My dad found a box of stuff that belonged to my grandmother. One of my aunts had brought it over about a year ago and the box sat in the garage for several months until dad brought it inside recently.
I had just mentioned the other day that I was wondering what had happened to my grandmother's crochet hooks...so I was kind of surprised when my dad came into my room 5 minutes ago and handed me 6 crochet hooks. Three Susan Bates hooks and three Boye's. One of the hooks looks like it's been thru a war, the enamel is coming off. So I'm guessing that's the one she must have used the most. It's a Boye "I" hook.
It's kind of weird that two days after I'd said something to my dad about wondering what happened to grandma's crochet hooks they turn up. I'm almost positive she had more, but it's cool that my dad found these. I think I'll get out my sewing machine and make a small case to keep them in. That means a trip to the fabric store! Yay!
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There was one steel hook in the bunch that my dad gave me. I compared it to the doily that I found the other day that Grandma O'Neil had made for me when I was a teenager. I'm pretty sure it's probably the same hook she used for that doily. I dont think Grandma O'Neil had a lot of crochet hooks like I do. (I buy new hooks all the time if I like the colors) so these hooks might be the only ones she had. I looked at the afghans that she made me, and none of them look like she used anything bigger than the "I" hook. It's cool that I've got her hooks now. I'm going to sew a hook case for them with my sewing machine so they dont get mixed in with my hooks (I have about 90 hooks of my own)
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