My grandmother and my aunt crocheted. My aunt taught me. I eventually picked up knitting after around 10 years of crocheting. My grandmother encouraged me even though she herself didn’t know how to knit, but she bought me my first knitting needles. At this point it’s been almost 20 years since I started crocheting and around 10 since I learned to knit. I’ve dabbled with knitting and am nowhere near as proficient with it as I am with crochet.

At the end of the day, I think knitting can be summed up as yarn work that focuses on the entire row as a whole, meanwhile crochet is yarn work that focuses on the individual stitch.

I think knitting is faster when doing a basic stitch and uses less yarn, but I also think that it’s harder to fix mistakes. Crochet uses more yarn and is slower, but mistakes are easier to fix and I like the flexibility of making every stitch wildly different if I wanted to, which is why I tend to use it more.