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3. Getting acquainted with the crochet hook

Photo Caption:

1. Body
1.1. Handle
1.2. Pad
2. Head
2.1.Neck/Thread Guide
2.2.Throat
2.3.Lip

4. Holding the crochet hook

You must hold the crochet hook on your right hand and the work on the left one if you’re right handed or the other way around if you’re left-handed. The way you hold the hook and the work is precisely the same, you only have to inverse the hands. The site of the Crochet Guild of America provides some demonstrative pictures for left-handed crotchetiers.

4.1. Method 1: Holding the hook as a pencil

 

(right hand)

 

(left hand)

 

 

 

Link to left-hander version

 

According to one of my books (O Grande Livro dos Lavores, 1985, p. 360) and some demos I’ve been watching on the net, you can hold the crochet hook as a knife or as a pencil (see photos). I use mine as a pencil, which means, with the hook lip facing down, I hold the pad between my thumb and my index with my hand standing under the hook handle and the thumb resting on my middle finger (frequently I use my middle finger over the hook neck to guide its movements).

4.2. Method 2: Holding the hook as a knife

(right hand)

(left hand)

 

 

 

 Link to left-hander version

To hold your hook as a knife, once again with the hook lip facing down, you have to hold the pad between your thumb and your index finger, but within this method your hand must stand over the hook handle and the other fingers will help holding it.

On the demos, I try to show how to use the hook both ways. Although I’m quicker and more efficient holding it as a pencil, which is the way I learned when I was a child, I think with a little practice I could adapt to hold it as a knife. It didn’t felt very odd or impossible to change. So, try it yourself, practice a little both ways and decide which suits you best.

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