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kyubi and I were discussing making fabric using yarn and sticks, including the fact that a lot of people either knit or crochet but don't do both.
Therefore, I want to ask a bunch of questions. Answer as many or as few as you like, or whatever else you feel like talking about.
Do you knit and/or crochet?
If you do both, do you prefer one or the other?
Why?
Is one harder than the other for you?
What was it like learning knitting and/or crochet?
If you do one but not the other, have you tried to learn the other?
Why or why not?
Do you feel like one or the other (or the products thereof) is "cooler"/more hip/more fashionable? Why or why not? (This isn't about what you think rationally but what you feel.)
Have you encountered people who do one looking down on people who do the other? What's that about?
I'll give my answers in a separate post.
kyubi and I were discussing making fabric using yarn and sticks, including the fact that a lot of people either knit or crochet but don't do both.Therefore, I want to ask a bunch of questions. Answer as many or as few as you like, or whatever else you feel like talking about.
Do you knit and/or crochet?
If you do both, do you prefer one or the other?
Why?
Is one harder than the other for you?
What was it like learning knitting and/or crochet?
If you do one but not the other, have you tried to learn the other?
Why or why not?
Do you feel like one or the other (or the products thereof) is "cooler"/more hip/more fashionable? Why or why not? (This isn't about what you think rationally but what you feel.)
Have you encountered people who do one looking down on people who do the other? What's that about?
I'll give my answers in a separate post.
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Date: 18 Feb 2005 06:53 pm (UTC)2) I prefer knitting. I just like the fabric more for most things. I think it's more flattering in a garment. You can't beat crochet for blankets, though.
3) Crochet used to be harder because I had the muscle memory for knitting and hadn't crocheted enough to be fluid. Now I do, knitting is still easier because, well 15 years of experience in a craft versus 6 months.
4) I found knitting very frustrating to learn too. I didn't understand the difference between the 2 stitches and kept knitting when I should have been purling and not understanding why my granny and mum could see this when I couldn't. And I had made several jumpers before I learnt to cast on - my mum used to do it for me. Crochet was frustrating because yarn was my thing and yet I couldn't get the hang of crochet. Then I relaised part of the problem was which hand held the yarn and invented my own way of doing it.
5) n/a
6) I think knitting is cooler. But I'm starting to see more crocheted clothes that aren;t fugly so it may change.
7) Hmmm. I guess at times I've been that person. I never understood why crocheters didn't learn to knit. Now I'm older and more relaxed about these things. But I never expect to crochet as much as I knit