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Hi, I’m making knitted cacti and it says to use 4mm needles, but with a 4mm hook it has big gaps in it? I wondered if anyone else has found they need to size down a hook size or if I’m doing something wrong 😂

Hiya! Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've missed knitting like crazy. I haven't been able to do it in almost a year :( My issues are in the left ulnar nerve, from overdoing it and also tensioning the yarn in a way that bit me in the butt (or rather, my pinky finger). Has anyone recovered from anything like knitter's elbow while knooking? Thanks for any insights!

First try with knooking...it took me one hour lol but i will practice more! Purl stitches are my enemies because the stitches are Always tight idk why :( btw i use japanese style because being a crocheter i feel more comfortable!

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I'm a crocheter but i wanted to start knooking because i like how knit stitches look like. So i bought a set of tunisian hooks with cables of differenti sizes. The first time i used cottone yarn with 3.5 hook but when i casted on the loops were too tight that i couln't insert the hook. So i tried using a bigger hook (4.5 or 5) for the cast on and then i switched to the 3.5. the situation was slightly better for the first loops but It became all top tight that i couln't finish the line...i don't what i'm doing wrong Because It never happend with crochet. Is It the yarn? The wrong size of the hook? The wrong set of hooks?

Hi!! Very new to the community and VERY new to knooking, but I tried it and I was able to make this cat hat! Still have to weave in the ends tho lol :D

Hello and welcome to the r/knooking monthly chat! This is the place to ask questions, give and get tips or advice, and just chat with fellow knookers! (You’re of course always welcome to make a standalone post if you’d prefer)

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https://youtu.be/LQjdOvqIaXE?si=w6D-sByPwb9aLlSl

Yall hopfully this video is clear (please go easy on me im shy and dont like to use my voice on camera lol) I realise tik tok wasnt a great place to share my first knooking video, so ill try and post on youtube going forward so it is more accessable :) This post will be followed by two more videos so im very sorry for showing up on your feed 3 times

Is there an alternative for KFB besides M1? I find the tutorial for KFB on the wiki/leisure arts confusing and it always leaves my stitches tight with a weird bump. I know KFB stitches have a bump to some degree but this seems like too much.

I know in traditional knitting there’s a KFSB (knit front, slip back). Is there a way to achieve that with knooking? I’m afraid of just using M1 because it could throw off my stitch count. Thanks!

A few months ago, I fell in love with the “Little Hearts” stitch that I had stumbled upon randomly on a blog. After looking up a tutorial for it (in the round, as I planned on using it for socks), I gave it a try and sadly found it impossible to do in knooking. You have to unwrap stitches and pass them from needle to needle multiple times - which I just couldn’t manage with the stitches sitting on a cord.

Well, today I felt adventurous, and decided to give it another go, before posting on here and lamenting about the fact that not every pattern that can be knit can also be knooked, and possibly looking for help.

But this time SPOILER: I figured it out!! I can now do my hearts stitch! With reasonable effort, and not needing to pull out the cord after each stitch or two! I’m buzzing with excitement.

One particular tutorial has helped me lot, as it showed me that instead of doing a double wrap for a stitch, you can also do a yarn over followed by a normally wrapped stitch, to the exact same effect. This resulted in a (for me) much clearer read of the stitches sitting on the cord, and allowed me to give the second pattern round another try - this time successfully.

As it is a bit of a yarn eater, I’m probably not going to use the stitch for an entire sock, but just for accent rounds every now and then.

And here are the instructions for the knooked Little Hearts stitch in the round, as I figured them out just now: (multiple of 2 stitches, 2 round repeat)

• Round 1: (this is a knit round, the yarn stays behind) *yo, k1*
• Round 2: (this is a purl round, the yarn stays in front) *skip next yo, pass hook through next stitch without twisting it, skip next yo, pass hook through next stitch as if to purl, draw that stitch through one loop on your hook and drop that loop you just passed through off the hook, purl the stitch that’s still on your hook, then purl the stitch that you just dropped*

Keep repeating those 2 rounds.

(I might try a video demo later on, but no promises, as it would require editing/cutting, and I’ve never done that before…)

(Edit: I did the video demo, and even found way around having to cut it! ;) )

I noticed today that u/Tine has uploaded several knooking demos to Youtube recently. Check them out! See https://www.youtube.com/@-Tine-

I recently made the Hugs and Kisses Bag. It's a mix of knooking and crocheting, which was something I hadn't tried before.

