hey crafters so today's December 14th and it is our 14th day of the Christmas
countdown so obviously Christmas gets closer every
single day we're only about 11 days out so that's super exciting but you might
still be wondering what do I want for Christmas and if you are still wondering
that I have a product that once you see it I think you're gonna decide that you
want it for Christmas so this was actually something I got for Christmas
two years ago and there's two items I'm going to be discussing today and it was
something that I discovered on Pinterest I had never heard of it and then I saw
this random pin about it and I was like that looks really cool and so I started
like doing a little bit of research on it and basically I found a whole another
type of crochet so you've got crochet you've gotten it and then you have this
whole other thing called Tunisian crochet and that actually has lots of
names like Tunisian crochet Tunisian knitting royal princess knitting lots of
different names and it's really cool to read up on how I got all the different
news but that's kind of besides the point
so basically what it is the best thing that I like to describe it like if you
were to combine crochet and knitting together you'd basically get Tunisian
crochet so now a quick word this is not the Nook I don't know if you've seen
that I did try the nut and now is marking it as a way to knit with a
crochet hook however I wasn't too thrilled with the nut it was very
challenging to use and I felt like if you're gonna learn to Nook you might as
well just learn to knit but what I really like about Tunisian crochet is if
you already know how to crochet it's really easy to pick up because you still
use a hook just the difference is instead of working each stitch
individually across like you do in crochet you work multiple stitches
across and back like you do in knitting but anyways let's talk about the two
products I'm going to be showing you so I got these two items for Christmas I
basically told my family that hey I want to learn to Tunisian crochet so that
means I want Tunisian crochet hooks which are generally longer so you can
hold multiple loops on the hot I also wanted a how-to book so I was
really proud of my dad he did an awesome job researching and figuring out what to
get me and these are the items that I got for Christmas that year first of all
I got this Denice set of interchangeable crochet hooks I'll give you a look at
those in a moment and I also got this get hooked on Tunisian crochet and it's
a really good how-to on Tunisian crochet it has some of really cool projects in
there so if you're not familiar with Tunisian crochet pause this video go
watch a video of some in Tunisian crochet and then come back because
that'll make a little more sense and I'm talking through things but for Tunisian
crochet as I was saying earlier you pick up multiple loops and stitches on the
hook at the same time so that means if your work is long you need a hook to be
born so what's really cool about this kit here is it comes with lots of
different size hooks but it also has these pieces here that allow you to make
your hook longer so it comes with instructions and it comes with their
little card here but what you get is you get a set of
these hooks you have these long cord pieces that can attach into the ends of
the hook you get these button end pieces and you get these connectors so I'll go
ahead and pull out a hook they go from size F I'll play to end and then they
have these two that are 17 and 19 and those one sorta have a letter with them
because once you get up into those sizes there's some discrepancies between
brands of what size it actually is but let's take this size J hook for instance
so for the most part it looks like a normal crochet hook it is an inline
crochet hook you can see right here that it kind of has that point there it has a
nice thumb grip so it's really comfortable to work with but the end is
what makes this special you might have noticed that all the crochet hooks are
the same way and so this end is what makes it special and what you can do is
to make your hook long enough for your project you take one of these cord
pieces which also they're flexible by the way which is really cool and I'll
show you how I use that with a project and you just insert it into the end of
your crochet hook twist to snap it in place and now you've got an extended
crochet hook and then you can use the extender pieces here if you want to make
it even longer this connects onto the ends of the cords listed on you can add
another extension piece so you can make it as long as you need it to be for your
project which is really nice I really like that because it's also a lot better
for storage because if you don't have interchangeable hooks with a flexible
cord you end up with a solid metal or plastic cut that's really long and so
those are obviously a lot harder to store it's like trying to store knitting
needles if you've ever tried that it's a lot more challenging than just doing
crochet hooks so I really like how you can pop these pieces in and out and I
really like that you can extend them and combine them at all different ways with
these same pieces so I got just this short gun right near here and you might
be wondering since it's flexible does that impact how it is when you Tunisian
crochet and the answer is no because you really hang on to up here this just
allows your loops to slide all the way down here so that way all your loops
aren't right up here and getting bunched up or you have too many and you can't do
any more stitches one other thing that comes with this kit which is really nice
is these end buttons and this piece also attaches on the end just pop it on there
whist it and so now as the loop slide down the hook they'll hit this and they
won't slide off so that's really nice too so now you have a little bit of an
idea and I promised that once you actually start Tunisian crochet the way
this kit works will the more you learn about Tunisian crochet the more appeal
