DIY Crocheters - My unique Crochet Needle is for sale again!
It Crochets String THROUGH gathered Cloth.
It crochets thick, soft, colorful, Rugs and Home Decor.
You can Use up Your fabric scraps. Cut up old clothes. Crochet Luxury from Scraps.
Plus, I can crochet a Hat from old Smart Wool® socks. A Beer Cozy from a faded bathing suit.
Baste fabric on the unique steel needle to form Gathers.
I cut up old fabric into long and short strips. I baste-gather it close-together to make SHIRRed ruffles.
Then you make a chain crochet stitch on the hook with String and pull it through the cloth.
What do you get?
A soft bedside luxury rug - from fabric scraps !
There's a point on the hook of the needle. Baste through a strip of fabric. The needle fills with gathers.
With string make a slip loop and crochet a chain stitch.
This is String Through Cloth. Pull a bit of fabric over the hook and onto the stitch.
There's a super-fast method to cut old clothes into strips.
I can make a hat from worn out Smart Wool® socks. A Beer Cozy from a faded bathing suit.
Step 1 Get some string. Get fabric scraps. Cotton-ish and Wool-ish medium-weave are best to start with. Follow my fold-and-cut method. Step 2 'Baste' a fabric strip length-wise onto my long needle. You're not sewing! Step 3 Make an open V with your hand between middle and ring finger. Reach for the needle and put it in the open V. Wrap your middle finger around the wiggle in the needle. Step 4 Crochet a chain stitch with string. Step 5 With your other hand, pull a bit of fabric OFF the needle, OVER the hook and ONTO the stitch. It's crochet.
It gives a rich, thick, Luxury Fashion look.
You can see the basics in motion in my slow, clear, easy Video Lessons, 12 for $8 .
My mother Louise McCrady's seven editions of her hand-typed and printed book, called first Creative Rugcraft and then The Art of Shirret taught 62,000 people world-wide to make these rugs before the internet existed. They have discovered, and enjoy, a lifetime of Shirret, in making, in giving, and living with, since 1930 and 1968.