Project instructions: http://knooking.blogspot.com/2012/04/hugs-and-kisses-hybrid-bag.html The gist of the project:

The base of this bag is a disk of double crochet (US terms).

The side of the bag is a repeating pattern of 6 rows of knit stitches topped with one row of twisted double crochet stitches. Repeat this pattern until the sides are as tall as you want. I did 3 repeats of the pattern.

Finish the bag with one row of regular double crochet.

I made a crocheted cord using the method shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLE6N-RIvB4

I learned this cord can also be used as a foundation chain for crochet or knooking. It's more stretchy than a simple crocheted chain.

I wove this cord through the bars of the double crochet at the top of the bag to make a drawstring closure. I fastened the cord together with a small tassel.

The skills I learned from this project:

How to knook in rounds. I learned the cord and hook have to be managed a little differently compared with knooking on the flat

How to transition from knit stitches to crochet stitches and vice versa. It's easier than it looks!

How to do a twisted stitch, which is a key concept for making any cable pattern

How to make a crocheted cord using a "long tail" method. Until this project, I'd just used a simple crocheted chain which isn't as nice

Things I'd do differently:

Go to a slightly smaller hook than the recommended size. I'd like the stitches to be a bit tighter for a firmer fabric.

If you want this bag to hold small items, it needs to be lined with fabric.

Top the final row of plain double crochet with a lacy stitch (maybe picot stitch?) to add more visual interest to the top edge of the bag.

I'd tweak the pattern a bit: If you look at the lowest row of crochet stitches on the side of the bag, you'll see a ridge of yarn at the top of these crochet stitches.

The instructions said to knook into the BACK loop of the "V" at the top of the double crochet stitches. (At least that's how I interpreted the instructions.) This is the detail that creates the ridge.

I either wanted a ridge on both the top and bottom of the crocheted row or I wanted no ridges at all. So I knooked into the FRONT loop of the "V" at the top of the double crochet stitches. That top ridge disappeared, and I liked the look a bit better.

Mostly joking. I'm just frustrated that sleeves seem to take more time than creating the entire rest of the cardigan. What part of creation frustrates you? So I don't feel as lonely lol

I found a list of free knooking patterns today that I haven't seen mentioned here in the year or so I've been reading this sub. https://www.needlepointers.com/main/ShowArticles.aspx?NavID=3780 Scroll down to the end of the article for links to the patterns.

One pattern in this list, the Hugs and Kisses Bag, is a mix of knooking and crochet, which I think is intriguing. (link: http://knooking.blogspot.com/2012/04/hugs-and-kisses-hybrid-bag.html )

Hello and welcome to the r/knooking weekly chat! This is the place to ask questions, give and get tips or advice, and just chat with fellow knookers! (You’re of course always welcome to make a standalone post if you’d prefer)

Feel free to tell us about your current WIPs, about the clever way you made your knooks, or about all the fun techniques you‘re dying to try!

Newb here, Western style. I got regular knit/purls down, increases and decreases are hard but doable. Still learning, but it's going well. Trying a swatch for a lace pattern and it requires a k1 or p1 and then a k1(or p1 if it's the back side)bl, this is over a 2yo from the previous row.

I'm doing something wrong because my stitch counts at the end of the row are increased by two, despite the decrease before and after the 2yo. I get doing the k1 or p1 in the first part of the 2yo, it's the bl that's confusing me.

I could never get the hang of knitting with needles, but knooking is going ok. In crochet and Tunisian I could do this and not have extra stitches. I don't know why this isn't clicking for me or how I'm messing it up. I've tried watching some videos of knitting k1bl/p1bl but my brain can't translate that to knooking. My searches on both Google and YouTube haven't turned up any tutorials on knooking k1bl/p1bl, so I don't know if there aren't any or I'm just missing them. It is an insomnia night and I'm a bit loopy at this point, so it's definitely a me problem, but if any of yins have a tip or suggestion I'm all ears

Hello and welcome to the r/knooking weekly chat! This is the place to ask questions, give and get tips or advice, and just chat with fellow knookers! (You’re of course always welcome to make a standalone post if you’d prefer)

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My sister is due in about a month, and I really wanted to make the baby her first hat to wear in the hospital. I’ve been practicing knooking stitches (avid crocheter) because I wanted that authentic knit look and feel. It was a lot of fun! I think I need to work on my tension still, but overall I’m happy with the result. 🧡