What's the best material for making handles for crochet needles?

TruCelt
Wed, 29 May 2024 04:50:13 +0000
In My Humble Opinion

So, I make lace shawls with small (3mm diameter) crochet hooks. It’s possible to buy hooks with handles, but they don’t really fit my hand, and tend to be hard plastic. I’ve made them in the past from sugru, and that works pretty well. But it takes a LOT of sugru, which is not cheap, and ideally I’d like a result with a little more give. I don’t want it squishy, but a bit softer. More like a rubber pad than a memory foam one.

Some people stick the hook through a tennis ball, but that is much too big for my hands. If I could find a rubber golf ball, that would be about right. If I could squish it out more oblong in shape, that would be even better.

Any ideas for material I could use that would stick well to metal and give a bit of respite to my fingers?

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