Zen Knitting

As a knitter who is learning to crochet I have to tell you its not an automatic thing but they’re rather similar. The way you hold the yarn in crocheting can carry over to knitting very easily as well as remembering to hold your tension and keep an even tension across your work. Converting the patterns doesn’t usually work though you can mix knitting and crochet together. Knowing how to work with yarns, as in controlling them and handling them as well as knowing one from the other, is learned in one and comes in handy with the other.
Both knitting and crocheting make solid products, depending on how you structure the pattern. They can both also produce lacy delicate items as well, it all depends on the stitch you are using. There are more stitches and terms in knitting but they aren’t hard to remember.
If you want a community that is structured to answer these questions specifically check out http://www.ravelry.com it is a great site specifically for knitters and crocheters.
And if you’re picking up knitting check out http://www.knittinghelp.com. They have videos and forums on every stitch knitting employs. I’ve never had a stitch that they couldn’t explain. It is the holy grail of knitting help as far as I am concerned. Welcome to the woolly world of knitting!

there is a very different technique to holding the needles and while some people can manage both styles of threadcraft others find it impossible to do one after learning the other. I learnt both- my mother taught all her children how to crochet but I was the only one to learn how to knit. After learning to knit I find crochet very difficult, even though technically it is far easier. I don’t crochet anymore- the hooks are far too expensive for me to keep doing what I do to them. actually it is rather comical when I show men why I don’t crochet- I bent a 4mm hook at right angles and those things are really hard to bend!
if you want to learn both make sure you master crochet before you even attempt knitting- if you learn to knit to soon after learning to crochet it can completely ruin your technique for both.
You can’t convert patterns between the two- a knit pattern is worked a complete row at a time whereas crochet is worked each individual stitch at a time.

it really varies from person to person. people like me who can both knit and crochet say that knitting is easier but crochet is faster.
you really cant convert a knitting pattern to a crochet pattern. if you really want to, you will have to experiment with different stitches.
here is what knitting looks likehttp://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_th5ZtKyE…
here is what crochet looks likehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/practical_a…