Damero Crochet Hook Case: An Honest Review of What It Does and Does Not Do

I bought the Damero crochet hook case myself, on Amazon, in October 2025, and it has ridden in my project bag every work week since. Nobody sent it to me and nobody asked for this piece. That matters, because an honest review has to include the parts a listing will not mention, and this case has a few of those.

I drive regional routes out of Visalia, California. I crochet on my thirty minute break and on my ten hour break, and at my kitchen table on weekends. That is maybe six or seven hours of yarn a week, which is not a lot by some standards and is plenty to notice when a tool fights me. My right thumb and first two fingers get stiff after a long driving day. Nothing dramatic. Just enough that I want my hooks where I left them and not at the bottom of a bag.

How I Have Used It

Before this case I used a plain canvas zipper pouch. It worked in the way a drawer works. Everything went in together, everything came out together, and I spent a few seconds every single time digging for the H hook I reach for most. The zip case that came with my BCMRUN hooks stays home in a drawer, because it is flat and thin and everything has to be lined up just so. What I wanted was simple. Something that opened up, held the hooks upright where I could see the sizes, and did not eat half of a small bag. That is a short list, and it still took me a while to find anything that met it.

Sunday night I lay it all out on the kitchen table. Nine hooks into the slots in size order. Scissors into the left pouch, blades down. Two bent tip needles and the counter into the middle pouch. The right pouch stays empty unless I have a project that needs markers. Then the case goes into the project bag, upright, next to the yarn and a pen. The whole thing takes about four minutes, and it means Monday morning I am not looking for anything. Four minutes a week is the entire reason I bought this.

On the road the routine is shorter. Case out of the bag, set on the seat beside me, open it up. The box shape means I do not have to hold it open with one hand while the other hand digs. When the break is over I close it and drop it back in the bag. I have done that two hundred times now and it has not once spilled. That is the kind of claim I can actually make, because it is the only thing I have actually tested.

What the Case Is, in Plain Terms

Here is what Damero says the case does and what that means in a truck cab. The Medium is sized for hooks and needles up to 6.5 inches, which covers my BCMRUN set with room left over. The outside is a canvas coated material, and the material type is listed as vinyl, which is why dust wipes off it instead of working into it. The whole thing is built as a box rather than a flat sleeve, so it stands up on a seat or a table instead of collapsing while I am trying to pull a hook out one handed. Inside there are slots for the hooks with a top flap that folds down over them, and three mesh pouches on the other side for everything that is not a hook.

Mine carries nine BCMRUN hooks, the SINGER ProSeries 4-1/2 inch scissors I bought in January 2025, two bent tip metal needles out of my FIVEIZERO set, and the Clover Mini Kacha-Kacha counter I use to count rows. The scissors sit in one pouch. The two needles and the counter share another. That leaves the third pouch for a ball band or a couple of stitch markers, and most weeks it is empty, which I prefer. An empty pouch means I have not started cramming.

What Nobody Tells You: It Holds Less Than the Photos Suggest

Every picture of a hook case shows it full, and mine is full, and it still holds less than those pictures led me to expect. This is a case for hooks and small accessories. It is not a project bag. It will not hold a skein, it will not hold a half finished dishcloth, and if you push a ball of cotton in with the hooks you will find out quickly that the top flap has a job and that job needs the hooks to lie flat. My yarn goes in the project bag and the case goes in on top of it. That arrangement works. It is worth knowing before you order rather than after.

The size limit is the other thing the photos do not tell you. Medium means up to 6.5 inches, and that is most of what a crocheter owns, but measure your longest hook before you buy. My BCMRUN hooks sit in their slots with the heads under the flap and never touch it. My FIVEIZERO needles are far shorter, and I keep those in a mesh pouch rather than a slot, because short metal down in a deep pocket is a fishing trip every time. If you work with long Tunisian hooks or anything past that limit, this is the wrong size and the larger one is what you want.

Nine hooks, a pair of scissors, two needles and a row counter, all in a case that stands up on its own on a truck seat. That is the whole claim, and it holds.

The Top Flap and the Bottom Slots Do More Than They Sound Like They Do

The feature I did not think I needed is the top flap. The listing says the top flap and the bottom slots keep different hooks from falling out, and that is exactly what happens. My old pouch turned over inside a bag a dozen times a week. Hooks slid loose and I would find one under the seat three days later, usually the size I wanted. With this case the hooks drop into the bottom slots and the flap folds over the heads. When the case is closed and the whole bag rolls off the passenger seat onto the floor, nothing moves. I have opened it after a week of that and found every hook exactly where I left it.

