How Do You Hold YOUR Hook?

[Sugarcoatedlies]

I'm not sure actually . How ever I hold it it used to drive my mom CRAZY because I hold both my hook and my yarn wrong

 

haha :]

i hold mine wrong too

[Pear-Kitten]

I'm a pencil gripper. I tried crocheting overhanded but it just felt awkward.

[Gr8ful Momma]

i hold mine like a pencil. i was "taught" a way but i don't remember now. i know i dont hold my yarn like i should, i just do what works for me. like i do with everything in my life

 

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My Mom showed me how to crochet and not only do I hold my yarn weird to her, I also hold my hook weird as well. I hold underhanded. She just shakes her head at me when she sees me crochet.

[Tigerle]

i crochet underhanded because all crocheter of my familiy do so.

[Midds]

I hold the hook both ways. First is depends on the size of the hook and how long and what I am or have been crocheting. Normally, I hold it like a pencil but if I am crocheting something with tight stitching, have been crocheting for a long time and my wrist is starting to ache, or if the hook just feels better to hold it the other way then I hold it like a handle.

[ReniC]

Actually , I hold it either way, depends on the hook but I prefer like a handle.

I don't think either way is wrong. My grandmother who was American and my mother who is European both hold it like a handle. I really think it is a personal preference.

[Aelita]

I hold mine overhand, I can't hold it underhand, but I was told that whether I hold the hook over or underhand neither way is wrong, it's what makes you comfortable.

[hmltwin]

My mother taught me to hold it underhand, so that's the one I do most of the time. However, when I'm having trouble getting through a stich (I need to learn to make them looser ) I go at them overhand. That way, I find, I get better leverage and I'm at an angle where I can see what I'm doing.

[Nota44model]

I use the over-hand method... could never get the pencil grip to feel right for me!

[emi_die_maku]

I can't remember which way I was "taught", but I draw, so I instinctively hold it like a pencil.

 

Whatever works for people, really.

[patti_tree]

like a pencil, and I was told by a "seasoned" crocheter that I was holding it wrong, that is why I don't have speed.....I go pretty fast. Any other was feels weird.

 

Patti C.

[tryptikangel]

I guess I hold my hook overhanded. Maybe kinda like you'd hold knitting needles? It's just more comfortable for me that way. I tried holding it like a pencil but I just couldn't get it to work for me.

[hey let's go]

I'm comfortable holding my hook over-handed. It's the only way I've ever tried, but why fix what isn't broken?

[cheraboo]

I used to hold it like a pencil (that's the way my Great Grandma taught me ages ago. These days my RA prevents me from doing so, so I had to adapt. I still prefer the pencil grip though *sigh*

[JAGsHunny]

I hold mine like a knife; that's not the way I was taught though! LOL My Gram used to have fits about the way I hold my hook but it's what works for me so I didn't listen to her. LOL

Steph

[fc1123]

I hold my like a knife

[I Create]

I hold my hook like a pencil and my yarn I hold between my index finger and the middle finger. Sort of like you would hold a cigarette, and no, I don't smoke. I wish I could hold it differently but I've always done it that way since I began crocheting in my 20's, now 60. I don't know if I was taught that way or I just did it. But my fingers don't seem to work any other way.

[ladydiva]

overhand

[rnielsen]

I hold mine like a pencil

[RainbowBrite]

I thought I was a weirdo, too. I hold my over hand. I don't think I hold my yarn like most people do, though.. I think while some people grab their yarn with their hook to yarn over, I do it manually.. Like, I take my left hand and I wind it over the hook..

[KER828]

Is there video of the pencil holding way?? My niece is struggling to learn and maybe this would help if I could see it.....

[tnkycrochetnut]

The best I can figure is I hold it overhanded like a handle or a knife. I'm not really sure. The most comfortable (okay, a little on the smart alecky side) answer I have to the question on how I hold my hook is in my hand. Right hand for the hook and left for my yarn. I've looked in "How to Crochet" books and I hold my hook similar to how they show but not exactly. My Mom and oldest sister started teaching me how to crochet in the late 1970's. I guess I hold my hook like they did. I'm not sure and can't ask them as they both have passed away.

[HorrorRetro]

I use the overhanded method.

[yogachic]

Overhanded:hook

[dobermama]

I'm really surprised the pencil hold isn't in first place. Many, many, many years ago when I was taught how to crochet, that's how I was taught to hold it. Not sure after ALL these years, I would know any other way