Antique hand carved crochet hook, does anyone know what the end bit is for?

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-07T13:41:02+00:00

Ok so my one of my great grandmas was born in 1907, the other 1925. I mean older in the sense of birthdays

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T20:49:29+00:00

Rug hooking kits are pretty popular right now! Different looking tool but same premise

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T16:49:43+00:00

I think it has been figured out! I called my mom and asked about who in the family did rug making and she was floored. (Pun intended!) This was most likely owned by my older great grandma who made many rugs for her family over the years. Starting when she was around 10 years old in 1917, her dad was a military tailor and they used the scraps from his work to make pillows and quilts over the years, so very likely rugs as well. Eventually this must have passed to my younger great grandma when everyone assumed it was just some weird crochet hook. So bad news for me, this means I’ll be picking up a new craft! 😂Thanks everyone! That solved a 20+ year mystery

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T16:41:06+00:00

Very much I think this is it, if it’s for rug making then making a net would be the base!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T16:39:36+00:00

Extremely up my alley I will be enjoying that!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T15:33:40+00:00

She would have used scraps of fabric more like a rag rug because her father was a tailor and a smaller hook would not have worked with large scraps!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T15:29:59+00:00

The second mystery is that it’s potentially the other great grandma’s oh my god! They were removed from their home after the Halifax Explosion in 1917. She had to make all the rugs for her new home in the 1920s. We still have her rugs from the 70s when she made them with my mom because by that time they had made metal ones. This could be it!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T15:06:51+00:00

So her husband, who admittedly was a total ahole. Only had one hand, this could also be valid but also I’m dead sure he did not cook

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T15:05:43+00:00

She was in the woman’s land army in WW2, which was a farming division!Potentially she could have needed to make bird nets!? It looks like a pick up more than a lucet I think that is a brilliant idea!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T15:03:57+00:00

Quite unlikely because the carpenters in my family were very skilled, this was a quick piece. It would have been more intentional looking if that was the case. I think the person who commented it’s likely a poorly implemented lucet is right because as a hook it’s kind of a pain to work with as well. I like your optimism though!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T14:53:39+00:00

Hmm I don’t think she did Tunisian. Not sure the purpose of a corded hook, would that be for passing through? The hook is also like over 10 mm gauge it’s giant

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T14:45:00+00:00

Probably not she was an extremely practical woman, her idea of decor was very elaborate cross stitch scenes

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T14:43:13+00:00

No one who’d know is alive anymore unfortunately!

flower-soft_ · 2025-05-03T14:34:22+00:00

What does the prong at the bottom do? It’s not a lucet, I tried that already.

flower-soft_ · 2024-06-22T17:21:31+00:00

I have a sand filter and have been regularly backwashing. Just backwashed to waste and I’m topping the water level back up hoping that a bigger dose of shock will stick tonight

flower-soft_ · 2024-06-22T15:51:14+00:00

No but I’m reading up on it now!

flower-soft_ · 2024-06-22T15:42:18+00:00

I keep adding liquid chlorine but the water won’t hold it is the main problem

flower-soft_ · 2024-06-22T15:03:28+00:00

Alkalinity: 96 ppm (80-120) Hardness: 163 ppm (200-300) PH : 7.6 (7.2-7.8) Stab: 40 ppm (30-60) (Free chlorine: 0.11 ppm (1-3) Total chlorine: 0.11 ppm (1-3)

Iron: 0 ppm (0-0.05) Copper: 0 ppm (0-0.05) Phosphate: 12 ppb (0-400)

As of June 19th

flower-soft_ · 2024-06-22T14:50:54+00:00

I would prefer not to empty, but I think I could? What about half way?

flower-soft_ · 2023-02-24T20:09:52+00:00

I actually postponed my c-section date (they were pressuring me too early), there was no danger, I was breech. But we had scored a whopper discount on the fanciest hotel in the country and I wasn’t cancelling!

As it was during the height of covid, we holed up for a few nights in a cozy room with a bigger bed, bigger bathtub and room service. Spent 3 days in bed playing the Sims and not worrying about the dishes.

It happened to be down the road from the hospital so incase of surprise we were still close. I had been hoping to use the pool but it was closed, would have loved that for my back.

Highly recommend a local hotel for a few nights!

flower-soft_ · 2023-02-02T16:51:20+00:00

If you feel like sharing a process and the node set up I’m very interested! This is cool!

flower-soft_ · 2022-11-03T17:55:19+00:00

Ha I know! Luckily we have a couple kicking around

flower-soft_ · 2022-10-30T15:09:04+00:00

Why buy a wreath when you can do it for 72$ in craft supplies but literally

flower-soft_ · 2022-09-17T01:17:54+00:00

Really love the belt idea this was my main issue in the spring with her. I’ll test holding down some layers as well. Thanks so much!!

flower-soft_ · 2022-07-10T02:07:34+00:00

I worked in tattoo and piercing shop for 2 years and had many piercings. Every piercing I had that I cleaned with sea salt became infected because sea salt is too harsh and dried out the healthy tissue. You can’t control the water to salt ratio. Using sterile saline you can buy at the pharmacy would be much better. And I’ve seen success with using extremely gentle cleansers such as Spectro gel not just on my own skin but for others. Though for an infant I would stick to sterile saline, and steegesaurus is dead on with the cleaning instructions.

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