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7:59pm February 25, 2014
I got a bamboo cro hook (double-sided crochet hook) and started learning Tunisian crochet in the round.  It’s different from regular crochet, it acts a little bit like knitting, and the end result resembles weaving.  When doing it in the round, the hook basically travels around the circle, putting on stitches with one skein of yarn and then pulling them off again with the other skein. In other news, Ravelry is an amazing website.  I ran into them once ages ago but they were invitation-only back then and I wasn’t able to knit or crochet so I didn’t pay very much attention.  Now, though, if you have an email address you can sign up.  You can catalog all your yarns, your projects, your hooks and needles, and all kinds of things.  Although I do wish they had as many options for types of crochet hook as they do for knitting needles – I’d like to be able to classify Tunisian crochet hooks and cro hooks and the like separately from regular ones, the way you can classify double-pointed and circular knitting needles separately.  I’d also like an easy way to classify the material a hook is made out of, other than what I’m doing now (which is adding that into the description).  Like metal, wood, plastic, bamboo, etc. You can also keep track of your current projects, post on forums, and search for patterns, both free and for pay.  And people buy and sell yarn there.  There’s so much going on I haven’t explored half of it.

I got a bamboo cro hook (double-sided crochet hook) and started learning Tunisian crochet in the round.  It’s different from regular crochet, it acts a little bit like knitting, and the end result resembles weaving.  When doing it in the round, the hook basically travels around the circle, putting on stitches with one skein of yarn and then pulling them off again with the other skein.

In other news, Ravelry is an amazing website.  I ran into them once ages ago but they were invitation-only back then and I wasn’t able to knit or crochet so I didn’t pay very much attention.  Now, though, if you have an email address you can sign up.  You can catalog all your yarns, your projects, your hooks and needles, and all kinds of things.  Although I do wish they had as many options for types of crochet hook as they do for knitting needles – I’d like to be able to classify Tunisian crochet hooks and cro hooks and the like separately from regular ones, the way you can classify double-pointed and circular knitting needles separately.  I’d also like an easy way to classify the material a hook is made out of, other than what I’m doing now (which is adding that into the description).  Like metal, wood, plastic, bamboo, etc.

You can also keep track of your current projects, post on forums, and search for patterns, both free and for pay.  And people buy and sell yarn there.  There’s so much going on I haven’t explored half of it.