The slots do a second job the flap does not, which is order. Mine go in by size, smallest to largest, and I can put a finger on the one I want without pulling three others out to read them. Twenty years ago I would have called that fussy. Now I get fifteen minutes at a time to work, and the difference between starting a row and spending the break sorting hooks is the difference between a good break and a wasted one.

Two Things People Ask About It

Will it fit in a small bag. Yes, and the box design is why. The listing says the box design will not take up too much space in a backpack or purse, and mine takes up about the footprint of a paperback. What it does take is a little height, because it stands up. In a tote that is fine. In a tight coat pocket it is not. It goes in the project bag, not on my person. The item weight is listed at 0.15 kg, which is nothing next to a ball of cotton.

Does it keep the hooks from falling out. Yes, and this is the part I would not have believed from a photo. The bottom slots hold the shanks and the top flap folds over the heads. I have carried it upside down by accident and opened it to find everything seated. That is the whole trick and it works. It is not a lock, so a hook set in crooked can still ride up, but I have not had one come out on its own yet.

A Year of Real Use: What Held Up and What I Would Change

The outside is the canvas coated material, listed as vinyl, and both of those earn their keep in a cab. Dust wipes off with a damp cloth. Spilled coffee sits on the surface long enough to blot it. The corners are where a case like this usually goes first, and mine are still square after a year of being pushed into a bag and hauled back out. The one part I would treat gently is the mesh. It is the softest material on the case and I would not drag it across a rough tailgate. That is a caution, not a complaint.

What I would change is small. I would add a way to label the slots. My hooks are told apart by their own grips, so I do not need numbers, but anyone with two sets of the same brand would want a mark or a strip. There is no such strip. You get slots, a flap and three pouches, and the order you put things in is the only filing system. That has been enough for me. It may not be enough for someone with a bigger collection than mine.

What It Does Not Do

It does not come with hooks. The listing says empty, and empty is what arrives, so budget for the hooks separately. It does not hold yarn, it does not hold a work in progress, and it does not hang on anything. It lives inside a bag rather than on your shoulder. It does not protect against a puddle. The coated canvas handles dust and spills fine, and I would not set it down in standing water and expect the hooks inside to stay dry. And it does not tell you which hook is which. That is on you and your filing system.

None of that is a flaw exactly. It is a case doing the job of a case. The reason I list it is that most reviews of a hook case are written by someone who is pleased with a new thing and has not yet tried to make it do something it cannot. I have tried. This one does the two things I bought it for, which are keep the hooks in order and keep the hooks off the floor of a truck. Everything past that, I improvise, the same as I did with the pouch.

How It Compares to the Pouch I Used for Years

A plain zipper pouch is lighter, it holds more loose stuff, and it costs less. I will not pretend otherwise. What a pouch will not do is keep nine hooks upright and in order, and after a couple of years of digging through mine on a ten hour break, I stopped caring about the difference in weight. The pouch now holds stitch markers at home and it is a fine retirement. If you carry three hooks and a pair of nail clippers, the pouch is still the right answer and you should keep using it. If you carry a set, the case earns the space it takes.

Who This Is For

This is for the crocheter who owns a set of hooks and carries more than two of them out of the house. It is for anyone who works in a waiting room, a passenger seat, a break room or a truck cab, and who is tired of arriving with the wrong hook in hand. It suits a beginner who bought a set and has nowhere to put it, and it suits someone like me who has been at this for twenty years and finally wants the H hook to be where the H hook goes. If your hooks travel, this is the case I would hand you.

Who Should Skip It

Skip it if you own three hooks and keep them in a drawer at home. Skip it if your hooks run longer than 6.5 inches, because the Medium is not built for those. Skip it if you want one bag that carries the hooks and the yarn and the work in progress, because this is not that bag and it will not become that bag. And skip it if you want something soft you can squash into a coat pocket. The box shape is the whole point. If you do not want the box shape, you do not want this case.

The Bottom Line, One Year In

I have bought a lot of small organizing things that turned out to be a solution to a problem I did not have. The Damero case solved a problem I did have, which was that my hooks were loose in a bag and I could not find the size I wanted. It is not fancy. The outside is coated canvas, the inside is slots and three mesh pouches and a flap, and it does exactly what the listing says it does. That is a lower bar than it sounds. Very few listings clear it.