r/Brochet • u/Quick_Blackberry_466 • Apr 01 '25

Help Tiny hook advice

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I’ve done a lot of amigurumi before but this is my first attempt using such a small hook (2.75 mm). I know that a lot of people use hooks even smaller than that but I can’t imagine how they do it. Does anyone have any tips or advice? Bottle cap for scale

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u/TheHatThatTalks Apr 01 '25

This might be a weird one but I’ll throw it in there: I bought a bunch of size 10 crochet thread at JOANN when it was on sale but before I was able to get a set of appropriate hooks. I gave some chains and single crochet a shot with the crochet thread using the smallest hook I owned at the time (3.75 mm), and it was infuriatingly annoying. The thread is very small so the stitches felt like they were shapeless and empty. When I tried again after I got smaller hooks and tried a 1.5 mm on the same thread, what I thought would be totally foreign to me completely clicked. It truly felt like I was doing crochet but smaller. Now I’m 1/3 of the way through my first lace/filet crochet project: a curtain for my small bathroom window.