Hello Crocheters. My unique Needle-Hook Crochets String THROUGH Cloth to make thick, soft fashion.
Cut up old clothes and fabric scraps. You can crochet Luxury from Scraps.
To start, you need strong cotton string, scissors, scraps of wool or cotton fabric that is medium weave not tight weave, the Shirret needle-hook, a ruler or cardboard 3/4" wide and a sliver of soap to mark fabric.
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.