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2022 State Fair

Our August 10 meeting will be at the Maplewood Library.  This month's meeting will be more focused on business, but someone is always available to help, so bring your project, materials for a nametag or small giveaways and your ideas & suggestions.  We'll be looking for nominees for the 2025 officer elections, which will be held in October, firming up plans for the rest of this year and getting a start on 2025 planning.  

Dan Patch topiary at the State Fair

Exciting news, CTC now has a Facebook group: Crochet Twin Cities Group | Facebook, in addition to our Facebook page: CTC Page | Facebook.  The group has the advantage of allowing group members to interact with us and each other rather than all of the content coming from our social media gurus (not that they don't do an excellent job).  

Our group has reached an all-time high of over 60 official members!   You can be part of our group, by joining us on social media, and attending events that are open to the public, but to be an "official" member, you need to submit a form (pdf version available on our About Us & Member Policy pages or online form through the menu) AND pay the dues or request a scholarship.  The benefits of official membership include the monthly newsletter delivered to your inbox, access to handouts & educational materials and a roster of member, and to the few meetings and events that are limited to official members only.

One of the benefits for official members is to demonstrate at the State Fair.   We will be in the Creative Arts building on the corner of Dan Patch & Cosgrove, on Thursday, August 22 and Sunday, September 1.

MMMbop!

June 22 MOA meetup

Barb wrote an article about hook sizes below.  She'll also be teaching our class this weekend.  Details including the pattern were sent out with the newsletter, or you can check our Crochet Twin Cities: Meeting Calendar, or our social media. Limited printouts of the pattern will be available at the meeting.  

If you are an official member and did not receive the latest newsletter or if you are an unofficial member and would like more information, please reach out to us at ctclist@gmail.com  

The other side of the table.

It can be difficult to realize, but those three blond brothers had their huge one-hit-wonder back in 1997. It has been a long time. It’s around that time that I decided I needed to ditch the alphabet soup of hook sizes and do like the Hanson Brothers. MMMbop!

The brothers sang about a secret that no one knows. It took me decades of crocheting to figure out that the alphabet sizing of crochet hooks, just like women’s clothing sizes, had no uniform standard. A G could be 4 mm or 4.25 mm or any other size the manufacturer chose to stick on the thumb rest. Further complicating matters is that the hook sizes for thread crochet have another completely different sizing system. The UK also has an older, non-sequential numbering system. And Japan has yet a different system. These days I stick to standard millimeter sizes. A 4 mm will always be a 4 mm. 

Here is a rough equivalent chart. I cross referenced 15 different charts, as you can see there is little agreement on anything, but MM. Because hook manufacturers and hook size chart makers have no true sizing standard, other than mm. Join me hooking to the MMMbop!

Millimeter size	USA sizes	UK sizes	Japan sizes	Suggested yarn weight
.40 mm			24
.45 mm			23
.50 mm			14
.55 mm			13
.60 mm	12, 14	6	12
.70 mm			11
.75 mm	12, 14/10	5	10
.85 mm	13
.90 mm	14/8
.95 mm	13
1 mm	10, 12/6	4	6
1.05 mm	11
1.10 mm	11
1.15	10
1.25 mm	9/4	3	4
1.3 mm	10
1.4 mm	9/8			0 Lace
1.5 mm	6, 8/7/2	2.5	2	0 Lace
1.6 mm	6			0 Lace
1.65 mm	7			0 Lace
1.7 mm	5			0 Lace
1.75 mm	4/0	2	0	0 Lace
1.80 mm	6			0 Lace
1.90 mm	5			0 Lace
2 mm	B, 1, 4, 0	14	2/0	0 Lace
2.10 mm	3			0 Lace
2.20 mm	2			0 Lace
2.25 mm	B, 1, 2	13	3/0	1 Super Fine
2.35 mm	1			1 Super Fine
2.5 mm	B, 1/2	12	4/0	1 Super Fine
2.55 mm	0			1 Super Fine
2.7 mm	00			1 Super Fine
2.75 mm	C, 1,  2	12		1 Super Fine
3 mm		11	5/0	1 Super Fine
3.125 mm	D			1 Super Fine
3.25 mm	D, 3, 0	10		1 Super Fine
3.5 mm	E, 4, 00	9	6/0	2 Fine
3.75 mm	F-5	9		2 Fine
4 mm	F, G-6	8	7/0	2 Fine
4.25 mm	G			2 Fine
4.5 mm	G, 7	7	7.5/0	3 Light
5 mm	H, 8, I, 9	6	8/0	3 Light
5.5 mm	I, 9	5	9/0	4 Medium
5.75 mm	J			4 Medium
6 mm	J,10	4	10/0	4 Medium
6.5 mm	K,10.5	3		5 Bulky
7 mm		2	7	5 Bulky
8 mm	L, 11	1/0 or 0	8	5 Bulky
9 mm	M/N, 13	2/0 or 00	9	6 Super Bulky
10 mm	N/P, 15	3/0 or 000	10	6 Super Bulky
11.5 mm	P, 16			6 Super Bulky
12 mm	P		12	6 Super Bulky
15 mm	P/Q		15	6 Super Bulky
15.75 mm	Q
16 mm	Q			7 Jumbo
19 mm	S		20	7 Jumbo
20 mm				7 Jumbo
25 mm	T, U, X			7 Jumbo
30 mm	T, X, 30			7 Jumbo