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Aeelike Crochet Kit Review: A Complete Starter Set With One Weak Link
Seventy-six pieces for under twenty dollars. Nine hooks, twelve skeins of yarn, stitch markers, scissors, a tape measure, a booklet, and a bag to carry it all in. On paper the Aeelike crochet kit looks like the answer to every beginner's problem — everything you need arrives at once, nothing to source separately, nothing to guess at.
That's roughly how 1,400 buyers describe it too. And then a good chunk of them get to the yarn.
I pulled the full review breakdown on this kit rather than skimming the star average, because the star average here hides more than it tells. What follows is what's actually in the box, where the money goes, and what you should plan to replace.
The short version
Verdict: Worth buying for the tools. The hooks alone justify the price. Plan on buying your own yarn once you've practiced.
Rating: 3.8 / 5
Best for: Total beginners who want a hook range, markers and a bag in one order, and who aren't precious about which yarn they learn on.
Skip if: You already have hooks, or you want yarn you'll still be using after the practice phase.
The navy 76-piece set as sold. Image: Amazon listing.
What's actually in the box
The listing is unusually specific, which makes this part easy:
| Crochet hooks | 9 ergonomic soft-grip, 2.0mm to 6.0mm |
| Knitting needles | 14 aluminium, 2.0mm to 10.0mm |
| Yarn | 12 acrylic skeins, 655 yards / 10.56 oz total, colours random |
| Stitch markers | 20 |
| Tapestry needles | 9 metal |
| Point protectors | 6 |
| Tools | Tape measure, scissors, 2 pom pom makers |
| Reference | Instruction booklet |
| Storage | Navy polyester zip tote, 9 × 5 × 1 in |
| Total | 76 pieces |
That's a real spread. Nine hooks covering the sizes a beginner will actually use, and enough markers to keep a project from unravelling on you. Sixty-four of the sixty-five buyers who mentioned completeness in their reviews were happy with it. That's not a marketing line, it's close to unanimity.
The fourteen knitting needles are the odd inclusion. If you only crochet, they sit in the bag unused — but at this price they cost you almost nothing, and they make the set a viable gift for someone whose craft you aren't sure about.
The hooks are the reason to buy
Ergonomic soft-grip handles in a full beginner-to-intermediate size range, from 2.0mm up to 6.0mm, for under twenty dollars including a bag and forty other items. Comparable single hooks from the well-known ergonomic brands run several dollars each. If you're going to buy this kit, buy it for these and treat everything else as bonus.
Durability complaints in the reviews land on the yarn, not the hooks — twenty of the twenty-five durability mentions were negative and they're almost all about the yarn splitting and fraying. The hooks hold up.
The yarn is the weak link
Here's where the kit falls down, and the numbers are blunt. Of thirty-nine reviews mentioning yarn quality, thirty-three were negative. Of thirty mentions of yarn size, twenty-one were negative — buyers describing it as thin. Splitting is the recurring complaint: the strand separates mid-stitch, so instead of catching one loop you catch part of one, and a beginner has no idea whether the mistake is theirs or the yarn's.
Two things make that worse in this specific kit. First, the yarn is what a beginner practices on, so its flaws land at exactly the moment someone is deciding whether they're any good at crochet. Second, colours ship at random — ordering the navy bag gets you a navy bag and whatever skeins the warehouse grabbed. Some buyers got a coherent palette; plenty didn't.
The fix is cheap and worth doing up front: use the included yarn for your first swatches, and buy two or three skeins of a smooth, tightly-plied worsted from a craft shop for anything you intend to keep. The kit's yarn becomes practice material, which is the job it's actually suited to.
The booklet
Feedback on the instructions is genuinely mixed rather than lopsided. It covers the basics, and forty-eight of fifty-three reviewers mentioning beginner suitability felt the kit was approachable — but the booklet is thin, and diagrams only carry you so far with hook placement. Pair it with video. If you want a kit built around a proper guided project rather than a general assortment, the Magimuse beginner kit is structured that way.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Nine ergonomic hooks across a useful size range
- Genuinely complete — nothing else to buy to start
- Twenty stitch markers, not the token five or six
- Bag keeps it all together and travels well
- Under twenty dollars for 76 pieces
- Gift-ready for someone whose craft you're unsure of
Cons
- Yarn splits and frays — 33 of 39 mentions negative
- Yarn is thin; 21 of 30 size mentions negative
- Colours ship at random, bag colour doesn't match yarn
- Booklet too thin to replace video tutorials
- Fourteen knitting needles wasted if you only crochet
- Bag is 1 inch deep — holds the kit, not a project
Who it suits
Buy it if you want a hook range, markers and storage in one cheap order and you're relaxed about the yarn being disposable. Buy it as a gift for a teenager or an adult who's shown interest — the age range is listed 13 to 80 and the format reads as a present.
Skip it if you already own hooks, or if your plan is to make something finished from the included yarn. For a project-led first experience with better materials, a flower bouquet blanket kit gives you a defined end product. If you'd rather assemble your own tools, buy a single good hook in the size you need and pick yarn in person.
Questions buyers ask
Is this suitable for a total beginner? For the tools, yes — forty-eight of fifty-three reviewers on the subject said so. For the yarn, expect a learning curve you wouldn't have with better material.
Can I choose the yarn colours? No. The bag colour is yours to pick from nine options; the skeins are random.
What weight is the yarn? The listing doesn't state it. Buyers consistently describe it as thin, which points to sport or light DK rather than worsted. Match your hook to whatever yarn you actually use, not to the kit's.
Does it include patterns? A general instruction booklet, not a set of project patterns.
Is it a good gift? Yes, and the box presentation and bag support that. Add a couple of decent skeins and you've fixed its main flaw before it's opened.
Verdict
The Aeelike kit earns its 4.5 stars on the strength of what it packs in for the money, and it loses points on the one component a beginner depends on most. The hooks, markers, bag and sheer completeness are real value at $19.79. The yarn is a starter supply you'll graduate past in a fortnight.
Buy it as a tool kit that happens to come with practice yarn. Do that, spend eight dollars on proper yarn alongside it, and it's a genuinely good first purchase. Buy it expecting usable finished-garment yarn and you'll be writing one of those thirty-three reviews.
Price and rating captured 8 November 2026: $19.79 on a limited-time deal from $21.99, 4.5/5 from 1,432 ratings. Deal pricing moves — confirm before ordering.
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