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Why should I bother learning a craft that takes more yarn than its alternative?
Home » Arts & Crafts » Why Crochet? » Why should I bother learning a craft that takes more yarn than its alternative?Crochet, despite its faults, has its strengths, too. Crochet can be shaped, done freestyle, create oddly-shaped motifs; a knitter cannot produce these.
Even if you ultimately want to learn to knit, even if you spend most of your time knitting, learning to crochet will help you. Fixing dropped knit stitches can be done easily with crochet, and one of the cleanest methods of cast-on (that matches the standard cast-off) involves a crochet chain.
Also, despite common belief, crochet and knit are not the only yarn-based crafts. Macramé, a long-time rope craft, has moved into yarns. Croknit, also called crocheknit, a crochet-knit hybrid that uses a single knitting needle with a hook at the end, is gaining popularity. But even this craft uses a crochet chain, and is easier to learn if you can both crochet and knit.
And crochet is still a very good craft for making what it was originally designed for: lace.
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