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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
I OWN these and LOVE them! Where have they BEEN? Oct 18, 2008
By C. Bruinsma
"kaiser"
I love these hooks. We take a young handicapped boy to the movies each week and it is great to do the 'crotcheting' in the movies WITHOUT disturbing anyone else. Since I have had FOUR surgeries on my crocheting hand after having it Smashed in a Packaging machine for potato chips, I need a hook that is comfortable and easy to use. And, later, after skiing down a mountain and getting into an accident by missing a tree, I now have a metal rod in my arm and my shoulder is totally replaced, so the ability to rotate tiny hooks is challenging! This one HELPS the with therapy challenge, ALSO! So, I am now a Happy Hooker! ha-ha! Who thought one could ask for all that in ONE hook?!? I wish it would have been around when I was going through the hand surgeries. I was doing counted cross stitch because I could not manage a crochet hook. (A needle stays still and just pokes.) The lites in the hooks turn on and off easily! I love them - I love them! I give them as gifts to friends that crochet so they can enjoy them, also!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
I wish I'd gotten these hooks sooner! Jan 22, 2011
By D. Hain
I love these crochet hooks because they are so comfortable. However, as I read somewhere in another review, they are not all true to size. I bought the whole set, sizes C through K. I checked them with my Susan Bates "Knit-Chek", which has the holes you stick hooks or needles in to measure them. The C and D are true to size, but the E through K all are actually one size up from what they are marked - meaning they measure as F through L. This means the Crochet Lite Crochet Hook doesn't come in a true size E at all. Just keep that in mind and be sure to check your guage! It's still a great product despite this little quirk. I've used them for a long time with no hand pain at all. The light come in handy too, and is bright enough that you can also use it to read your pattern by. But really, I've been crocheting in the dark at the drive-in movies for years. Think about it; if you have a simple repeat pattern do you REALLY need to look at your hands? But with these I won't have to turn on the light in the car or dig out a flashlight to figure out a goof or a tangle, and no more reading the patern by the light of the cell phone!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
LOVE these! They add light and comfort to your crocheting crafts! Mar 13, 2010
By M.D. Edwards
"Avid Aesthete"
I recently taught myself to crochet, and, even though I'm only in my 30s, I found that, after just 1 1/2 to 2 hours of active crocheting, my hand would start to cramp up, making it very difficult to comfortably crochet. I decided to head out to my local manly craft store ( ;) ) to pick up a few of the "comfort" crochet hooks. Got there, looked at those, and noticed that, for whatever crazy reason, the store was discontinuing carrying The Crochet Lite, and had all of their sizes on clearance for half the price of retail. Looking at The Crochet Lite hooks, and comparing them to the comfort-style crochet hooks, The Crochet Lite won, hands-down. The handle on The Crochet Lite is made to be just as comfortable as that found on comfort crochet hooks, and the head of the hook looked to me to be pretty much the same length, but the head of The Crochet Lite illuminates! Now that's just COOL! HAD to have 'em!
I practiced restraint, and only bought about three of what the craft store had left in stock, took 'em home, and opened one up for a test run. Needless to say, it was instant love! I headed back out the very next day to buy all of the rest of The Crochet Lite hooks that they had in stock, and mailed the duplicates that I could force myself to part with, to crocheting friends and family as gifts. They loved them just as much as I do! After only being able to get a few of these locally, I had to have the rest of The Crochet Lite hooks that are available - as others have said in their reviews - and purchased more online. I also decided that, precious as they are to me, I wanted a pouch to protect them in, so I sewed one up that holds them just as I like.
Now that I've got each of the nine hooks in the collection - The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size C 2.5mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size D 3.0mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size E 3.5mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size F 4.0mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size G 4.5mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size H 5.0mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size I 5.5mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size J 6.0mm, The Crochet Lite Crochet Hooks-Size K 6.5mm, Knit Lite Battery Replacement (same batteries are used for all hooks and needles) - I am a happy crocheting camper. The only thing I'd like more than my ownership of the nine Crochet Lite hooks available? Ownership of more sizes of them! Looking at how they're made, and the clear acrylic of the heads, I can understand that Widget Products wouldn't be too keen to try to make smaller sizes in acrylic - they'd probably have to opt for glass, or something much stronger that would undoubtedly bump up the price of these, especially considering how dainty the 2.5mm hook looks and feels (I have mine nested in the very center of my roll-up hook pouch, for fear of it breaking). For larger sizes, Widget Products would probably have to create a new, larger shaft for those heads, as opposed to using the same handle (albeit in different colors), as is currently used for all of the existing Crochet Lite hooks they make.
Regardless of whether or not Widget Products opts to make more sizes in The Crochet Lite, I am a very happy camper, and get much joy out of the comfortable handle, the bright LED light, and the variety of sizes of these great crochet hooks! SO the best hooks I own for my new addiction!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
At Last Dark Yarns are no longer hard to Crochet!!! Jan 21, 2008
By D. K. Engle
Not only are dark yarns not hard to crochet with these, but you can also crochet in bad lighting conditions. I like to crochet while my husband drives, but sometimes when we go places on the way back it is dark. Well that is a problem no longer. He got me four of these for Christmas, sizes F, H, I, & J, & I can't wait to get the other five!! G is an extremely hard size to find. Also, I tried ordering this from the Widget Product website, and after 5 weeks had to cancel my order, because they still had not shipped it. So if you try there, good luck!
Crocheters will be very happy with this product!! And they make great gifts for the Crocheters in your life!!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
love them Apr 08, 2010
By C. Cox
I purchased 3 of these at JoAnn's and after using them the first time I wasn't sure I liked these because they seemed bulky or large in my hand. I put them aside until when my hand
started hurting and I thought maybe give them another try and when I did I fell in love.
I like them because they are a nice fit to my hands. They are not tiny or huge so to me, just
right. The best part is when my husband wants the lights off to watch a movie in the evening,
I pop the light on and keep going. It isn't perfect but easy enough to see to do stitches.I also find them helpful with darker yarns when it can be hard to see sometimes, these add a direct light to helpsee where to stitch.I have hooks of many different kinds but these are my favorite.liked them enough to get the whole set of sizes and have used only them since.
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