Crochet Speed Hacks: Discover the Top 9 Essential Tips [HOW TO CROCHET FASTER!]

What a great, informative video. I can't wait to try them. Thank you Toni.

you always have such incredible and infectious energy!!!

I started crocheting today, thought I’d watch this video bc I am veeeerry slow atm 😂. It’s a very informative and calming video, I’ve put what I can from these tips to use and I’m already seeing some improvement already thank you!!!! It’s still a madness to me that ppl can crochet so fast😂😂😂

My wife ADORES you ! She has been charmed by the colors you put together. Liked & subscribed!

While most of your tips are fantastic, I strongly disagree with one of them. Holding your work in your lap will not decrease the strain on your neck, it actually increases it because you are compressing the disc between the two vertebrae to look downward while creating a constant prolonged stretch to the muscles and tendons in the back of your neck and across your shoulders. I once did a graphgan that took 9 months and the constant compression on one edge of the disc caused it to herniate out one side of the vertebra putting me in the hospital for 19 days needing surgery and physical therapy. According to orthopedic doctors the best posture for anyone who does crafts regardless of what kind is to have your work either on a table or propped up by pillows to a level where you can see what your doing but basically holding your head level as if to look straight forward. This takes pressure off both the neck and the shoulders. If you need to put pillows on your armrests to raise your arms so that they are at your side with your elbow bent at 45 degree angle do so (this is the same posture they always taught in typing classes to avoid upper back strain.) After I recovered from my surgery my husband made me a table on wheels that is wide enough to roll over the top of recliner so that I can hold my work up and look forward and it has not only reduced shoulder and neck pain but made me faster.

I love your energy so much, i really wanted to come meet you at the last event you were in ohio, i didn't have the funds and found out about it last minute. I have been saving my money to take a class in shaker at around the table yarns, i am left handed and my dream is to master crocheting, its so easy to give up and hard to keep going especially when I feel like everything I try is an epic fail. I choose to keep following my dream i want to be good at this so badly i havent wanted anything so much in my life and i finally kno what it is. Thank you

All excellent advice! I’m a relative newbie and really appreciate all this great information- especially the clear callout on posture and repetitive injuries. I had to walk away from embroidery due to those issues and want to ensure I keep going on this new hobby. Thank you!

My strange tip: have multiple projects in different stages. I know it sounds like everything will take longer to finish, but if you have different projects preferably using different techniques or tensions you can spend longer crafting before you get sore because you are spreading the load on your body a bit more, and that way if you get stuck on something "need to look at this in daylight" "need to work out what went wrong and frog back" "need to wait for this garment that I'm blocking to dry before I sew the seams" you've got something else you can be doing.

I just came across this video/ your channel. First, let me just say that you're so sweet!! This is very informative and you are spot on, with regards to the whole posture thing!! Excellent video!! Thank you!!❤

I used to be a pencil holder when I started but eventually switched to the knife hold bc the pencil hold started giving me sore bumps on my fingers from the pressure and friction of the hook 😢
Its a shame cause I do feel I was faster when I did it that way but I prefer non painful bumpy fingers

Thanks🇺🇸👍❤️😁

Yup clover amour have been my go to since they came out

Ok when you did the seasoned crocheter pose I was feelin called out HARD!!! 😂 not my chiropractor gettin on to me for the same heckin thing 💀💀💀

I use a tension ring....I've been crocheting since August of last year. It's the only way I can keep my tension uniform.

Thank you , I just found your channel 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😇❤️❤️❤️

Omg, it’s midnight! But it’s been so long since I’ve tuned in. Health care systems, services,hospitals and rehabilitation centers have left me all but defeated. Did I mention Dr appointments, if you can get in or wait patiently till the right
Specialist is available.
I’m rebuilding my inner core and crochet is very important.
So I will be stopping by more often for your great projects &
Ideas.😊

How do you keep a round piece flat?

Gracias querida very good tips help me a lot God Bless you

One of the most ironic tips I have:
stitching fast takes time
practice makes perfect
time makes terrific
You have to have experience, practice, and patience to grow up to being a fast and perfected crocheter! Barely anyone can get it right on their first couple times <3

Excellent video. A must for my playlist.

I find it’s difficult to find a chair that’s comfortable, with your feet flat to the floor. I get sore hips, back and neck. Other than that your tips are knowledgeable. Thanks 👍

❤ TFS

a new trick I have found is when making my cakes out of the yarn skeins, I will take the center pull and wrap it over the label from the yarn. It serves multiple purposes, 1. to keep track of the center pull yarn, and 2. keeps the information on what yarn color, dye lot, ect.

i am literally starting to crochet. Have been watching so many videos I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed ..

I love the Clover Amores a d are all i use now!

If you want longevity for your hands, speed should not be a priority.
She said crocheting should be relaxing.

This helped so much! Thank you. I always take the yarn from the outside and it drives me crazy flopping around. It’s so much better grabbing from the middle!

Would you share the name of your yarn ball winder and where you purchased it from? I haven’t been able to find one like that! Thank you.

Is it just me or am I actually like crocheting while she's talking and experimenting while she's talking because like I'd rather do what she says while she saying it then doing it later and then forgetting about it

I started crocheting when I was 8 or so now I'm 11 and crocheting socks and gloves w/ no toutoreal! I have rilly bad postrer so I'll start trying out that tip. Thx

Very smart!

great video!!!!

I learn to crochet when I was a girl 65 years ago. Now I have arthritis and is sad because have problem with tension .I tried some recommendation but don’t work. I found your videos and I loved so I subscribe to your channel. Do you have a recommendation for my problem? I will have my first great grandson and I want to crochet some clothes. Thanks for sharing your videos.

Bro no way at the beginning of the video I was thinking like “damn did she crochet that sweater” and then she actually said “no I did not crochet this sweater” like how did she read my mind 💀

Thank you. I loved all your tips. I'm just a beginner with crochet and have done some cute amigrumi things. I'm looking to step into some bigger items now sticking to DC and SC to start so this will help me. Thank you so much.

the posture tips are really helpful, i've been trying to improve my posture anyway- you're example of newer crocheters being so crunched up is exactly how I've been doing it D: definitely going to focus on keeping that yarn closer to my lap! Thank you!

Awesome Advice! Thank you so much!

Thank you for these tips. Very helpful.

Thank you!!! Theres a couple of tips I didnt knowthe rest ive forgotten. Im picking up crocheting again and its taking forever on big projects😭.

I like how you are so vibrant and positive. You make my crochet day.

I’m content with my speed and have actually been doing most of those things already, but what I really want to know is what is that stitch in the thumbnail?? 👀

Great. Idea. I’ve been crocheting for over 60 years and I always learn something new. TY

I started to crochet at 15 im now 74 still crocheting like the wind. My only problem is that our summers here in South Africa are humid and my hands get sticky and the yarn doesn't flo so easily. But i find if i dust my hands with cornflour cornflour it helps 😊

You are an inspiration!!! 😊

my crochet position is to lay down with 2 pillows under my head and shoulders, and raise up my knees with a phone holder to watch whatever i want, and belive me, its too comfy

You are using the impressive mindsets of both an engineer and a physical therapist. Great video! ❤

What's funny is that over the past decade of me crocheting, I have slowly bu surely done 8/9 of these. I honestly jad no clue about the crochet pillow. I do wish I had haf you around when i first started though. 💜💜💜

"Yarn barf" made me chuckle.

For using a skein from the outside I use the 'Wool Jeanie'. It is perfect whether I'm crocheting continuously or pulling the yarn. And, it doesn't snag the wool at the bottom.