Possible Clues:

• Decorative needlework using hooks
• Craft whose name means “little hook”
• Do some decorating work -- note time to go and time to stay
• Bit of music -- not the first time it's done with a hook
• Create blankets with hooked needles
• In music, a note equal to half a minim
• Needlework done with a hooked needle
• Do some needlework
• Needlecraft, note, lacking the more elevated 'ton'
• Needlework of note, first time out