5 Crochet Hacks To Level Up Your Skills!  

In regards to the weight formula, it's essential to have the original label so when I have a leftover I roll the label and then roll the yarn up around it. For future reference the label is still there.😊 TFS!

You may want to round down and not up on your yardage. You have 103 yards and 20 inches, not 104 yards. When calculating what you need those 16 inches you don't have may make a difference.

Excellent hacks on both videos but best of all for me is that you are a fast talker and get right down to the brass tacks without any nonsense. Outstanding!

Newbie here! Wow, the yarn weighing to get yardage is a game changer!!! I'll have to remember this for the future.

Hi!!! Your video is not too long!!! Not long enough sounds better !!!!!! Thank you SO much for these tips!!!! Hacks are so helpful !!!

I am sooo glad to see your tip on how to thread yarn onto a needle. It drives me NUTS when people try to thread it by pushing the yarn end thru the eye of the needle. That way is always almost impossible and takes forever. Do it the way you show here and 1, 2, 3, it's done!

1. I do a variant of this. I pull up a loop and then tie together with the working yarn. And it's easy to open up when needed. 2. Threading by folding definitely changed my life when I learned it. I've used it ever since and wonder why I EVER bothered threading it with the end. It's especially a game changer for those fluffier yarns. And, yes, metal needles all the way. I use bent end, pointy tip needles that are, tragically, discontinued. But I've hunted down multiple packages of them and paid more than retail just to have a big supply of them since I NEVER want to have to use any other needles. Lol 3. I don't always use something to keep track of my rows. But for more complicated patterns I've used a sticky note and just move it along the pattern so the sticky covers the previous rows and is just over the row I'm working. This also works really well for charts that are not in the round (and charts are actually my preference). 4. I don't do amigurumi but, yes, yarn under is the way to go. However, I've definitely had to correct newbies who want to default to yarn under for their regular stitches, explaining that it'll make their stitches too tight which you only want for certain projects (such as ami). 5 oh my stars, yes! I weigh all the time for SO many reasons. You can figure out how much yarn you need for a particular size based on a swatch. You can weigh before and after a row to determine how many more rows you can get out of that ball. And on and on. I weigh yarn for projects all.the.time! I've seen people talk about that more recently but, honestly, I just did it instinctively because I figured: it's an equation. I just need to solve for x, effectively. And I've got the numbers on the ball band (or in some cases the ravelry database) to plug in to the equation. I weigh things so often that I bought a second digital scale so that I can keep one in my main crochet area. Beat the pants off of stealing the one from the kitchen all the time. LOL

The threading hack is GREAT!!!

I love your hacks. Help a lot. Been crocheting for 40 years

Ok you are just a genius! How have i never thought of ANY of these ideas in all my 52 years?!?

I like the stitch to make those tiny critters! The math one is helpful also. All good but these helped me.

Omygosh! That last hack is brilliant!

Thanks for the tip about weight and yards. Most definitely will use it from now on. 👏❤

Wow! Hacks I haven’t heard a million times! Thx!

Just yesterday I actually completely frogged a 4” coaster to find out how many yards of yarn I used for my written pattern. Thanks to you, next time I will simply weigh it 💛

I create a lot of donation items and because of this I receive a lot of donation yarn, much of which is leftover yarn. I like to re-skein my yarn, weigh it and estimate its yardage. I'm so pleased to see yo share how to identify yardage in used yarn. (s I'm a video watcher not blogger) I have tried to share this tip in comments but having you include this tip in a helpful video will surely be a great help to many, many Crafters. Thank you

Thank you fir these hacks. I especially enjoyed the weight measure.

Thank you so much for the tips. I quite like the IPhone hack, and an easy way to know if you have enough yarn for a project; you made the instructions for this very clear.

Do love your 🎉ideas

All of the hacks are great, but taking a picture of the patterns and highlighting is a big game-changer for me! Thanks!

I loved the hack about figuring out how much yarn I have. I have often wondered if there was a way to figure that out. Thank you for all the tips

I'm an old school crochet/knitter and I loved seeing those long worded row instructions. I have a ton of those books and have made doilies, table covers, and bedspreads. I always use a post-it note to stick under where I stop- which row, which part of the instructions within that row. It also helps if it tells you to do that rep a certain number of times by making tally marks each time you complete one.

Love the weight formula!

I love the needle hack, omg THANK YOU SO MUCH

I like to use a stitch marker to keep my working loop from unraveling when I need to set it aside.

Fantastic hacks! Thanks so much ! Cheers!

Great ideas that will really help. Thank You.

Thank you for the formula for yarn.

Last hack is super

Just discovered your channel and love your tips. I'm a retired chemistry teacher and I taught that conversion method for many things we did in class. The rule is start with what you know... divide by the same unit and multiply by the unit that is equivalent. Works for anything in your life that you need to convert. Thanks!

The threading the needle hack is one I’ve used since Home Ec in school! 😃 Great tips, as always. 👍

I'm so happy to know these!

thanks for the yards hack.. love it

OMG! Threading a yarn needle! Wow!

That threading the needle is cool! I never would have thought of that. Thank You.💗

Hack number 5!!!!!!

Fantastic! Thanks.

