October
2, 2004 -- Disgusted with knitting.I
don't want to start a whole crochet vs. knitting thing but I really do not understand
why knitting seems to be so much more popular than crochet. That's probably the
grumpy knitter in me coming out. I
just don't care for it because drop a stitch
and the potential for the whole thing going to pot as the stitch unravels itself
downwards sends me into despair. You also are kind of limited by the size of your
needle most of the time for width unless you are really determined and are well-supplied
with mega stitch holders. If
you drop a stitch in crochet, it's not a big deal you -- it unravels across
rather than down. The recovery isn't so bad. There's only one hook to keep
track of and you have no limit on how wide you want a thing to be. To fix
unravels in knitting you have to get a crochet hook so why not crochet to begin
with? I
had to dig 2 sets of knitting needles out of the couch earlier when I was cleaning
up my craft supplies. I do my yarny things on the couch and I tend to loose things in the
crevices. Looking at them pissed me off. If I knew where the receipts were I would
go trade them for a Cro-hook instead! Grrr! I
know how, and I'm glad Mom taught me the basics. I just don't get why she likes
it better than crochet because I'm the opposite. It's not even a choice -- crochet,
all the way! She's always so surprised that I think crochet is easier because
she thinks it is harder. I
remember the green variagated scarf I knitted when I was 9-ish and how it changed
from all knit to one 2 inch thick purl band smack in the middle because I had
just figured it out and then it changed back to knit for the rest of the scarf
because it was easier to hold. It was the only knitted thing I ever completed.
I don't even know why I made a scarf. I lived in Panama where it NEVER gets cold!
I
left it alone until a short-lived foray into trying knitting out again in college
9 or 10 years later. I knitted a sweater back all the way up to West Virginia
when Paul and I were dating and he wanted me to come meet his immediate and extended
family. He and his sister took turns driving and sitting in back. His mother refused
to leave the other front seat becauise she said it was her car and she was the
mom so she got to sit in front without driving.
His nephew and I were pretty much camped out in the back. The drive was
hours long and I had wanted something to entertain me in the backseat so at the
time I thought knitting something would be fun. Agreeably time consuming, but
not easy. On the drive back I unravelled it all and re-rolled it into balls, convinced
that knitting was just not my friend. Fast
forward another decade. I found this baby jacket to crochet which called for kniting
the ribbing on the bottom first and finishing hte rest in crochet. Enough time
had gone by to where I thought maybe I was ready to try to make friends with knitting
again. I had to go out and get knitting
needles because I no longer had any. It took me a bit to remember how to do it,
but I got the ribbing done... eventually.... many tries later. So many I lost
interest in the patter because I couldn't bear to do it again for the front and
the sleeves. Ugh. Karen
used to have a toy round knitting loom -- a ring with the pegs so you could created
knit textures without actually having to use any needles. Wendy
was looking for one for a gift made me remember those and lately I keep wanting
to revisit that "no-needles" knitting method. That's probably my only
hope in knitting! I
grumble and groan over knitting with needles, but I still admire the work other
people create that way. I was completely gobsmacked by Minako's Little Stitches
and examples of her mini-knitting. <<
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