Review of Edgit Crochet Hooks

Hey everyone, it's Deja from crocheteverafter.com. Today I'm doing a review on the Edgit, which is a piercing and crocheting hook. So I got a viewer request that wanted me to do some edging on a pillowcase, and rather than use the steel hooks that I already have, I wanted to see if they made anything that was more specific for that type of work, and I found these edgetts. So I promptly bought them, and I'm going to give them a go with these projects to see how well they work. They're supposed to be kind of a piercing. crochet hook, so it should make it easier to work into my pillowcases rather than trying to use my steel crochet hooks, which, you know, may not be quite as pointy. So I'm going to open these up and see how pointy they actually are, but stick around and see how well they work out. Alright, I've pulled the book out and the crochet hooks so that we can take a closer look at what comes in this kit. So, let's look at the crochet hooks first. Let me move this so you can see a little better. I wasn't sure why they gave me two. Now I understand after reading through the booklet a little bit. So, they're both capped, but this one doesn't really need a cap. It's just a regular crochet hook. You can see that it has the rounded edge. And it's just a smaller hook because you're going to be using crochet thread for most of your projects. And it's a 1.75 millimeter. Then we have the edged crochet hook. And this is the special one. You'll see, let me pull out this one actually so you can see the difference. You'll see that the tops of these are quite different. So we have a rounded edge on our normal hook. And then a super pointy one on our edged crochet hook. So that's going to enable us to poke through our fabric to be able to make these edgings that we see here. So the pointy hook is not going to do all of the work, I'm going to show you in just a second in the book how you will make the edging. I'm also doing some tutorials on pillowcase edging so I'll be going from this book as I'm going to look as well on the initial Round of crochet, but also both of these are the same size they're both 1.75 The edge it doesn't say the size, but they are the same size So you can begin the first round completely with the edge it and then switch to your rounded crochet hook so When we're looking through this book, it gives us information on how to work into our blanket. They deal mostly with flannel blankets, because this is for baby blankets. They give proceeds to a charity that gives blankets away as well, so that's really nice. Added bonus when you purchase this, but the way that they create most of the holes in their blanket is through sewing. So you'll see on my other project that I'm doing for the website that We're going to sew into the pillowcase to create the beginning holes. So we should have some holes already that we can work into. It's going to space it out for us so when we crochet into it, so you can see over here like how it's going to be crocheted into, we'll have some basic holes that we can poke our pointy needle through, our pointy crochet hook through. So that's going to help us a little bit. I'll show you how it's going, but the book is good. It's got a few different designs that it comes with. They also have lots of additional books with much more edges. Each of the edges gives a pretty good description on how to make it. I'm not seeing though how If it's a stitch pattern, like this blossom one here, it looks like it needs to be a certain distance apart, and it doesn't tell what the stitch repeat is. So that's the only thing that I am not seeing on here that I would like to see, so that way you know that you can kind of try to space out your stitches correctly so that you get completely spaced out flowers. So that's the only thing I'm missing is it telling me how many stitches I need to Make multiples of, so like if this said make a multiple of 10 stitches, I would make sure that all of my stitch count all the way around would end up with 10 stitches, so that I would get even equidistant flowers, but that's the only thing that this is missing, but otherwise it looks like it should work out pretty well. I'm going to be making my own edging for the pillowcases, but I'm going to be using the basics of working into the blanket, or the pillowcase in my case, to that the... On the edge crochet edged pattern book number four is telling me so I'm going to go ahead and start sewing my pillowcases so that I get those holes right now. So I have already done my sewing edge as you can see. And I've begun making my first round of single crochet as the book states. So when I put my hook into the hole that's already made by my zigzag stitch, I still have to push a little bit because this is thicker than the hole that my needle made. And then when I come back, I'm finding it difficult. It's taking a lot of extra time because I'm trying to get back through the hole. Which still, it does not quite want to come, and then when I pulled back, I seemed to pull on some of the threads, and so I just did it and made kind of a pulled thread there, so I can pull that out. So it's a little bit difficult with this hook to get back through. So hopefully I get the hang of it a little bit better by the end of this pillowcase, Okay, so maybe practice on... Some clothing, old clothing, or an old pillowcase before you make the project for somebody. Possibly she, or this kit, is more geared towards flannel blankets. And I know flannel has a much easier kind of working surface, it doesn't, I don't think it has any kind of runs that it can get, it's kind of like you poke the hole and it makes like a nice big hole, so I might have to try this kit with a flannel blanket as well to see if that helps more. But so far it's a little difficult, I'm hoping that this is just a learning curve to get this yarn through, and that I'm not going to have this trouble all the way around. So you can see I'm pulling up and doing my single crochets. I am pulling the fabric a little bit down as I'm doing it. I think it's all gonna even out by the time I'm done, so also with blocking I can hopefully straighten that out a little bit, but it's not too noticeable at the moment. It's kind of just blending, if you look at it from far away, it's not really showing, like I've totally squished it, and if I keep it even all the way around, it should just kind of be good, but it's a little difficult to pull this all the way up to keep the fabric straight, because when you go to enter your hook in the next stitch, it kind of pulls on this previous stitch, so even if I'm trying to keep this as loose as possible, it's kind of difficult. So, but the hook is very pointy, it's very easy to get through the fabric, so that's a plus, it's just a little difficult getting the crochet thread back through the fabric. But I think I'm getting a little bit better, so I'm gonna keep going and then I'll show you how it looks at the end of the round. Figuring out how to use. You can see on the opposite side, my stitches are a little round. Instead of, because I was getting caught on the little... So instead what I was doing, I was going in. Instead, what I'm going to do is, because I want to open up your hole a little wider, without getting stuck as much, so you might want to bring it right over the top most to go. It's kind of self-repairing almost, because it starts to close back up if you case, because it's not punching a bigger hole, it's just pushing the thread apart, so you can pull your needle or knitting hook. So I'm trying to get right in the middle of my stitch. I'm also noticing that I should have stitched a little bit closer to the edge. I'm kind of creating a little fold-over style scale case because it doesn't, like, I can't even really tell. But if you have a raw edge, then it might work to do the deep stitching like I have here. Can you see how it's folded over here? So if you have a deep stitch and you have a raw edge, then this could work because it'll It'll help hold it over when you crochet into it and create a nice edge to it. I finished my edging project with the army edge crochet hook. What I can say about the product is the hook is great. It'll poke through just about anything as you saw it. There was a little bit more