INOX.... Tunisian/Afghan... 2mm...

So I fired up my brain and my afghan hook, got some leftover yarn and began selling personalized scarves at school.

Parents never did figure out why I was crocheting so much and why I had money the whole time I was sposed to be grounded.

Ah, you clever little devil! I knew I liked you for a reason.

Every family in our neighborhood with kids young enough to be babysat also had either an older sibling or a live-in granny to do the babysitting. So, I started selling handcrafts through a consignment shop. You can get a lot of Barbie clothes out of one skein of yarn. It was also the era of the clever pencil topper -- I crocheted frilly flowers of crochet cotton and they were always selling out. I wasn't making a huge profit on each pencil, but I was making out like a bandit on volume!

Then Mom went to jury duty wearing one of my necklaces, sold it right off her neck and came back with a ton of orders. Since Mom had jury duty every 2 years like clockwork, I made a lot of money off Mom wearing one of my creations every day and selling it to some fellow juror (and often getting requests whether I could make one in red and one in blue and one in purple for her to give away as Christmas presents).

I don`t know where you live , but i would advice you to try the new Bambuk needles that are now available , also there some factories that manufacture more ergonomic hooks ,,, i never seen nore used the circular crochet hooks , thus i can`t answe that . mirjam

Good luck finding anything. If I were going to Stitches East today I might find something, but that's not happening (have to do election officer stuff and it's not worth schlepping to Baltimore for only a couple of hours).

ellice

Best wishes, Ericka

Most definitely! Thanks!

Joan

Several years ago Mary Maxim had a couple of patterns done with this stitch. I did one of a Native American geometric-type design for my sister. Haven't gotten a MM catalog for some time, so I don't know if they still have any in there or not. You're right, though, they are few and far between.

Joan