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earthyvirgo
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Nell Merionwen
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madcat
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Nell Merionwen
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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madcat
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MullersLaneFarm
Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 24 Location: Illinois, USA
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It seems in my area that the fiber arts is taking an upswing and it is hard to find knitting needles, crochet hooks, yarn or even wool sweaters in thrift stores (i.e. 2nd hand stores or what all y'all call charity shops).
I have more aluminum hooks than anything else (bone, wood, steel, plastic) and love them to death. Have have some Boye hooks that were my grandmothers (from the 1960's). I even have one of my Great-grandmother's steel hooks ... a size 16 !!! She used size 30 thread for a huge crocheted table cloth (It fits my kitchen table that is over 8' long and 3.5' across ... um ... about 2.4 meters by 1.1 meters)
Interesting, rubbing toothpaste on the hooks. Never heard of that before.
On wooden hooks (or knitting needles) I rub with a very, very fine steel wool, then finish with wax paper. For bone hooks/needles, I just use a very, very fine steel wool. (My DH has made me hooks/needles from the leg bone of our first milk cow. Soon he'll be making some from my hinney (like a mule, but parentage crossed) who passed last month. My hinney was about 40 years old! Almost as old as I was!!! |
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AnnaD
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Haze
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MullersLaneFarm
Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 24 Location: Illinois, USA
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