Does anyone here knit?

[pink]

I've tried to teach myself to crochet, it's just not happening. Someone suggested I try knitting.



Does anyone here knit??? What do you like about it? Would you recommend it?

 

[fair_warning]

I have tried both and found knitting by far the easier.

If you must knit, I recommend scarfs.

 

[Super-Surprise]

KRC knits wits.

 

[LadyVer]

I knit. I love it. Start out with small, simple projects first, after you've mastered the stitches and casting on. The more you do, the easier it gets. It was really frustrating for me to learn, but I kept at it.

 

[Squibbs]

I don't.

Don't plan on starting.

 

[KRCummings]

KRC knits wits.

I sew actually. I don't have the patience to knit. Wits or otherwise.

 

[TonyClifton]

I've tried to teach myself to crochet, it's just not happening. Someone suggested I try knitting.

The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting...

 

[LongDrySpell]

There's a whole knitting thread on the BDSM board.

I'm not kidding.

I don't get the connection between the two. I mean, are they knitting handcuffs or floggers or something?

 

[sweepthefloor]

My Granny used to knit, and knit, and knit. I never learned. I do alright with a crochet hook. I think I want to try it.

 

[phrodeau]

I can knit my brow.

 

[warrior queen]

I can do both, crochet and knitting.
I choose not to knit as I hate it. Have hated it ever since I was taught as a child.
I much prefer Afghan stitch crochet - uses a crochet needle that's as long as a knitting needle. And it's fast.

 

[Ishmael]

Dolf knits, PM her.

Ishmael

 

[warrior queen]

Best way to learn?
Go visit your local old age home.... it'll be filled with elderly ladies knitting away who will be only too happy to have the company and teach you!

 

[CaptainKirk]

^^^ This. Good idea.

My wife knits and crochets. Keeping her hands busy helped her cut down on her smoking.

She's made nice afghans for our kids' homes and throws for the grandkids.

 

[pink]

Thanks everyone.

 

[butters]

good luck with the knitting, pink knitting and crochet i learned as a littl'un, and found crochet to be a lot faster back then, but as an adult i found knitting to be something very relaxing and could do it watching tv or reading, whatever... it was quicker, too, as my hands knew what they were doing (a bit like touch-typing where you don't need to look at your hands too often). haven't knitted for some years now, but get the itch to again as i really did find it therapeutic.

if you're going to try and follow a tricky pattern, though, you have to be more watchful but it's very rewarding seeing stuff develop. as you get even more familiar with the craft, you might find you don't really need printed patterns but can make it up in your head as you go along from experience.

 

[CandiCame]

I am the knittingest motherfucker on the board, I can guarantee you. i win craft fares, I sell at Etsy, etc. I make my own patterns my own fair isle patterns and so on and so forth. Learned how to crochet last year, and that shit is like CRACK- it moves at about 5 times the speed of knitting and takes twice as much yard and therefore twice much money. That shit is like a drug, but it's more sculpting with yarn then drafting fabric. I love knitting, and crochet is an addiction.

Anyway, my point is I can tell you anything you need to know. When I was living in Lex I headed the local stitch and bitch, and there was a spousal abuse shelter right across from the place where we used to meet, so their counselor would bring them over and we used a therapeutic knitting technique as a form of art therapy which I mooched off of and now use. Knitting can be meditative.