Post begun 1443hrsGMT MONDAY 1 Dec 2025 

 

Oh damn. Long story short, I bought a WIP (Work In Progress) bag promising to be the 'perfect WIP bag' prefilled with lots of nifty knitting and crochet tools - including several aluminium crochet hooks and several more 'ergonomic crochet hooks'. 

 

Bag arrived. Bag is actually nice and will be a handy little WIP bag. Nifty tools turn out to be cheap rubbish for the most part ('safety scissors' won't cut, locking stitch markers so brittle they break if you dare look at them much less try to use them, plastic tape measure inaccurately marked...) but the aluminium hooks are brilliant. I was going to donate the 'ergonomic crochet hooks' to the local Red Cross charity shop...

 

And then I thought 'I'll  give them a try, who knows, perhaps I no longer hate the clumsy fumbly hooks.' Then I laughed because every time I've tried those hooks in the past my Essential Tremor got in the way. In a great big fat hairy way. 

 

And, well, I don't hate ergonomic crochet hooks any longer, in fact I now love them so much this morning I ordered the sizes not included in the bag set I received Sunday (gotta love EVRi, our regular AND his subs are SO good!).  

 

What happened was, I am working on a lapghan so I switched my beloved HiyaHiya 5.5mm aluminium hook for the ergonomic 5.5mm one thinking yeah, five minutes and I'll switch back... Oh. Five hours later (no really, five hours later) I realised I was still crocheting with that ergonomic hook and had watched a Nicholas Cage movie (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) AND the Qatar GP (WOOT, Max Verstappen won the Qatar GP last night!),  and my arthritic hands felt great - not a twinge or spasm or any other reminder I've had arthritis since childhood - and BONUS, my Essential Tremor not only didn't get in the way, the ET seemed to like the slight weight increase and 'fatter' hook shaft of the ergonomic style. 

 

Well who knew that was going to happen?! I damn sure didn't. But honestly the ergonomic hooks are serious game changing tools and I'm glad I gave them a go. BONUS - the set I received Sunday includes the tiny stainless steel thread hooks all neatly cushioned and weighted - WOOT, filet crochet here I come again!

 

I'm going to have to retire all my lovely HiyaHiya aluminium hooks (sob) and all my Milward ones and all my Boyd ones (yeah, I think I have over 150 aluminium crochet hooks all together - I have grandchildren so I'm keeping those hooks). I'll polish them regularly remembering to thank them for the years of service despite the arthritic pain using those hooks inflicted. 

 

Christmas came early with that set of ergonomic hooks. Yippee!

 

Speaking of Christmas, we're fluffing the PE green tree - it's not going well so the lights won't go on before tomorrow if then. Sigh. 

 

Posted 1513hrsGMT MONDAY 1 Dec 2025