Knit vs. Crochet, the world cup final

[firecat]

Last night, my sweetie 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.

Comments

unspoiled answers

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I only knit. I can make a long single strand of crochet, and sometimes do it to unruly blinds-cords, but it doesn't really count unless you can make a hyperbolic plane or something.

When I was fairly young, I tried to learn to crochet, but between short attention span and never having to try hard at most things I gave up pretty easily. I haven't tried since then, partly because I am busy knitting. Learning to knit was pretty easy: an elynne, a book, an afternoon. Everything is lined up and you don't have to exaine for "hole having this characteristic." Easy.

I find knitted garments generally more appealing. There's so much bad old crochet out there that it taints the method for me. (Mostly I object to MY GOD THE COLORS of most old crocheted garments, and I don't much like the blobby texture that I often see on them either.)

No encounters with snooty people, no idea what it might be about.

Re: unspoiled answers

[firecat]

Speaking of crocheted hyperbolic planes - http://www.math.cornell.edu/~dwh/papers/crochet/crochet.html

Re: unspoiled answers

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh, I'd only seen the interview (http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/crocheting.php). Thanks.

Re: unspoiled answers

[jinian.livejournal.com]

(Silly browser. C'est moi!)