Hi! I just learnt how to knit a couple months ago, when I started to attend a meetup group with my mom. I learned to crochet in school, but I always failed to learn knitting, maybe because I'm left handed?. But something clicked now that I'm an adult and I'm hooked. I'm mostly taking on smaller projects like hats and mittens, these are the first I made to give away to a friend for her little girl (3yo) but they ended up being too small lol.
Used free patterns found online, the mittens were done with crochet. I don't know what else to put in here ๐ So feel free to ask if I'm missing some important info here, please.
Edit: Thank you everyone for your kind words, I look forward to keep sharing my projects in such an encouraging and lovely community ๐
I'm gonna get downvoted and possibly driven out as moderator for this but...I also think crochet is way easier to learn than knitting. And I say that as someone who learned knitting first!
With knitting, you've got to learn casting on, knit stitch and casting off to make even the most basic of thing. And then you introduce purling, and now increases are easy enough except there's a bajillion ways to do them and decreases are completely different depending on direction, and omg what is going on.
With crochet you learn how to make a chain, and you have all the skills you're gonna need. Every stitch is a variation on the same few movements, most of them only differ in terms of where you insert your hook and how many yarnovers you do.
Probably a controversial take but I stand by it! ๐
I understand the perspective, but as someone who learned both as a child at her nanaโs elbow, getting started with knitting and making my first scarf worked, my first granny square was an exercise in frustration.
But as an adult with good book resources (and now videos one can repeat endlessly), I can see how much easier it is to shape and form interesting 3D garments and objects in crochet as well as make complex patterns and textures.
Seconding. Learned to knit poorly with my grandmother, and crochet was very hard to figure out. All the videos I watched did not work out because the tutorial makerโs hands kept blocking what I needed to see. Maybe I should look back into crochet again.
Once I figured it out, I found crochet to be great, but I spent a good while on Afghan crochet as a bridge.
Finding a really good instruction book with LOTS of intermediate diagrams for each of the major stitched seemed essential. Then of course there were zillions of samples to be made before anything in a project was possible.