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Jan. 3rd, 2011 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreToday, I bought some knitting needles and cotton yarn and have been knitting a washcloth. Because that's an easy project that's small and useful.
Things about knitting:
- The click-slide-scrape sound that knitting needles make is really quite pleasing
- Chaining = much easier than casting on
- Knitting is really unforgiving. If I realize that I screwed up a stitch a row back when I crochet, I say "Oh, frell", take my hook out of the fabric and pull the yarn away till I get back to the offending stitch. With knitting, I essentially have to knit backwards to fix things. So unless it's really egregiously wrong or only a few stitches back, the answer is to say "Frell that" and move on.
- Manuevering two implements instead of one is occasionally very awkward
- The fabric produced by knitting is very pleasant
- However, so, the thing with crochet is that if I get bored with doing one kind of stitch, I probably get to do another one some time soon. Not always, but most of the time. Are there really only two stitches in knitting? Seriously?
I can't wait till I'm good enough to make something more interesting that washcloths.
Things about knitting:
- The click-slide-scrape sound that knitting needles make is really quite pleasing
- Chaining = much easier than casting on
- Knitting is really unforgiving. If I realize that I screwed up a stitch a row back when I crochet, I say "Oh, frell", take my hook out of the fabric and pull the yarn away till I get back to the offending stitch. With knitting, I essentially have to knit backwards to fix things. So unless it's really egregiously wrong or only a few stitches back, the answer is to say "Frell that" and move on.
- Manuevering two implements instead of one is occasionally very awkward
- The fabric produced by knitting is very pleasant
- However, so, the thing with crochet is that if I get bored with doing one kind of stitch, I probably get to do another one some time soon. Not always, but most of the time. Are there really only two stitches in knitting? Seriously?
I can't wait till I'm good enough to make something more interesting that washcloths.
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Date: 2011-01-04 04:03 am (UTC)Yes and no.
In general a lot of things are built off of knitting and purling, though the texture of the fabric varies a lot with how they are combined. And there are methods of increase that just wrap the yarn around the needle, and methods of both stitches that have you twist the stitch, and ways to decrease that involve multiple stitches, and then there's cabling which is doing the stitches out of order...
(But yes, you will essentially always be doing a thing which is a knit or else a thing which is a purl. There are combinations in which this is Not Boring At All, but I would not suggest doing those as your second project *g*)
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Date: 2011-01-04 02:15 pm (UTC)I have remained underwhelmed by knitting (for me personally) - i think folks can create slightly more amazing things (cabling!) with knitting, but for me it just takes too damn long, and you're right, is fairly unforgiving. Crochet i can totally just "figure something out" and make it go reasonably well. And i'm also a bit of a crochet speed demon and can bang out the projects all quickly. ~grin~ i'm also one hook of coordinated, not so much 2 needles of coordination.
I continue to be impressed with folks that can knit. period. even if it's a washcloth ;)
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Date: 2011-01-06 04:06 pm (UTC)I love the click-slide-scrape sound of knitting; it's my personal happy place.
I have never tried fixing mistakes in crochet, but it does sound like it would be much simpler than knitting! However, there are a few techniques to make it easier to fix a mistake, that won't require you to rip out entire rows -- the "Fixing Mistakes" section of Knitting Tips of knittinghelp.com is a good place to start *g*