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A knitting needle that gave up on subtlety and went full hook.
means A slender rod with a small hooked tip, used to pull and loop yarn through stitches to build crocheted fabric by hand.
from 'Crochet' comes from the French word for 'hook,' itself a diminutive of 'croche,' related to Old Norse 'krokr' (hook) — the same family that gives us 'crook' and 'crotchet.' The craft was named for its essential tool centuries before the tool got its own spotlight in dictionaries.
- size system
- Letters and numbers both exist, agreeing with nobody
- oldest material
- Bone and wood hooks predate steel ones
- single point
- One active stitch at a time, unlike knitting's many
- origin debate
- No one agrees when crochet actually began