Happy Tuesday y'all! Keeping with quick tips, this is another short one with lots of resources.
Crochet hooks are a necessary tool for our craft. They can be made from all sorts of materials - stainless steel, aluminum, wood, acrylic to name a few. The standard sizing of crochet hooks comes from the size of the "shaft" of the hook, typically the largest part of the hook above the actual hook portion of the tool (the "head"). (See below for EasyCrochet.com's resource on this).
Did you know there are multiple ways to refer to hook sizes? The US generally utilizes a letter and/or number combination - for example, H/8, H, or US8. The UK (and realistically most other countries) utilize the metric system for hook sizing - for example, the USH/8 is a 5.00 mm hook.
As a tech editor, I prefer designers list ALL the sizes - US letter and number, as well as the metric size - for accessibility. Using the above example, this would look like this:
US designers: Hooks: US H/8 (5.0mm)
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UK Designers: Hooks: 5.0mm (US H/8).
1) It makes it easier on makers across the globe to know what hook size to utilize without having to hunt down a resource - "What size was the US H again?. 2) Some hooks only list one size, any of the three above. If someone has one of these hooks in their collection already, they can grab the correct one without issue.
Check out these resources to learn the different conversions, background, and hook anatomy!
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