So after all this crocheting with a boring grey metal hook I’ve been getting a bit bored, especially when I’ve seen so many pics with metal and plastic hooks in so many delicious colours!!

I headed to my local Hobby Craft first, and found these three lovelies in the sale section, only 99p each

Then I took a look on eBay. I found an amazing array of incredible hooks; glass, wood, plastic, metal; pinks, purples, greens, blues, yellows – a whole rainbow of colours and materials!! So I bought these two packs as the were so yummy looking:

So now I was so inspired by my rainbow of crochet hooks I started on my next project (come back next week for that), but I hit a BIG problem!! My crochet hook broke :’( In fact, I broke firstly my HobbyCraft red 5mm, then my eBay yellow 5mm, and then my eBay blue 5.5mm!! Perhaps plastic hooks were not such a good idea after all?!

I had to venture to my local yarn shop which I knew had a limited supply of hooks, but when I got there I found a lovely blue metal hook (no grey in sight, horray!) and I’ve been using those ever since.

So… for anyone else who is looking to buy some bright or more interesting crochet hooks; I would recommend trying eBay – they have a big selection. But if you do go for a plastic hook, don’t buy anything that is below a 7mm – because it’s just going to break!