Have you ever tried really teeny-tiny knitting or crochet?
If you’re one of those people whose leisure hours are spent perfecting 2mm-high reproductions of Notre Dame in gossamer-fine thread, then I salute you. Know-ye that I’m intimidated by your brilliance.
Having made some reasonably small paraphenalia for that project, I was bitten by the smallness bug, although only gently nibbled by itย rather than properly bitten: there’ll be no micro-amigurumi around here any time soon.
So I bought some tiny crochet hooks, partly to see how low I could go (so to speak), and partly because the tiniest hooks that I already own don’t have chunky handles and thus they tend to turn around annoyingly when I’m trying to micro-crochet. It’s frustrating:-
So I went shopping for smallness. Allow me to introduce you to the nought-point-five-millimetre crochet hook! Yes, it’s half a millimetre. That’s small. So small that you can scarcely see the hooky bit. Perfect for stealing webs from spiders and using them for crochet. Only a little too bulky for crocheting at a subatomic level.
It’s a steel hook in the Clover Soft Touch range, my go-to hook for reasons of comfort and relative sharpness (even though these beasts are not beautiful). Here it is in its un-beauty:-
It’s actually quite hard to find a yarn small enough to use it for. I did have a dabble with some gold thread, though:-
Anyway, a kind friend lent me some of her tiny knitting needles. I used these 1mm needles to make a cushion for the picnic blanket in the crochet garden:-
Finished!
Well, the cushion is finished. The garden isn’t. I’m on it, though. I’m hoping to make some very delicate plants for the crochet garden using these new hooks and needles.
Unfortunately you leave this thing lying around for five minutes and some cheeky blighter goes and parks their car on it. Typical.
I’m going to have to put up No Parking signs on my own crochet. Sigh.
With that size hook you have to think crochet cotton. Probably 100. The thinest you can get I think.
I think you’re right. Does this mean that I’m going to have to go yarn-shopping? Oh dear…
What a problem to have. The car on it is so cute, though! I’m really looking forward to seeing this all finished. It’s going to be amazing!
If it ever gets finished…… ๐ ๐
It WILL get finished. Honest. No really. Very very very very very very very soon…
Thank you. I’m always scared that after so much build-up, it’ll be a massive disappointment!
Better get the twins into some serious hooking and knitting and they can inherit your grand opus and carry on the family tradition/heirloom. This could be something that gets worked for generations to come. The twins will vet their prospective spouses on their ability to crochet and knit well in the micro.
Ha ha, I’m sure it’s only a few generations away from being done…
It will skip my daughters as they are craft-0-phobic ๐
No! Surely they’ll see the light soon?
They say it skips generations. I tend to agree with them. That way “you” get to be crafty with your grandkids. A perfect solution in my opinion ๐
What about trying sewing thread ( doubled ) Gutermann cotton is reliable and strong – suggestion from a quilter, hehe.
I hadn’t thought of doubling up thread. That’s a brilliant idea! Thank you. I’d tried single thread but it was too fiddly. Doubled might just be perfect.
Now I was sure you had worked the car into the project. Some awfully nice flowers in that shot. Can’t wait to see it as a whole.
Nah, my sons have worked the car into the project – which was entirely predictable.
And thank you. ๐
Mini garden! Does this mean we’re getting close to FO pictures???
Close-ish. Thank you for your really extreme patience.
Are you some of bhuddist master trying to teach us the lesson of patience by frustrating us with all these teaser shots of that project or something (please reformulate that sentence into one that makes sense. I wasn’t lucky enough to go to school when there was such rigorous grammar taught as under the current, popular regi
me).
Eek sorry, I’m not deliberately testing your patience, honest! It. Will. Be. Done. Soon.
I was adding a tree to a project and found a fimo banana tied to it, wrong kind of tree, maybe it was a comment on me at that point in time. ..
Tee hee, this made me smile!
awesome site lovely photos…
Thank you. That’s very kind. ๐
Delightful!
Why thank you! ๐
I learned to crochet at 5 and by 10 was routinely using a 0.8mm hook with Coates 40. I suppose Coates 60 should be fine for a 0.5mm? My mum gave me 2 of the things I made when I was visiting this spring. They have been washed and ironed but not blocked since I last did it when I was in my early 20s so not fit for sharing yet. I’ll put a comment back here when I’ve done it with pics
Wow, I’m seriously impressed on both the age and the hook size! Yes PLEASE do come back and share photos if it’s not too much trouble.
Now you’ve got me thinking about teaching the twinnage to hook. They’re five…
I’ve taught many a 5 or 6 year old to crochet. Get ready for massive lengths of crocheted chain everywhere!!!