(n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
(v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Googlers in 2014 were also asking for tips on learning new skills, with the most popular being “how to draw”, followed by “how to kiss” and “how to crochet”.
(2) Because of our slightly younger average age and city location, we were supposedly one of the "new wave" WIs that had started springing up in the years before – groups that rejected crochet and did more modern activities, often with more than a tinge of irony.
(3) • 370-372 Morningside Road, 0131-447 3042, loopylornas.com Slow down with a bit of knitting K1 Yarns, Edinburgh Fabulous knitting shop K1 Yarns is running workshops every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in August, including Fair Isle knitting classes, beginners courses on knitting and crochet and a very handy class on how to knit socks (prices start from £15).
(4) Some of them presented talks in which they applied high level maths to crochet, knitting, needlework and quilting.
(5) Sales of knitted or crocheted scarves and shawls also edged down in 2014.
(6) It's all enormously cheering, with Gatiss once again succeeding in crocheting the macabre into something you could place a cupcake on.
(7) You have local working-class Germans who remained in Kreuzberg, and Turkish migrants collaborating; so everything is written in both German and Turkish, they’re all networked.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The gigantic crocheted tribute to Wes Anderson which appeared at Bushwick Flea Market in Brooklyn.
(8) After a “yarn-bombing” artist, with the support of the hipster Bushwick Flea market, put up a 15ft crochet homage to Wes Anderson on the exterior wall of his family home in Bushwick without asking for permission, New Yorker Will Giron wrote: “Gentrification has gotten to the point where every time I see a group of young white millennials in the hood my heart starts racing and a sense of anxiety starts falling over me.” *** The argument that gentrification represents a kind of urban neocolonialism is hard to miss.
(9) There is a palpable likemindedness, a set of shared assumptions that go beyond "I assume you're going to put some Tunisian crochet in that patchwork quilt."
(10) Elsewhere, I saw someone crocheting a bra, which should really be new grist to the mill of bra-based feminist disparagement.
(11) I feared being at a party, some years hence, where all the other women were assiduously crocheting fruit stalks with their tongues, while I stood in the corner going, "So!
(12) "Then one day, overhearing me ask the shopkeeper if my crochet magazine had arrived, a total stranger suggested I come to the Knit and Natter group meeting in Biddulph library on Wednesday afternoon … It seems an exaggerated claim, I know, but the ensuing visit to the library has made such a radical change to my life.
(13) Use of the perforator, hook and crochet, and manual dilatation of the cervix had been abandoned.
(14) (A branch calling itself the Shoreditch Sisters , set up in 2007, has concerned itself with crocheting protest signs and campaigning against female genital mutilation.)
(15) "Ian Johnson, a former Boise State, All-American, Running Back, in American Gridiron Football, used to crochet all the time," reports Scott Davenport.
(16) In fact, I believe that MP Stella Creasy’s PhD in social psychology is composed entirely of sixth form essays, which she crocheted together while looking attractive and politely agreeing with Tories.
(17) This is actually how Sørensen speaks: Her sentences are constructed like intricate pieces of crochet, the words slotted into place in English that sounds as if it has been lifted from the pages of a period drama.
(18) A post shared by Vanity Fair (@vanityfair) on Feb 28, 2017 at 10:02am PST The photo shoot, by the acclaimed fashion photographer Tim Walker, showed Watson in an open, white crocheted bolero jacket with no bra or shirt underneath.
(19) The women have asked volunteers around the world to help sew, crochet or knit pink hats with ears by using simple patterns available on the project’s website.
(20) UK manufacturers of knitted or crocheted gloves reported a 21% drop in sales between 2013 and 2014, down from £2.5m to £2.0m, the ONS said.
Crotchet
Definition:
(n.) A forked support; a crotch.
(n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note.
(n.) An indentation in the glacis of the covered way, at a point where a traverse is placed.
(n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, either forward or rearward, so as to form a line nearly perpendicular to the general line of battle.
(n.) A bracket. See Bracket.
(n.) An instrument of a hooked form, used in certain cases in the extraction of a fetus.
(n.) A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.
(v. i.) To play music in measured time.
Example Sentences:
(1) I used to colour in crotchets with my tongue out" – he mimes a pose of schoolboyish concentration – "but a few years ago I finally sped up."
(2) 8.03pm BST The plucky strings are basically Mel and Sue made into quavers and crotchets.
(3) Six share third place: three classical music specialists, Crotchet , MDT and Presto Classical .