Hook Case

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Are you storing your crochet hooks in a glass or vase? Is it frustrating to find the right size of hook when you're in a hurry?

Sew Bitter Sweet's tutorial for a crochet hook case, with great photos, provides a way to organize your hooks for easy access and convenient storage.

Getting Hooked

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Twist Collective breaks down the process of crocheting in the Getting Hooked post. The post provides clear photos of how to hold a crochet hook and how to do the basic stitches.

Crochet is also a skill that many knitters use for provisional cast on, adding trim to knit items, and even picking up stitches.

Umbrella Swift

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An umbrella swift is a useful tool for those who spin or knit. The swift makes is easy to wind hanks of yarn into balls/cakes, but it is also useful in winding yarn into hanks.

Heart Strings Fiber Arts shares some tips on the use of umbrella swifts on their website.  The tips include how to reduce the tension on the yarn when using the swift.

A printable pdf of the information is also available here.

Felting Sweaters

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Yesterday's post used felted sweaters to make cozy mittens.

Felting old sweaters for the mittens is easy and explained on this Stumbles and Stitches Felt Week post.

Go through the closet or storage bins and find sweaters (past their prime) to felt and let your imagination and creativity loose.

Sweater Mittens

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Turn an old, felted sweater into some cozy mittens for the cold weather that will be here in a few months.

A complete photo tutorial can be found on this Make and Do Crew's post.

Big Batch HSTs

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Quilters, if you've dreaded making multiple half-square triangles (HSTs), then the tutorial on A Quilter's Table may be just what you've been seeking.

The method demonstrates how to make eighteen HSTs from two squares of fabric.

DIY Laundry Color Catchers

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While commercial color catcher products are available, you may prefer to make your own after reading the post on One Good Thing.

Color catchers are useful in everyday loads of laundry with "mystery" fabrics that look like the colors may bleed or when washing items like quilts with a mixture of many dark colors like purple, red, blue, combined with white.

They also work when laundering knit or crocheted items - by hand or in a machine.

** I've only used manufactured color catchers, so I don't know if the DIY ones work as well.