Crochet jewelry is a new art of making customized cute jewelries which can be wore for all occasion.

What is crochet?

Crochet is the art of creating a pattern by interlocking thread, wire or any other material using crochet hook. Crochet is a french word which means small hook. Crochet hooks are made up of wood or plastic or metal and can be bought from the commercial stores. Most common materials used for crochet are yarn or thread. Thus the materials needs for crochet are

• A crochet hook​
• Yarn or crochet thread
• Scissors

Crochet hook

Crochet hook is the tool to create crochet based fabric. Crochet tools are available in different sizes. These are made up of wood, aluminium, plastic, bamboo and steel. The size of the crochet hooks is differentiated by the diameter of the hook’s shaft.

Some of the hooks have a stopper at the end of the handle, some of the other hooks have a hook at both the ends of the handle.

A crochet hook can be hold in different ways, among which two ways are popular knife grippers and pencil gripper. Knife gripper type of holding is just like holding a dinner knife and pencil gripper is holding the hook as a pencil is held.

Yarn

Yarn can be bought in the commercial stores and they are usually sold as balls. Yarn has to be bought as per the needle size. If different size of needle and yarn is bought then it will be hard to stitch

Types of stitching

Different types of stitches using the yarn and crochet are

• Chain Stitch
• Slip Stitch
• Single Crochet Stitch
• Half Double Crochet Stitch
• Double Crochet Stitch

Crochet Jewelry

Different types of jewelries can be made with crochet. Some of them are

• Earring
• Jhumka
• Necklace
• Bracelts
• Rings

Materials needed to make crochet jewelry are

• Crochet thread
• Crochet hook
• Different color stones and pearls
• Earring base
• Gear wire
• Chain Hooks

If you know to stitch crochet then you can make create crochet jewelry easily. Crochet jewelry can be sold from Rs.50 to Rs. 2500 or even more based on the work you do in the jewelry.