About 30 minutes is all you need. I am a total beginner, so when I found your website, I gained more confidence in believing that I had been right to choose crocheting over knitting! But thanks to this website, you gave me the courage to try again! Love your site! Crochet is so much more relaxing and enjoyable. I can whip up a granny-square dish rag in half an hour, while it takes me about two days to knit one although, granted, the tighter weave of the knit dish rag makes it worth it.
I love how flexible it is! Knitting is kind of hypnotic, and I tend to turn to it when I just want to zone out. It requires a lot less concentration and looking back at the pattern. I took up knitting because I kept seeing such lovely sweater patterns. But a major disadvantage to knitting is how many different needles you need!
At the very least you need a full set of interchangeable circular needles and double pointed needles to be able to make any pattern. So snobby! A lot of older knitters are just plain mean. You walk into a fancy yarn store and ask for recommendations for amigurumi and they look at you like you have three heads. I think these obnoxious comments by knitters illustrate this perfectly. Crocheters tend to be friendlier and more down to earth. Definitely agree — the amount of patterns available for knit sweaters makes it an enticing hobby!
Welcome to the world of crochet! I enjoy crocheting but wish I had persisted with my knitting lessons when I was younger. I gave up because the teacher started us rank beginners on slippers. Stupid me. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Alexandre Pereira Costa July 16, Michelle Shapiro October 10, Keisha Guzik October 14, Cindy November 14, Dawnel Hess November 25, Annette March 21, Heather May 18, Nope, crocheting is the worst.
Josephine R May 27, Doris Summers June 18, Ann Halcomb August 13, Crocheting is the only way to go. One needle. Much easier to fix mistakes. Emily September 17, Emily Krauss October 11, Jeannine Fazande October 17, Eli Rae November 15, Linda Hyatt December 2, Tonda Creel February 8, I make afghans and scarves that get all kinds of compliments, and I kind of wish I paid attention to how I made them… The local hospice likes them, anyway.
Can knitting compare? Mary K Sullivan Greenlee February 14, But this becomes easier with practise. Plus, these textured yarns are far more forgiving.
If you make the odd mistake, nobody will see it — even you! So you need to feel your way along. It can be easier to crochet between stitches instead of into the tops of them. If you are new to crochet, steer clear of unusual yarn types until you are confident with the basics.
Never say never of course. Crochet a few short rows as a test. I made a small Christmas stocking crochet decoration in red wool and added a furry trim by crocheting a few rows of white Sirdar Snowflake chunky teddy yarn on top. Crocheting the first row of a novelty yarn into a standard yarn is easy, and if you only have a few rows to crochet overall, the effect can be well worth the bit of hassle. One last tip: if you are going to crochet with teddy yarn, pick a light shade to save your sanity.
Crochet thread is extra fine cotton yarn used for very fine crochet work like lace doilies. Traditionally, knitting and crochet were quite different crafts. Crochet meant ornate lace work made with fine crochet thread and tiny steel hooks. Modern crochet and knitting have much more in common, with people using the same yarns to crochet and knit similar items. So the term thread crochet is now often used to differentiate traditional fine lace crochet work from regular crochet.
Crochet thread is still widely available. It comes in numbered sizes up to The lower the number the thicker the thread. Size 10 crochet thread is a common weight suitable for making lace bedspreads and tablecloths etc. Despite its name, you can also knit with crochet thread, again usually with around 2mm needles. One of the questions you might ask yourself is whether to learn how to knit or how to crochet, and is there much of a difference between the two?
As a beginner, you can choose either one. The techniques and tools are different from one another, but both of them require practice in order to excel in skill; and to the untrained eye, the end results can appear to be very similar.
Knitting uses a pair of long needles to form the stitches. There are different types of needles: straight, circular , and double-pointed. Needles are categorized by size as determined by the tool's diameter and the type of stitch that you can do with them. For example, larger needles are perfect for making the large loop stitches you want for certain projects like a knit blanket , whereas you would want smaller needles for making baby accessories like socks and beanies.
On straight needles, you can make flat pieces with a back-and-forth stitching movement. Circular needles let you knit in a circular motion, ideal for projects like cowl scarves and hats. As you progress in projects, you will find that having one size of each needle is not necessarily sufficient in knitting.
In knitting, the "V"-shaped stitches of your work hang off the needle and are transferred from one needle to the other, loop by loop. Starting and stopping your knit project in the middle of progress means that stitches could be left on both needles making it slightly unwieldy. And keeping the knit stitches from falling off both needles in transit will require needle stoppers.
It also means, you may be required to offload your work onto stitch holders while another piece gets knit on the same pair of needles. Some techniques can fool the eye. For example, Tunisian crochet is an advanced technique that creates fabrics with the appearance of knitting.
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