I will demonstrate how you hold the hook, yarn and work and start with a slip knot.

The first Basic Stitches we will cover are chain stitch (ch) , slip stitch (ss) and double crochet (dc).

At this juncture I must stress that this is a UK based blog and all the stitches will be the UK ones and not the American version. A conversion chart can be found Here

After we have mastered these stitches in rows, there is this lovely little Attic24 Snowflake  which we can make too.

I photographed it before (right) I pinned it out and after (above).

I'll be hanging mine on my Christmas tree this year for sure.