Is crocheting similar to knitting???

I have a pattern for a beeeuuuutiful skirt in the vogue knitting magazine and it calls for crocheting on the bottom of the skirt, the trim if you will. I have no clue how to crochet as I am just getting the hang of knitting!

Thought I'd inquire to the higher powers :D

[Shandeh]

I love the way that crochet looks, and I know a few of the stitches.

My problem is that crochet causes a lot of pain in my right wrist, because of all the twisting. So, I can't crochet that much.

I stick to just knitting, and if I have a large section of crochet in the pattern, I'll find a crocheting friend to do that part for me.

[Ingrid]

It's different, but not really difficult at all. It's still pulling loops through loops.

[1to1]

I've been knitting a little over a year ( it) and just learned to crochet a couple months ago.

IMO, crocheting is easier to learn while knitting is more relaxing.

Here is a website that might help you learn the stitches you need.

http://www.anniesattic.com/crochet/c...html?type_id=S

I'm glad that I know how to do both now.

Thanks 1to1, I'll check out that website. :D

[KristiMetz]

I learned to knit first, and now I'm attempting to learn to crochet.

The main part I'm having difficulty with is that, instead of the stitches being on a holder (the knitting needles), you just jab the crochet hook into seemingly random places of the work and start making stitches.

I mean, it's not random at all, but when I'm watching someone do it, it looks that way. :D

When you learn to knit, you don't really have to understand where the stitches start and end and all that. But with crochet it seems you do.

[roxtarchic]

i think this is so funny, because i've been wondering about crocheting lately... (& thought i was the only one). i really like a lot of the edging & some of the open work in crochet.

my bf's mom is a crocheter... i asked her to show me... she gave me the rundown of the single, the double, the half something or other & the triple (eww is all i can say about that one) but since i wanted to learn granny squares (yeah notice i said wanted to, past tense)... we kinda went thru a crash course

so basically.....i can make circles... but i havent figured out howta square em yet... i think it's the trying to figure out where to stick the needle thats stumping me...

but it definitely didnt come as naturally to me as the knitting.... but i think if i get stubborn enough about it... i'll get it (eventually, i'm just not feelin stubborn about it, so if anyone wantsta dare me to do it... feel free.. that'll probably work) heheh



i think the most beneficial thing w/learning to crochet after having working knowledge w/knitting... is to have someone show you... cause reading it was like reading hyroglyphics.... wasnt happening

good luck!

[blueeyes28]

I mastered the granny square right before I started knitting now I have no desire to crochet anymore unless I am finishing a knitted piece I want to make a granny square afgan but I can't get in the mood!!!

[dustinac]

A few years ago mom got me started on an afghan but I didn't like it... then last summer picked up knitting and really like it...

however I'm really digging this shrug

compared to this one

so either gonna try the knitted one but change it or have mom show me crochet again

gotta find a different yarn too my last knitting adventure with homespun left the homespun unrecognizable when done... but maybe crocheting with it would be easier

[Curlykat]

I have a pattern for a beeeuuuutiful skirt in the vogue knitting magazine and it calls for crocheting on the bottom of the skirt, the trim if you will. I have no clue how to crochet as I am just getting the hang of knitting!

Thought I'd inquire to the higher powers :D

Hey doglover, are you talking about the skirt that is on the cover of the current Vogue magazine, the pink one? Are you going to make it (or maybe you've already started it???)? Wanna have a KAL?? I am dying to make that skirt - it's so gorgeous!! What yarn are you thinking of?

It calls for Koigu KPM, but I'm thinking of substituting Knitpicks Palette...do you gals think that would be a good substitution??