I know a lot of knitters are multi-crafters, doing knitting as well as crochet or weaving or other yarn (or non-yarn) crafts.
And of course yarn looks different when we use it in different crafts, but I’ve never done a side-by-side comparison before.
Fresh Stitches has a great post all about how variegated yarn looks when you knit with it compared to crochet or weaving. And, as you might expect, the results are quite different.
Some of that has to do with the texture of different stitches, but they also use yarn at different rates that can make a big difference depending on the length of yarn between each color change.
This is a big lesson for me that if I’m not loving the way a yarn looks knit, maybe I should try crochet or another craft instead. You might even get some planned pooling you like that you wouldn’t have seen if you used a different yarn craft.
Have you ever done this switch between knitting and crochet with the same yarn? I’d love to hear about it.
[Photo: Fresh Stitches.]
This was a very interesting post, Sarah. Thank you so much. It never occurred to me that this was even a possibility.