Clover Needlecraft 6550 Amour Crochet Hook, 12 mm
January 3, 2019 - Comment
Clover’s 1058 12mm amour hook is incredibly soft and allows the yarn to slide without any effort. Amour handles are in vibrant colors to easily identify sizes. The handle is made of elastomer rubber, making comfortable and stress free crochet.
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Clover Amour crochet hooks. I’ve been crocheting for 3 years. I’ve tried from the inexpensive hooks, Boye, Susan Bates, to the middle range Crochet Guy, to the more expensive Addi, passing through bamboo, rosewood, and other sophisticated wooden hooks. Nothing compares to the easiness of crocheting with Clover Amour hooks. For about a year I been using exclusively the Amour aluminum hooks in the only available sizes they had, No. 2.25 to No. 6 being the largest. When I saw they now had sizes 6.5 to 10 for thicker…
Very good, tho not awesome Like the colors, like the handle, only downside is that the hook itself is plastic. Resin, as it’s listed on the package. It’s not cheepo plastic but it’s not as nice as the aluminum hooks in the smaller sizes. It still glides through the yarn but not as well as the metal. And it does squeak a bit when working acrylic fibers. I don’t split as many times or drop loops as much as with other hooks but it’s definitely not as good as the metal. It’s a shame they decided on this design choice. The…
The raised lettering ruins it, gave me blisters! I bought this expecting great things because of the praise for the line that I read everywhere for them. When I started crocheting a few years ago, I bought an ergonomic set of 12 hooks here for the cost of two Clover hooks & was told constantly that they couldn’t compete with the Clovers. Well, I disagree. I love my “cheap knockoffs” & they have served me perfectly. I use the 5.5mm so much that I wanted a second hook on hand. So I decided to invest in a Clover one & to see what all of…