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Hack your Crochet Hooks

16 July 2009 10,385 views 8 Comments

by heather

Attention Crocheters! Here's a nifty crochet hook hack from reader Red Paper Umbrella. Spend just a dollar to upgrade all your crochet hooks to comfort-style hooks using pencil grips from the dollar store. Back-to-School supplies are hitting shelves already, so now's a great time to do this project. [project instructions here]

Update Sept 2010: The Red Paper Umbrella page has completely disappeared off the face of the web, so the basic instructions are:

Wrap the bottom of your crochet hook with masking tape until it's about the width of a pencil. Slide two pencil grips onto hook.

Project Estimate:

Pencil grips, $1
Masking tape, on hand or $1
Crochet hooks, on hand

Total: $1 and up

8 Comments »

Kitten Muffin said:

I didn’t know these grips were at the dollar store. I’ll be picking some up if they are next time I go. I said no to a pack of grips like this that were three dollars last week. My four year old wanted to cut them up and make necklaces with them.

# 16 July 2009 at 9:17 am

Jeri said:

That is a really incredible idea – really thinking outside the box.

# 17 July 2009 at 9:46 am

RecycleCindy said:

What a cool and frugal idea for spicing up one’s old crochet hooks. I must check my local dollar store and see if they have any of these so I can try it. TFS!

# 19 July 2009 at 2:47 pm

Angelica Bays said:

::thud::

WOW! How simple, yet Fantastic!
(and I love the sparkles too ) ;o)

Hey! did you know they have flourescent colors in duct tape??
I got some at Micheals- but it wasn’t a dollar ;o(

# 23 July 2009 at 7:19 am

Bettie said:

They look really cute, but the link for the instructions is not working for me! :-(

# 1 August 2010 at 8:22 am

Jennifer R said:

I LUV THESE THEY LOOK SOOO AWESOME!!!!! Im just going to learn how to crochet so i dont know a lot about it but i would love to learn how to. Thank god i have my favorite teacher helping me. She used to own a business so she know a lot about it. I hope i can learn a lot from her.

# 10 December 2010 at 1:36 pm