Jo and I love Earth-friendly craft projects (just check out our collection of “green” posts) and we are always excited to see new project ideas that involve recycling, upcycling, or reusing. So we were tickled pink when we were reading Lady Willow’s Treehouse and saw a fun idea for turning old pens and other items into neat, recycled handles for crochet hooks of all sizes.
Having done a little bit of crochet myself, I know how frustrating it can be to hold the tinier hooks comfortably in your hand while you work. I can only imagine how difficult it must be for those with arthritis or whose fingers aren’t as nimble in colder weather. What those tiny hooks need is a big fat handle!
Lady Willow will show you how to raid your desk drawer to find lots of great potential handles. From the cheapest of stick pens to the finest wooden writing instruments, anything is fair game, as long as it’s the right size and comfortable in your hand. She even makes a handle out of an old Sharpie!
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This is perfect for older crocheters or those with problems with their hands. This is a great way, also, to personalize my crochet hooks.
Great tip!
I am making a set for my grandmother for Christmas. She will be quite pleased, I believe.
You are a right smart lady!! I’ve been crocheting fer dern near 150 yrs now n’ ol’ Uncle Arthur n’ Mean Aunt Rhumy (in other words rheumy arthritis) visit me so often these days that I thought I was gonna have to give up one of the few things that give me pleasure that the governments hadn’t outlawed or taxed the high bejeezers out of. My friend here was lookin’ at yer world-wide-web site you got here n she hollared at me to takes a looksie–well–i grabbed the first fountain pen I could n’ after my friend here took it away from me (who ever heard of a 75 dollar pen anyhows), she got me one of those pens I keep stealin’ from the doctor’s office (make me wait 45 minutes in the reception and then 45 more minutes in the li’l cold room wearin’ a paper dress just to look at my tonsils n mumble somethin’ n leave aftrer 3 minutes, by-dog, i’ll grab all the pens i wants) anywho’s, she made me the finest handle for my hook that a PfizerTM pen ever could . Whew! I sorry I wrote so much–I gets a might long-winded when I ams excited ’bout somethin’. So long story even longer: THANK YOU! N’ ifin’ you ever gets ’round my big city, drop in n’ i’ll show ya what i made with my new handled hook!!! Yers Truly, The Citified Redneck
Valkeray, we’re so glad you liked this project idea. Congrats on the new crochet hook!