Hooking Good

21/04/2026

We need you!

18/04/2026

Another incredibly community effort from The Yarnery

Let’s get this quacker the trophy it deserves.

Click the link below and “like” to vote!

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The Yarnery

27/12/2025

Edit: FULLY BOOKED

Workshop Announcement!

Mosaic Crochet Workshop at The Yarnery with Hooking Good

🧶 February 7th 2026 13:30 - 16:30 🧶

During this three hour workshop, you’ll learn how to start and finish a piece Mosaic Crochet. We’ll discuss using the right hooks and yarns before using a variety of different stitches to create your own mosaics. Basic crochet knowledge is essential before attending this workshop. You will already need to know how to hold the hook, feed the yarn, chain, and make double crochet stitches (UK terms) and treble crochet stitches (UK terms)

If there is time on the day we will cover how to add an envelope border to your sample piece which can be used on a wide range of projects and it’s perfect for hiding ends that you don’t want to sew in!

All materials will be provided for use on the day (but please bring a preferred hook with you if you have one) as well as lovely hot drinks for all workshoppers.

If you’d like to continue your project at home, we stock an extensive selection of yarn and wool for you to choose from and purchase to take away. Workshoppers will receive a 15% discount on the day.

This session is limited to eight people and a fifty percent booking fee of this £36 workshop will be taken to reserve your space. We ask that all deposits are made within 24 hours to make it fair to those on the waiting list.

43 St James Street
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 3EY

27/12/2025

This is absolutely adorbs 🥰

22/12/2025

Good morning, Yarnies!

I have written up the pattern I created inspired by The Game of Wool’s Big Knitter of the Week badge and wanted to share it ahead of the final so that you can make your own and award it to a Yarny in your life. Or… put it straight on your own jumper which is the first thing you should do!

The pattern is written in UK terms and it’s crocheted using rows of double crochet and loop stitch.

Pro tip: If you hold your hook like a knife, wrap the yarn around your index finger to create the loop. If you hold your hook like a pen, wrap the yarn around your thumb to create the loop.

I hope you enjoy this free pattern. Please do share with me the sheep you create, I’d love to see them! You could have fun with colour or you could upscale your sheep by working with two strands of dk and a larger hook - there’s lots of scope.

Thank you all for the positive feedback on the samples I shared last week, it’s been super fun making a flock and I really hope you enjoy making yours.

I used baa ram ewe’s Pip 4ply but you could use anything you have to hand or a vegan substitute if preferred.

Save this for later, send it to your pals or print off to add to your 2026 crafting bucket list.

Hannah 🧶

14/12/2025

Here I go again…

Another week of watching The Game of Wool judges creep around the Yarn Barn waiting to award Holger a sheep for whatever it is he decides to do with twelve hours.

Did you notice the cleverly edited footage of them doing the weight test on his crocheted bag with Sheila holding the sides and Di holding the handles? Do they think we’re all stupid?

Quelle surprise, Isaac got cast off which was as we all expected. Especially after he’d been partnered with Ailsa and the winners of two sheep had been picked to work together for the group challenge. I did really like their catwalk design but as I’ve said before, Holger is an actual designer so at an unfair advantage and his part in that particular task was hand sewing pieces together that Lydia had intricately knit.

Was her bag better than his? Yah. Miles better. The bag Holger designed was the bag you buy on the side of the road in Greece. It’s the bag you use for one summer to go to the beach with and then leave at the back of the wardrobe to be forgotten in Yarnia.

The obvious favouritism has been palpable throughout the series.

I honestly have to hand it to all of the contestants, past and present, for remaining calm in the face of Tom Daley’s blatant condescension towards them each week. Sew your ends in.

Di Gilpin - Just take that s**t out of your hair you look absolutely ridiculous. It isn’t clever. It’s not ok. It makes us all very uncomfortable.

Did the right “knitter” go home?

Hannah 🧶

11/12/2025

Shall we take a beat to obsess over Alma’s latest crochet make? Yes, we shall!

Alma has used James C. Brett’s Marble Chunky (obviously because it’s GLORIOUS) to create this Christmas present for her mum and we all LOVE it. It has POCKETS!

Alma was a crocheter before she joined the groups at The Yarnery and also comes to our Afternoon Purlers sessions on a Thursday afternoon because she wants to up her knitting game too.

We love having you at the classes and we think your creation is increds. Thanks for being part of Hookers and brightening our days.

Hannah 🧶

10/12/2025

Phewfies! Sorry everyone, I haven’t posted much crochet stuffs recently. The Yarnery has been keeping me very busy (not complaining!) but I haven’t had as much time as usual to run both pages.

Just wanted to pop on to share with you this INCREDIBLE make by one of my wonderful customers, Linda, who comes over to Chester when she can and crochets like an absolute baddy.

She got her Sirdar Halloween CAL from me back in August but decided to add her own stamp to it and change the middle from a cauldron to this increds howling wolf!

I absolutely LOVE what you’ve done with it, Linda and I can’t wait to see what you’ll be working on next…

Hannah 🧶

10/12/2025

06/12/2025

Another lovely day with lovely people at The Yarnery today. My workshoppers this afternoon had already spent the morning upstairs in the studio with Inspire Block Printing and hand printed their Christmas stockings with beautiful hand carved Indian block prints and came down to crochet a cuff in to the top using King Cole’s super chunky Velveteen yarn which was perfect for the job!

Thank you to all of those who made it such a lovely experience. Rosie, Rea, Julie, Claire, Ellie and Michelle - you all brightened up my afternoon and I LOVE what you all created.

We’ve got our first FULLY BOOKED - The Christmas Crocial of December tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing those of you booked on from 11!

Have a lovely evening, everyone

Hannah 🧶

06/12/2025

06/12/2025

This this a thousand times this. Just my pal across the pond saying some amazing stuff👇🏼
WOMANWALKINGAWIRE

I'm going to rant for a minute...
Why do we, societally, hate women's bodies so much?
This week someone in my crochet group shared an absolutely amazing v***a balaclava and it was glorious. Subsequently, people from the group shared her photo without permission or credit to crochet shaming groups and other groups. The comments... "Just because you can crochet something doesn't mean you should" which I completely disagree with. Unless it's something hateful, you absolutely should crochet something just because you can and want to, because it's art. Other comments... "Ew" and similar.
Do you know how many patterns are out there for crochet pen*ses? And while those do get SOME hateful comments, they do not get shared in shaming groups (unless they are fantastically unhinged) or get the same level of disgust as when an artist shares something depicting a v***a no matter what level of quality the item is.
There are several things that sadden me about this. One, is that people are sharing anything to craft shaming groups at all. I think it's pathetic. They are trying to get attention for someone else's creation. Yet they want to pass it off as disgusting or hideous in some way, but want some part of the attention for themselves over that thing. Or, I guess maybe they want some validation for their feelings about said thing and a momentary high of inclusion hidden in a group bullying practice that seems harmless because they don't think the OG will see it. But, they will probably see it at some point and it will be hurtful on many levels.
Second, it's women sharing these things and being disgusted over these things when it's their own bodies! Your body isn't disgusting. And I would rather see a v***a any day over a peen, be it crocheted or otherwise. Stop feeding into this lie that there is something shameful or nasty about women's bodies!
We are exquisitely formed. Let's break away from this conditioned idea that our parts are gross.
Thank you for listening to my rant. Obviously this isn't the creation that was shared in the shaming groups, this is my Sapphic Granny Square uncensored.