She pressed her crochet hook against her lip and pondered.
The bit of lace at which she still languidly worked dropped from her fingers, and the steel crochet hook clattered to the floor.
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Make a slip-knot in yarn and put it on thecrochethookor right-hand needle.
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The definition may expand to include related textile crafts such as acrochethookor tatting shuttles.
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Some tatting instructors recommend using a tatting needle and acrochethookto work cro-tatting patterns.
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Knitting and crocheting involve interlacing loops of yarn, which are formed either on a knitting needle or on acrochethook, together in a line.
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Crochethooksizing is measured by the thickness of the tool's shaft.
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The cro-tatting tool is a tatting needle with acrochethookat the end.
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While this is not in itself a hook, it is a device used in conjunction with acrochethookto produce stitches.
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For example, many knitters use them to fix dropped knitting stitches, and tailors may use acrochethookto thread a drawstring through its casing.
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In the nineteenth century, crochet tatting patterns were published which simply called for acrochethook.
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One can also cro-tat with a bullioncrochethookor a very straightcrochethook.
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Round or cylindrical patterns are simple to produce with a regularcrochethook, but cylindrical knitting requires either a set of circular needles or three to five special double-ended needles.
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For example, using acrochethook, one can re-work them into larger knitted bights, e.g., by drawing four strands through the four below them, and so on indefinitely.
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Boot and shoe laces, sewing and darning needles, knitting pins, bodkins, crochet hooks, thimbles and tape measures are all exempt from tax—but elastic is not.
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Then there are sewing and darning needles, knitting needles, bodkins, crochet hooks, pins, thimbles, finger shields for needlework and tape measures.
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Some may also be used to gauge the size of crochet hooks.
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