From what I've read, Tom Daley does both knitting and crochet (though it was the knitting that caught the public's attention during the Olympics). I suspect that most people who crochet can also knit. But not me: my mum tried to teach me to knit as a child, but I never got the hang of it (she's right-handed, I'm left-handed, which probably didn't help).Misfit wrote:With Tom Daley so publically knitting between winning Olympic medals, is there a danger it could become cool now too?
Or is there a deep-set rivalry between knitters and crocheters?
Knitting feels too fragile to me - trying to maintain all those stitches on the needles at once, while managing the yarn as well. Crochet feels easier, with just a loop or two on the hook at a time, and if it slips off it's easy to recover without the danger of the whole thing unravelling. I feel a bit like a human Turing machine, moving step by step along the tape (the previous row of work) carrying out one instruction (stitch) at a time. More complex patterns even include loops and branches of one sort or another. Perhaps that's why it appeals to me as a hobby.