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In this step by step tutorial I will show you how to add cables into a finished project using a knooking hook but a crochet hook can also be used.

In this video I will show you how to do left and right leaning decreases and 3 different ways to do increases.

00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Decreases 04:37 - Decorative Increase 05:32 - Hidden Increase 07:18 - Another Increase 09:09 - Finished Swatch

This isn't actually crochet, it is knitting (the "invisible spool knitting technique" by Yoola) -- she calls it crochet because it uses a crochet hook, but the stitches themselves are knitting stitches. Anyway, this is a tip for speeding things up using two colours (or two spools of one colour) by doing two stitches on top of each other, one with one wire, one with the other. One would have to time it to see if it actually was faster, but I think it probably is, because it reduces the number of movements one has to make.

Interesting technique: knitting socks with crochet hooks instead of double-pointed-needles. I think it requires four or five identical crochet hooks; one is the working hook, and the others are holding the stitches. Note that these are normal crochet hooks, not Tunisian. I'm not sure if it would work with Tunisian crochet hooks, because the stoppers at the end might get in the way.

Video demonstration of an easier way of doing cables with a knook (knitting hook). (Mind you, the standard way of doing a cable with a knitting hook is still MUCH easier than trying to cable on a knitting loom) The idea is to give yourself more manoeuvrability by doing the first half of the cable, then pull those stitches down onto your cord/lifeline, thus freeing up your hook to easily do the second half of the cable.

This comment in the thread suggests an interesting cast-on method for hook-knitting: do a chain twice as long as you need, then pull up a loop through every other chain. This allows for stretchiness unlike the usual crochet cast-on.

Nify idea: with a bamboo (or wood) knook hook, sharpen the tip with a pencil sharpener, so it goes into the stitches more easily.