365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Building A Better Mousetrap
Day 139: My hands go to sleep quickly when I'm crocheting because my fingers have become slick with age and I grip the hook quite tightly. Invariably, the pressure leaves a substantial dent in the pad of my thumb, and as I work across a long row (the width of an afghan, for example), I have to pause repeatedly to flex my hands to restore circulation. A little slow on the upbeat, I finally realized I had a solution within my grasp (ha-ha): pad the damn hook! A little foam, a little micropore tape, and I'm now crocheting with much greater comfort. Yes, I know they make "ergonomic" rubber-handled hooks and I'll probably pick up a set at some point, but for now, necessity (the mother of invention) prevails.
Labels:
afghan,
crochet hook,
crocheting
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