If you know how to knit and crochet...

I hve been crocheting for 40 years and I am the same way. I see a pattern in knit that I think I'd like to do . I did knit a sweater for my daughter and she has never let me live it down. It had a few big holes in it. She wouldn't wear it. Since then I tell her I have found a pattern for her and it is knit. Immediately she said No thank you MOM! LOL I cannot get the hang of picking up a missed stitch. I am going to get the hang of it. It is good to get a discussion from you, bonbon.

I learned to crochet about 40 years ago, too, and have tried repeatedly in the last ten years or so to learn to knit. Without much success until recently. I find knitting to be a lot slower than crochet; the stitches just don't take up as much room per row. Knitting seems to be much more versatile, though. I can do plain knitting now but lace is beyond me. What helped me the most was learning how to knit in the continental style; the method of holding the yarn is more like crochet!

I do both but I prefer knitting. Crochet hurts my wrist after a while and you don't see results as quickly as you do with knit. Crochet has so many different stitches to remember and knit only has two. I still like crochet. There are patterns in crochet that you can not get with knit but I still prefer knit. Knit took me far less time to learn too. I bought a book called "10...20...30 minutes to knit" at Walmart for 7.00 and I was knitting a baby blanket before the weekend was over. I really enjoy knitting.

I don't think one was easier than the other to learn. Picking up a dropped stitch in knitting is very similar to a single crochet stitch. The two are very similar, it just is a bit trciky to get used to different techniques.

I have been crocheting for a long time, I never learned to knit. My Grandmother taught me to crochet but she did not like to knit. I learned to loom knit about a year a go and I love it. It is easy and fast.

I suspect that you will do as I did. I learned crochet first, a long time ago. But, as you said, I kept finding patterns that I wanted to try, knitted. So, I bought a how-to book and taught myself to knit. I did eventually get the knack, but my stitches aren't quite as even (drives me nuts) as my crocheted stitches. Knitting IS better for creating images. I designed then knitted a blanket for my daughter. It had a pegasus in the middle. Some would say that switching the yarn to the other hand is more difficult. Perhaps. I'm somewhat ambidextrous, so that didn't bother me. What DID bother me was not having a hook. You use the tip of the needle instead. That's where stitches get dropped. From what I have seen, which you prefer often depends on which you started with. Knitters will swear by knitting. Same for crocheters. We can use both, but we are most comfortable with the one we learned first. Someday, maybe, I'll try tatting. My mother-in-law says you have to have a LOT of patience for that one.