crocheter
crochet machine

At predetermined stitches, the crocheter slides one bead down and incorporates it into the fabric.

An individual crocheter begins work by producing a test swatch and compensating for any discrepancy by changing to a smaller or larger hook.

In another classroom, a crowd gathered around Lily Chin, the well-known pattern designer who had recently won the title of the fastest crocheter in the world.

Most crochet uses far less than 1/3 more yarn than knitting for comparable pieces, and a crocheter can get similar feel and drape to knitting by using a larger hook or thinner yarn.

He worked variously in his boyhood years as a newsboy, as an assistant to his father in teaching peasant children, as a crocheter of home manufactered wollen shawls, among other small jobs.

Start off in Park Slope, Brooklyn, where the Knitting Salon on Fifth Avenue, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, is run by Prophet, who calls herself "a knitter, crocheter, creator and evolving being."

The Guinness Book of Records, a 700-page volume chronicling the pinnacles of human achievement - the largest lollipop, the fastest crocheter, the best beer keg lifter - is fast becoming India's holy grail, its barometer of social status, its own arena of international acclaim.