this kit will have because like I said it's a lot easier for storage it's super
customizable because you have all kinds of different length cords so you can
make your project as long or as short as you want they're these nice sturdy
plastic inline hooks so that's always very nice and they have a good weight to
them I feel like you know sometimes you have a hook that's too light it feels a
little awkward they have but they have a nice balance to them so I really like
that so that's what comes in your kit I would definitely recommend this if you
already know how to crochet and you want to learn how to Tunisian crochet this
kit is really awesome because it gives you the advantage of lots of hook sizes
all at once and it's also really super portable and the other thing is as I
mentioned before if you're not familiar with Tunisian crochet but it's something
you might interested in if you already know how to
crochet it you can pick it up really easily and it's because you use a lot of
the same techniques where you use the crochet hook to pick up different loops
you just do it in different fashions in different ways to create different
designs so know how do you learn how to actually use a kit like this that's
where this book comes in now I've shared in some of my other crochet videos that
when I was first learning to crochet I tried chicken books up in the library
and it was an absolute flop I could not find a book to make crochet makes sense
to me I tried looking on YouTube videos and I could not get it until somebody
showed me in person so I can't guarantee that this will work for everybody and I
also can't guarantee that it will work if you don't already know how to crochet
however since I do know how to crochet when I buy this book this book was so
good it's really nice the beginning pages they talk a little bit just about
Tunisian crochet itself so you can kind of get an idea of you know what the art
actually is and some of the origins and history of it and it also talks about
different kinds of hooks in here so this information will help this kit makes
sense and they actually show this exact kit in here so it's kind of funny too so
lots of good information especially if you've never picked up a crochet hook in
your life but even if you have picked up a push I had before and you do know how
to crochet to some extent it'll make it even easier and I'll give you a really
good foundation for what you're actually bringing the stitches last of all before
you get to the actual patterns there's tons of pages showing all kinds
of different stitches and what's really cool about Tunisian crochet is you can
mimic a lot of knit stitches but you still use crochet techniques super
simple you just hook and pull through so I really like the way this book teaches
it it also has some nice patterns for some different projects throughout there
and you know I haven't made a ton of the projects in here but there's some really
cute beginner ideas and it can help you understand how the stitches actually
work for a real project once you know how to make the stitches themselves so
anyways that's what I've got for today this is
the Denice set of interchangeable Tunisian crochet hooks and this is get
hooked on Tunisian crochet by Cheryl thighs really good book I really would
recommend both of these products I actually was looking at Amazon because
I'll have links for these in the description below and they have a
coloured kit it's so cool-looking like this one these are all white and they're
pretty you know nice and pristine but they have a colored kit where all the
hooks are really fun colors they're like some pastels and some brighter colors so
super pretty super fun and this book is also available on Amazon so you can
order both of these together just in time for Christmas as a gift for
yourself as a gift for somebody else or you can just put the idea in someone
else's ear that hey this is something I'm like for Christmas one last thing I
will show you just to kind of encourage you to get interested in Tunisian
crochet is something that I made out of Tunisian crochet
I made this awesome basket being kind of this like basket weave design on it that
I incorporated so it was really neat I actually made up this pattern by myself
but I was able to do some of the patterns and techniques from in this
book to be able to make it work although I was able to work this project kind of
going around and there's a different method when you work in the round with
Tunisian crochet there's actually some different kinds of hooks you can use and
I did not have the proper tools to do that but I was able to work around the
square base of this project and the loops from the stitches for each row
were able to stay on because this cord was able to curve around the bottom and
stay where I needed to be so that was really cool neat application
reason why I really like the flexibility of these ones versus a solid Tunisian
crochet hook so I hope that that piques your interest and that if you haven't
looked into Tunisian crochet before that you would and maybe if you are
considering starting with Tunisian crochet I would definitely recommend
these two products were starting such a huge help I am so impressed with my dad
because he's not crafty but he picked these out he looked at reviews and did
his research really well so I was very impressed by that but I've really
enjoyed learning Tunisian crochet it's cool because it's very similar to
crochet yet also vastly different and so it opens a whole new world of textures
and patterns and take week and of course you can combine
Tunisian crochet with a crochet project or a knit project and so it's really
cool all the ways you can use it and of course the book has lots of patterns if
you're struggling with ideas or you just want to practice your stitches but
that's what I've got for today I hope you come back for tomorrow I've got
another fun tutorial coming your way and until next time I hope you all continue
to have a very Merry Christmas season and happy crafting
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