How do you hold your hook?

[Sharon]

How do you hold your hook? I have been "hooking" since I was 12. I learned to knit first, so I hold my hook like a knitting needle. Anyone else hold it that way? I have seen others writing about "pencil" or "knife " hold. I don't think mine looks like either! <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/grouphug.gif" />

[threeolivemartini]

i would have to see your hold to tell if mine was like it .. i do the "pencil" or actually a modified pencil hold..

[MarvieN]

Yep, I'm a pencil gal too (after grabbing a pen, a knife, then my hook so I could figure out the difference heheh)

 

Marvie

[Nay65]

I usually hold my hook like a pencil, but with some of the larger hook sizes and afghan hooks I'll hold it like a knife.

[Donna]

I've always been a pencil gal, but I'm slowly migrating to the knife hold. It's easier on my wrists. For me, the knife hold is a must with a big Q hook.

 

Holding it like you hold a knitting needle sounds pretty much like a <strike>pencil</strike> (Gah! I meant sounds like a knife hold. I need to pay more attention when I write.<img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/ohdear.gif" />) hold to me. <img border=0 src="http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/scratchchin.gif" />

[RachelG]

I'm a "knife hold person". I have friends that do it the pencil way but it looks so difficult.

 

Rachel

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[Suebee42]

Knife. Though I usually call it a "toothbrush" grip. Heh heh.

[Ambersafghans]

I think I have the knife hold.

Amber

[luvtocraft]

I am usually a *pencil* hold, but for the larger hooks I must hold *knife* style. For me the larger hooks are size N and up.

 

As for knitting, whether I knit continental or English style, the way I hold my needles would be considered the *knife* style.

[Guest Yarnentangled]

Wow, lots of pencil holders here. I am a knife kind of gal. I recently tried to hold the hook like a pencil and it hurt my hand. I couldn't crochet nearly as fast either.

[Swayde]

I am definitely a "pencil" holder, but it amazes me to watch my mother who is a left-handed "knife" holder. It looks so awkward to me! Out of curiosity, are you guys lefty's or righty's?

[threeolivemartini]

this will sound strange.. but.. i am a righty most of the time but do a few things left..

[Stacey]

I'm left-handed and use the knife hold. I tried once or twice to hold the hook like a pencil and I couldn't even make a stitch that way The hook just wouldn't do what I wanted at all when I held it pencil-style.

[Ambersafghans]

I'm a Righty and a knify.

Amber

[Guest Yarnentangled]

I am a rightyknifey.

[Sharon]

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Holding it like you hold a knitting needle sounds pretty much like a pencil hold to me.<hr></blockquote>

 

Well, it could be I was holding the knittin needle wrong too! LOL! I did the knife/pencil test. I am a knife, or toothbrush!<img border=0 src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v84/crochetville/hyper.gif" />

[JPorter718]

I'm a knife-girl myself

I was never taught any other way, but lately I've been trying the pencil-hold and it feels so awkward to me and I tend to go much slower when I crochet that way.

[Guest ebiannah]

Modified pencil. More like a chopstick hold....if that is a hold.

 

Paula

[RebeccaVelasquez]

ummm, i hold mine slightly more graceful than a 2 yr old holds his spoon --- is that a hold? so, kinda a knifey-i guess:shrug

[threeolivemartini]

More like a chopstick hold....if that is a hold

 

 

that is kind of like mine .. i bet we do it the same !!

[Guest zoezzoo]

toothbrush or knife? hold ..my fingers are wrapped around the hook- that is why I love the longer brittany hooks, plenty of room for my 'paw' I've tried the pencil hold, but never could get the hang of it.

 

I do things with both my right and left hands, due to my mother being a 'lefty'. Oddly enough, I can't crochet with my left hand...

zoezzoo

(deb)

[Freshyarn]

I'm a righty and knife.

 

Betsy:fire

[miki421]

I'm a right hander and I hold my hook like a knife. I didn't even know that there was another way to hold the hook until after I had been crocheting for several months. It looked awkward to me, but she said it was a little faster for her to hold her hook like a pencil, plus that's the way her grandmother has taught her.

Happy Crocheting to everyone

:grouphug

[Donna]

yarntomato wrote:

Holding it like you hold a knitting needle sounds pretty much like a pencil hold to me.

I need to pay more attention when I write. I meant to say it sounds like a knife hold to me.