What is the difference between knitting and crochet?

Knitting is done with at least two needles. Except in special cases, you can only produce flat pieces and tubes (though you can sew them together to create other shapes). All your stitches are on a needle or a holder. In most stitch patterns, knitting produces a fabric with drape and elasticity that is well-suited to garments, particularly for the top half of the human body.knitting is older craft.

Crochet is done with a single hook, and can create three-dimensional pieces, because in most kinds of crochet, you are only working with one stitch at a time. The structure of crochet is such that you can work at several different angles, and work many stitches into a base of a single stitch. It's possible to create garments with crochet, but the fabric it produces is stiffer and less fluid than the fabric you get from knitting. Crochet uses more yarn but its faster.

One Needle Knitting Crocheting

Both knitting and crochet use a single thread or yarn to create a fabric. The same threads or yarns can be used in either needlework method.

Knitting is a much older craft form. It uses a row of "live" stitches on a needle, worked sequentially with a second needle, to produce fabric. Patterns are created by using two stitches: the knit stitch (new stitch comes through the old stitch from the back to the front, producing a bump on the back of the fabric) and the purl stitch (new stitch comes through the old stitch from the front to the back, producing a bump on the front of the fabric). Variations on those two stitches provide for a huge range of patterns. Because knitting usually involves pulling one loop of yarn through a single loop of yarn, knitting is thinner than crochet using the same yarn would be, and it is more flexible. If a stitch is "dropped" off one of the needles, it can unravel through the previously worked fabric, vertically from the needle back to the cast-on (first) row, while the other stitches remain intact.

Crochet involves one live stitch at a time and the stitch is made with a hook. When that stitch is completed, the crocheter goes on to create another complete stitch. In the next row of work, a new stitch is created in the top of a complete stitch from the row below. Crochet stitches are thicker than knit stitches made with the same yarn. Crochet uses a variety of stitches, based on whether the stitch, which starts with a loop of yarn on the hook, adds loops before being inserted into the next worked stitch. Because crochet is thicker, it's less flexible than knit fabric using the same yarn, and it also uses more yarn for the same surface dimensions. If you drop the crochet loop, it will unravel one stitch at a time, horizontally.

Crochet: needlework done with a needle having a small hook at one end for drawing the thread or yarn through intertwined loops. Knitting: the act of forming a fabric by looping a continuous yarn - a tube of fabric can be knitted using 3 or more knitting needles together. A flat piece of fabric is constructed using only two needles.

Knitting and crochet are both fiber crafts.

Crochet uses one hook and the yarn. You can crochet with one strand of yarn or multiple strands.

Knitting is a different story, there is hand knitting, which requires two needles and yarn. Usually a single strand but than again you can use more.

There is loom knitting which is completed on knitting looms and you use multiple strands of yarn. There are wood looms, plastic looms and looms made with cotter pins. To mention a few.

And there is machine knitting, there are many types of knitting machines out today. There are electronic, bulky, standard, punch card and computerizes.

There are no crochet machines.

Yes, there is a difference. In knitting, you use 2 or more needles and in crochet just one. Each has different types of stitches to create interesting textures in your fabric (finished product).

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If you have any other questions you think I may be able to help with you can email me at litertouch@insightbb.com. I have knitted and crocheted for years.

Susan

Knitting and Crochet are two different methods of making something(cloth). When you knit you are using two needles while in crochet you are only using one needle with a hook at the end for reasons due to the fact that they use different methods and strategies in order to make the cloth(es).