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Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9714
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 12 12:19 am Post subject:
metal is ok, but i prefer wood

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 12 7:55 am Post subject:
I use them as they are the only ones I can buy here, but bone is somehow more 'alive' in your hand. I dislike wood.

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 12 8:14 pm Post subject:
I have some and find them ok,I polished some aluminium needles with toothpaste cos they were a bit snaggy and they seem much improved.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sat Jan 14, 12 8:16 pm Post subject:
I have misplaced all of my hooks except one. I have bought a whole new set in aluminium. They were on sale

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 12:43 pm Post subject:
Wheres the best place to buy them,I have only got a few odd ones mostly small sizes.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 12:46 pm Post subject:
I got mine from amazon

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Jan 16, 12 2:41 pm Post subject:

madcat wrote:

Wheres the best place to buy them,I have only got a few odd ones mostly small sizes.

charity shop!

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Wed Jan 18, 12 8:50 pm Post subject:
funny enough I never found any sizes i don't already have when searching through the charity shops but I have got some nice short dps and some handy short needles for knitting from them.I like the old patterns as well.

MullersLaneFarm

Joined: 28 Jan 2012
Posts: 24
Location: Illinois, USA

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 2:57 am Post subject:

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!!!

AnnaD

Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Posts: 2777
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 9:11 am Post subject:
Did you get the coloured ones from Amazon? That's what I have

Haze

Joined: 24 May 2011
Posts: 33
Location: South Wales

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 9:42 am Post subject:
I've only got aluminim hooks, so can't compare them really. Always wanted the coloured hooks but my mum bought me a complete set of the usual grey ones so I can't really justify buying new ones!

MullersLaneFarm

Joined: 28 Jan 2012
Posts: 24
Location: Illinois, USA

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 9:55 am Post subject:
In the UK, all the aluminum hooks are grey??? Wow! The only grey aluminum hook I have in my collection is a size G (4 mm) made in the USA by HERO. The rest of my aluminum hooks are made by Boyle and are all colored.

Bulgarianlily

Joined: 01 Jun 2008
Posts: 1667
Location: South West Mountains of Bulgaria

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 10:32 am Post subject:
Here they are vivid colours, purple, blue, red. They are very cheap, do people want some? Maybe I should put some on our book website, (under knitting and other craft books?) also the set of five hooked needles they use here. Is there a market for new bone hooks?

toggle

Joined: 30 Dec 2006
Posts: 11622
Location: truro

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 2:47 pm Post subject:
i soudln't mind some cheap coloured hooks.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Sun Jan 29, 12 3:53 pm Post subject:
the ones I got from Amazon were all coloured

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