Amour Crochet Hooks
with Instructor Steve Butler
Class 157
What is it?
Check any fashion magazine or even publications in the vein of Architectural Digest or House Beautiful. In the forefront or perhaps even as a worthy supporting accessories cast you’ll find an old friend, crochet. Fashion and fashion accessories, home décor and even amazing independent pieces add enhancing accents to any scene. Yarn shops, magazines and online sources are replete with enumerable projects, designs and just pure inspiration. In an effort to accommodate the demands of this expanding creative endeavor, modern textile processes and world-wide search access and sourcing presents us an ever-expanding variety of amazing new yarns representing exciting new colors and textures. Never has the creative potential of crochet been so unlimited. So what’s not to like? Well, while one side of the equation is growing at light speed with new creative mediums, the other side, the development of tools needed to form these exquisite crochet stitches have lagged sadly behind. New creative mediums and new techniques require new tools to facilitate new creative vision. Time to put the grandmother’s crochet hooks on the shelf. In response to the developing requirements of expanding crochet technique, Clover has designed a uniquely useful assortment of crochet tools, the Amour Crochet Hook collection.
What does it do?
Clover really has gone the extra mile investing in research and development to ensure that Amour Crochet Hooks will contribute to your crochet creativity index in every way and well into the future.
· Handles – The handles have soft, ergonomically designed to provide hours of comfortable, stress free manipulation. The hooks are also very light so your stitches are smooth and fast.
· The hooks are seam free so your delicate yarns will never snag. Your fine materials will slide smoothly and easily over the surface.
· Tip design – The tip of each crochet hook is engineered specifically to engage and manipulate the thread smoothly, evenly and without damage. The Amour tip has a slight point so you don’t have to worry about splitting yarns when the hook is inserted. The lip is slightly rounded so no snagging or splitting when pulling through. And lastly the groove also has a rounded component to prevent our stitches from accidentally slipping off. The overall point design makes smooth, fast work of even the most demanding crochet designs.
· The neck between the handle and the taper down to the hook is extended to allow you to pick up multiple loops, all with consistent diameter. Your project lies flat and you get the shape you intended. The hook design works for you, not against you.
· Sizes – Amour Crochet Hooks are available in 17 sizes to meet your every need from the finest yarns to the most bulky – 2.25mm, 2.75mm, 3.25mm, 3.5mm, 3.75mm, 4.0mm, 4.5mm, 5.0mm, 5.5mm, 6.0mm, 6.5 mm, 7 mm, 8 mm, 9mm, 10 mm, 12mm and 15mm.
How do I promote it?
Oh wow, this is easy. Put these incredible crochet hooks in the hands of your friends Set out the hooks and an assortment of yarn styles, weights and textures. A “hook and yarn tasting” if you will. To use them is to love them. Your friends will see what can be done with crochet and that they can do it. Once they use them they’ll be hooked.