Well, the second package of yarn for the Crochet Club 2011 finally arrived on Monday. I picked it up Tuesday. The empty storage tub I had picked out hold all the yarn perfectly. The yarn I purchased last weekend has been frogged and rewound in to neat balls -- or as a friend refers to them -- YARN CAKES. 8-)
The first chevron (a.k.a. ripple) went really fast. I am working on the second. Then I will tackle the waves section. This is the section that the original pattern had some mistakes. I have never done this particular type of pattern before so it should be interesting.
Now to the hooks. I went to the big box home store last week and got my own digital calipers. A very nice young woman helped me and thank goodness she didn't want to know what I was going to use it for. It is very easy to use and I started to work right away.
I wish I had a 'known' object ot calibrate it against. Since I don't I will just have to judge the results in a 'relative' light. So far I have found that the small Boye hooks appear to have the greatest difference from what they are stated to be. I know that these are newer hooks because I only buy them when I forget my Susan Bates hooks and I am making socks. One Boye hooked marked 'B' (should be 2.25 mm) measures 2.75 mm (a 'C'). Another Boye marked 'C' (should be 2.75 mm) measures 2.67 mm. I have measured 36 hooks so far and 27 of them had a variation of 2% or more than the advertised size. The greatest over stated was 22.2% greater (the Boye B hook) and the greatest under was 14.3% under stated (Boye 00 steel hook). At this time I am reserving my judgement about the Boye 00 hook because it is an older hook and I am not sure that the internet information on what the size should be is accurate.
I still have tons more to measure so we shall see.
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