Crochet vs Knitting

When I was planning inventory for my Heidi's Nest store back in January, I initially planned to make knit hats, scarves and blankets via loom knitting.  I had started loom knitting about 3 years ago and really enjoyed it and it was easy to do, quick, easy to teach others and also easy to keep track of stitches because they didn't fall off the loom.  

Once I started making more things, I thought that I should learn how to knit to make newborn hats and booties.  I taught myself but it seemed to take forever to finish something (even though I did finish some booties) and I was wondering how I was going to finish all the inventory that I had planned to make.

There seemed to be interest growing online in learning to crochet and I had always wanted to learn so I jumped in and taught myself that via youtube videos.  I did crochet some items and some items I knitted but after a few months I have really taken to crochet more.  I think being able to finish things faster helps but it seems that crochet is much more natural to me that knitting.

I think there are pros and cons to each method.  Knitting is better for clothes and form fitting items and certain yarns such as eyelash yarns, fun furs, etc are really, really hard to crochet.  You can't see stitches very well and those yarns seem to do better with knitting and are even easier to loom knit with!  Knitting uses less yarn while crocheting is easier (at least for me) to take out rows that I screwed up and not having to start all over again. 

I am still a beginner with both skills but enjoy learning and expanding my skills.  One thing that I haven't practiced yet is changing colors but I am ready to tackle that soon.  Once I knock out a few sewing things I am going to try and crochet B an ear flap hat for when it gets colder.

Weekly Project List Update Wednesdays

Well it is technically Thursday but I was too tired to post anything last night and went to bed early.  I highlighted in bold any progress or changes to the list and as you can see, there wasn't much.  Part of the
reason was that I spent a lot of time trying to knit a newborn baby hat.  I kept messing up and starting over and still don't have a finished hat but did learn several lessons on what not to do.
One big issue I had was stopping knitting, putting down the needles and start again on the wrong side.  After a while one half of the hat had about 5 more rows than the other half.  I put a stitch marker on the bottom of the needle that is always in my right hand and that seemed to fix the problem. After a lot of trail and error I got frustrated and decided to finish my Blue Knit Blanket and then attempt the newborn hat again. The blanket is now 90% complete as I finished all 3 panels and not need to sew them together.  I would love to complete a project and then tackle some sewing as I haven't seen in a while.

Here is the rest of the project list:

Rank	Project	Status	How Many
1	Blue Knit Blanket	90% Complete	1
2	Green Knit Prayer Shawl	Started	1
3	Swiffer Wet Jet Reusable Pads		6
4	Christmas Quilt	25% Complete	1
5	Crayon Roll for Girls		2
6	Infinity Dress		1
7	Pink Pom Pom Knit Scarf	Started	1
8	Pink Eyelash Knit Scarf	Started	1
9	Crayon Roll for Boys		2
10	Car Roll		2
11	Numbers Bean Bags		1
12	Small Rice Therapy Hot/Cold Bags		3
13	White Newborn Knit Hat and Booties	Started	2
14	Riley Blake Jelly Roll Quilt		1
15	Car Mat Quilt		1
16	Animal Cloth Blocks		2
17	T-shirt Yoga Pants		2
18	Floor Cushions		2
19	Hooty Hoot Owl Quilt		1
20	Medium Rice Therapy Hot/Cold Bags		3
21	Alphabet Bean Bags		1
22	Red Knit Prayer Shawl		1
23	White Knit Baby Blanket		1
24	Pink Knit Baby Blanket		1
25	Girl Animal Print Rag Quilt		1
26	Baseball Knit Hat and Booties		2
27	Football Knit Hat and Booties		2