Announcement/Warning

[mslulu]

Despite the potential danger to myself and/or others, I have decided to learn to knit.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for peer pressure. (Okay, so I only have two peers I'm aware of who knit but that seems to be enough to nudge.)

Comments

[mslulu.livejournal.com]

Knitting is two wicked long needles and yarn. Crochet is one needle that tends to be shorter and it has a little hook on the end of it.

Other than that, they're quite similar in nature - use the needle(s) to tie the yarn together in funky ways.

[elisandra.livejournal.com]

But in knitting you do queue up a bunch of stitches and then tie them together in a long complicated process, where in crochetting you do each knot one at a time. The outcome of that for me is that I'd rather do each one at a time so that I don't end up missing a stitch and having to backtrack for six years...

I knitted when I was little but everything would invariably have a hole somewhere back that it would take me hours to fix. Or I'd put the project down and it would unravel half of what I did...

So yeah. Crochet is for those of us who aren't delicate OR coordinated, but determined. Plus, you can make afgan squares one at a time and then put them all together when you're ready.

[elabeth.livejournal.com]

I tend to lose and gain stitches when I crochet. Can't crochet a square to save my life. I always think I need just one more stitch there at the end of the row or I think I'm at the end of the row, turn, and oops..don't notice it till I'm like three or four rows up and have to rip it out. So far I haven't dropped a stitch or gained an untended stitch knitting. I find it much easier to keep track of.

[elisandra.livejournal.com]

Yay, my brain is wired backwards!!! :)