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I can't knit worth a darn. I keep losing stitches, and you really have to watch what you're doing.
I love crocheting - if you screw up, you just rip it up and go again. I've done some really wickedly hard patterns that have turned out beautiful. I'm the afghan queen! Anyone gets married, I give them an afghan.
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What's the difference between crochet and knitting?? Crochet is easier???
Michelle
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I crochet but it doesn't go fast enough for me and I just wanted to try something new. I prefer knitting not that I am any good yet!
I started...messed up...went arrgghhh...started....messed up....went argghh....whined to Bev and asked for advice...started and so forth  .
I finally got tired of starting...messing up and decided I was going to do it right, do it well and quit messing up. I can only hope to be near as good as Bev one day! I will try to post a picture of my "project" tomorrow...
I LOVE knitting...there is a crochet kit at Wal-Mart too.
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Thanks for the info! I was just at Walmart and it was sooo busy, I just left. I was feeling crappy, my husband called mee and came home early from work and had already picked up what I needed to get. So, he told me to get my butt out of there and come home, so I did. The lines were all over the place!!! So, I will go back tomorrow when I feel a little better!! Cool! We'll all be knitting buddies!!! You will have to help support me and keep me going because I get frustrated really quickly when I keep messing up, with anything, really!!!
Post your pic when you get a chance!! I'm anxious to see what you got goin'!!!
Michelle 
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Knitting/crochet are great weight loss tools--you cannot put anything in your mouth. It's also a great chainsmoking replacement hobby. Indeed, I am grieving for my executed tyrannical habit. The reign of smoke is over, and now after getting high on clean air, she crochets afgans and knits sweaters for her future hypo-allergenic abyssinian cat.
You're a genius. Knitting. No wonder you're so deep,Bev. All that knitting puts you in touch with the great spirit.
Julia Roberts is so right. I used to make afgans & scarves and well...I'm sure my fingers half remember how.
Kate.
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OH, so you already know how to do it??? I have NEVER even tried....we'll see how it goes.
It is definitely a good way to keep you from smoking!!
Michelle
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I knit and crochet as well, but I'm FAR better at crochet than knitting. Crocheting is easier, faster, and only requires one tool...all the better for me!
Also, being vegan, I don't do the wool thing. I don't mind acrylics either. I just go for color and price.
Heh, I stopped in at Yarn Forward last week and spent $20 I didn't have on three TINY, MINISCULE skeins of lash yarn. It's simply devine but oh-so-hard to work with. If it wasn't so expensive and so pretty, I'd be tempted to not use it at all.
I'm starting to expand a little. Basically, I can only make things that involve squares, rectangles, or simple dec./inc., because it's simple. I can't grasp crocheting in the round. It's my everest, it seems. I get so lost in the stitches! Arg! Someday, I plan on making a blanket out of squares. Each square will be a different color, size, gauge...whatever. I don't care if the edges of the blanket aren't straight. I'm starting it this summer, whee!
I love crochet, it's great to do while watching tv or movies...my only problem is that I have yet to find a way to do it while reading books.
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You guys are so cute together -- just like Bert and Ernie. 
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I don't know if I know how to post two pictures at a time...here goes.
Above is a close up of my yarn...I am the cotton snob!
This is what I have done so far! The yarn is BERNAT-cottontots. I love the way it feels. http://www.bernat.com/product.php?LGC=cottontots
TAH-DAH!
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TAH-DAH!
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WOW! I can't believe how FAST you are! Girl, you whipped this up in NO TIME! Didn't you just get that cotton yarn day before yesterday? Holy Toledo! I'm very impressed.
This is the Bernat you were talking about, eh? Yeah, it's good yarn. Your daughter is gonna LOVE this sweater! But it definitely needs fringe on the ends. Fringe is fun to make; you just tie each strand around the stitches on the first row (but it's better if you crochet the edges first). Hey, why not ask your daughter to help you? It would be great fun for her.
Ya know something? I'll tell ya a little secret. Remember that sweater I knit -- my first project? Well, truth be told, when my first fiance was alive, back in 1960, 3 years before the sweater project, I attempted to knit him a scarf. It really was my very first project. When he died, I threw out the scarf. I hadn't finished it; I only had about this much done, same as you. But my point is: it wasn't NEARLY as good as yours. Not even close. I had dropped stitches and uneven stitches -- oh, it was a mess!
Girlfriend, you ROCK!
Bevvy
P.S.: Remember, next time you start a new skein of yarn, pull the yarn from the INSIDE of the skein, not the outside. That way, the skein doesn't bounce all around as you knit.
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