Love it, Love it! Thank you so much for your Hacks. I so appreciate you taking the time to share these!

Liked all your hacks Thank you.

Love your helps!!

Really Awesome! Lots of great hacks!

These hacks are all great !! Thank you for sharing them .

Thanks for sharing, love the weight verses yardage measurements

I love the one of the pattern using the highlighter.

Love them all. Thank you.

Thank you for these crochet hacks, I have just gotten back to crochet after retiring from the workforce. I have never weighed my yarn before, but will from now on because it is simple math formal. I subscribe to your channel in hopes of more crochet tips and inspiration.

The threading the needle hack has changed my life! Thank you so dang much!!

Love the yarn amount hack, brilliant

These hacks are all amazing! Thank you for sharing ❤

#5 is the best one. Thanks!

So helpful !!! thanks

Thank you for the math lesson. I am so happy to be able to know how to be able figure out yardage. I need to watch your other hack videos.

Thank you! I put it all in a spreadsheet for my next project.

This is useful, thank so much!

The photo hack is an awesome idea!!! Thx

Amazing hacks never thought of weighing the yarn to see what’s left thank you

Great stuff!!

Love these hacks. New to crochet,

Great hacks, thank you.

This video was EXTREMELY informative and helpful. THANK YOU!!!!

OMG! How did I not know these things?! Oh yeah, I know. I did t see this vid! 😹😹👏👏👏👏

Hi great tips special one the weight to know if you have enough yarn just great thank you Nora

Loved the threading the yarn needle video. Thanks

Great hacks!!

Very helpful information! Thank you for sharing!💕

Great hacks I knew all the first four but the last one where you weigh the yarn to find out how much you got left, that's a brilliant one thank you so much from Western Australia 🇦🇺🌹🌹🌹🤗😊

Great tips! I've been using the folded tip to a needle for forever. RE weighing yarn: Since you NEED the label, I'm thinking - put the yarn and label into a zip bag and work from there. When you are done, you just have to zip the bag closed. This would keep the yarn and the label together.

Never heard of the weighing the yarn. Great idea. Thanks.

Hello, I’m Newbie here. I loved the hack figuring out how much yarn I still have, the yarn weighing to find out the yardage…..wow, is something and how to keep the track of the pattern. Thank you for all the great hacks!

Great hacks!! I saw your other video a couple of weeks ago & have used the chainless start hack a lot already. Love that one! I'm so glad you shared a way to figure out yarn amounts. I tried to figure it out for myself a while back and got completely confused. You're right, though, it's so easy! Thanks so much!

I love them all. Thank you and I like the progress...yee haa 🤣

I love ❤️ how ya figured out how to weigh the ball of yarn and know what you can make with it! Great advice!!!

You're totally awesome girl!!!

All tricks well explained. Thanks.

Thanks for this video! I love the weight/ yardage hack! I will try to use it to help use up all of my remnant balls of yarn. I’ve also used the needle threading technique for years.

Have had the problem of how many yds left when I did not keep the label. Guess I will be keeping labels now, ha, ha. But I usually tend to buy the same brands so I can always use a label from another skein. Awesome hack, thanks.

So many , many informative tips ❣❣❣Thank You

I like the amount left in a ball of yarn! I have always wondered about that!! But I liked the way you showed to thread the needle with different kinds of yarn!! Thank you so much, Norma Collins from Texas

Very cool

Brilliant

Thanks again

I love these videos, can't wait to watch more of yours! Also, if the video is "too long", you can speed it up with the playback speed 🤷‍♀️

Wow the 5th hack blows my mind!!! Thanks for the excellent video and information!

You are a good teacher, Amanda, THANK YOU!

Amazing

Loved how to measure how much yarn you have on hand!!!!!

I’ve done the algebra calculation to determine yardage before, but your version is simpler than mine!

Great hacks. I especially like the one about threading the needle, thank you! ❤

Love the hacks!

You can also pull the loop and tie it to the working yarn. Much faster to start working again

These hacks are great. Taught myself most already. Loved the phone pic. Had a suggestion for your Amigurumi decrease stitch. If you just go threw the Outside loops only your won't even see the decrease at all. So instead of going threw both lips go under the outside on 1st & 2nd stitch. It looks amazing and the stitch is nice and tight. I love the "going under on the hook trick" and especially weighing the yarn to see how much i used. I'll use those next time! Thanks 😊

The yardage equation is fantastic!

Thank you for this video

Good to know how to work out if you have enough wool in your stash for a certain pattern. All ways pin label on the left over wool for that reason.

Useful! Good video

Wow!

Thanks for the tips! How to calculate the amount of yarn for a project will be very useful. Thank you 💕🧶

I really like the "crossed Single crochet". The YO vs YU has actually been a question I've had for years. I'v always liked the look of Yarn Under but forced myself to follow patt as written in case I end up messing the look of the pattern. I should have thought to test a swatch. Thank you for identifying that yarn under is an acceptable stitch.

Why didn't I think of this (weighing the yarn)?! Makes sense. I'll be doing this from now on- life saver. I'm so glad I ran into you!

I enjoyed your hacks so much I just subscribed and liked. Thanks for sharing