Hints and tips:
...Crochet became a modern art form in the 1820s, reportedly evolving from an amalgamation of knitting, embroidery and lace-making (the word translates as “hook” in French)....
...In the Famine, Irish women realised they could make lace that mimicked an Italian one, but quicker, by changing the hook, and they were finally able to provide for their families.”...
...When I was training in Madison just ten years ago, we admitted someone from the middle of the state with a crochet hook in her uterus....
...The river is turned by shelving layers of granite and then descends through a cataract in a crochet of channels....
...The marketplace, dubbed “Handmade at Amazon”, was launched on Thursday with a collection of 80,000 items ranging from stationery to necklaces to crochet decorations....
...Ever wanted a Bill Murray dotted T-shirt or a vintage, crochet pillow? Then Etsy is for you....
...For her BA show (Bradford College of Art and Design, 2000), she constructed a birdcage from knitting needles, crochet hooks and scissors, filled it with safety pin birds, then crawled inside, naked, for...
...Tables are strewn with fluorescent-coloured felt-tip “dabbers”, crochet hooks and half-eaten plates of chips....
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