Some hooks' flattened area (suitable for knife hold) are so large that even placing a flexible grip (of one type or another) is not enough to make the shaft suitable for a pencilholder like me. I need a perfectly round hook handle.

So, I've been busy making polymer clay covers for 3 of my hooks (so far) and I just love them, even though they look a bit, how shall I say, home-made. Does anyone else here do this?

When I first learned to crochet 40 yr. ago as a teenager, everybody that I knew used the pencil hold. Now, it seems to have gone the other way.