Dawn asks, “What holds your hooks?” A carved-wood thrift store find and a small, brown coffee mug from my childhood. Edited to add: The mug was given to me by the woman to taught me to crochet.

For travel, I use either an old, much-loved pencil case or the Pop Top from my secret pal.
What holds [...]

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Still lookin’ for those glittery plastic Skacel crochet hooks? They’re now available on the web, thanks to Chelsea, one of the fab members of Crochetville!

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When none of us could find these sparkly hooks anywhere online, Chelsea e-mailed her LYS, Y2Knit, which just so happens to have an online store as well, and they [...]

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You will not be seeing any of those sparkly crochet hooks on the web. It is beyond my understanding, but I guess Skacel just doesn’t have much interest in selling them. Perhaps they want certain products to remain exclusive… available in fine yarn shops only, if you know what I mean. Here is the e-mail [...]

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Isn’t she beautiful?

Must have a close-up.
This gorgeous thing arrived in my mailbox yesterday from the gracious and generous Vera. It’s not my prize from her contest. This hook was already on its way to me before that. It was sheer coincidence that I was the only one to correctly answer the contest question as well.
Anyhow, [...]

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Vacation is nice, but it’s good to be home. There’s no place like home.
I did indeed find quite a bit of time to crochet, but I can’t show you because it’s a secret! I know, I know, enough of the secrets. But this is a special gift for someone whom I’m fairly certain reads my [...]

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