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How long have you been crocheting RG? You are awesome
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Guess I’ve been crocheting for 6 months now
I hate you RG! 😛
Years and I am not even close to being at your skill level.
[adrotate group="5"]Don’t feel bad, KP. I’ve been attempting to crochet for probably 20 years and I’ve still not gotten past the chain stage. 😛 I will learn to at least do a single crochet someday. And I can do a crochet slip stitch seam for knitting, so that’s kinda like crochet. 😉
*Hugs knitting needles* I’ll not forsake you guys for a nasty hook. 😛
I have bought a Tunisian crochet kit. I’m hoping the hybrid will be a bridge between my knitting and attempted crochet. I haven’t opened it yet. Still working on other projects right now. After I’m done with one of them, I’ll crack it open and stalk YouTube for videos.
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.
Which is easier, crochet or knitting?
I say crochet; Jo says knitting.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"What’s the range of things you can make when you get good? Are you limited on crochet or can you make anything like knitting?
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Keeper of FelixWhich is easier, crochet or knitting?
I say crochet; Jo says knitting.
*Shakes head in agreement* Yep, we disagree as to which is easier.
My mom did both and said one wasn’t harder than the other. Knitting takes longer, but while crochet is faster it also takes more yarn. I find crochet very difficult, but a lot of people have the same reaction to knitting. I like knitting because there are really only two stitches, knit and purl, whilst crochet has three thousand stitches to learn. 😛
I also knit left-handed, which is very unusual for a knitter. There is a false argument that because it’s a two handed activity it shouldn’t matter, but I am very left dominant and there is definitely a dominant hand in knitting. Don’t let anyone fool you otherwise. I do occasionally have to adjust my patterns, but that is a rarity. I just follow the pattern and it comes out a mirror image of what a righty would produce. That said, I can knit right-handed. I don’t enjoy it and rarely do it, but I am able to. For my fellow knitters (because this won’t make sense to anyone else) I knit Left-handed (Mirror) English or Right-handed Continental.
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.
What’s the range of things you can make when you get good? Are you limited on crochet or can you make anything like knitting?
I can make pretty much anything, I guess. I think it’s easier to make blankets and little stuffed animals in crochet. Also a lot fast. I can make a blanket in about two weeks. It’s harder to crochet actual clothing, like sweaters
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Blankets are much faster to crochet than knit. They’re also much warmer. What takes RG two weeks would take me two months…if I worked all the time on it.
I do see much more patterns for knitted clothing than crocheted, but crocheted lace can be beautiful. And some knitting patterns have crocheted accents to them so it’s not unusual for a knitter to also crochet.
I started a lace scarf. I shouldn’t have since I need to finish the blanket I’m doing, but I couldn’t resist.
Keeper of Rumplestiltskin's and Neal's spears and war paint and crystal ball.
Which is easier, crochet or knitting?
I’ve heard that crochet is more likely to cause repetitive strain injury, but I’m not a crocheter, so I don’t know if that’s true. I’ve had a bit of pain from a few over-long knitting sessions, but nothing that’s caused a permanent problem.
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Gaultheria, if you need sock blockers there’s good instructions on how to make them online out of plastic placemats. I’m planning on making a few myself.
Thanks for the tip about placemats. Yeah, I think it’s time for me to make some blockers.
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