Susan Bates hook discovery

Well color me DUH.

I was just looking through my hooks for a project I'm planning on working on this weekend and discovered something new about my Susan Bates hooks. I prefer those short blunt heads over the long skinny neck Boye ones that get caught in my work and split the yarn.

Anyway, looking through my crochet bag, I see not only a Bates hook marked G6/4 mm, but I also have a Bates G7 hook that's 4.5 mm! I never knew that about my G hooks and thought the 7/4.5 mm size was harder to come by than that in the US. They are both relatively new, since I rarely used that small a size until I got into sport/DK weight yarns the past few years. Sheesh, maybe I should get my eyes checked.

Finished the second Harry Potter scarf, and that one was snatched up just as fast as the first, but I think I may have a picture of it to share if the camera cooperated. I'll check it out later and see if I can show you how it turned out. I think they are wanting fingerless gloves and/or maybe hats to match, hence the search for the hooks to crochet the gloves (goes faster than HK in the round for me). If they want hats, I'll MK those, as I've come up with a pattern I think will be rather quick to do, though it will take some HK work to do the decreases at the top for a neater gather. If I do the matching hat or gloves, I'll let you know how they turn out and definitely not say anything about having done them until I get pictures!!!

Leah