even more than I already did.

Both are great crafts!

I’m a crocheting, Gen X, California native stepmom here
😀

Cooks, crochets, and kicks ass

I find this way cool!

I remember learning chain stitch first. I was under 10.

she did doilies so it was that string type stuff and teeny hook.
I did not really try to learn until I was 20 and those crocheted vests were The Thing. I failed miserably with that, but did OK with scarves and baby blankets.

With 3 babies due in Jan - March I have lots of crochet hours coming up.

I went for a long time without any projects but the past 3 years I have taken it back up and it has been very relaxing.

Back in the 1970s I had a ton of magazines with patterns. Now I just go to You TUbe and watch demonstration videos. I am addicted to them.

One thing I do miss: when I was crocheting in my 20s I lived in Cambridge MA and there were lots of yarn shops all around the Boston area. I have not had much luck finding yard shops here - choices are Michael's, JoAnne's and Hobby Lobby. I suppose Dallas may have one or two.

Ordering from the internet is the best option.

And in crochet I can only do single crochet. Three kinds of single crochet, but only those. Never learned double crochet. I can make afghans and baby blankets but not much else.

other stitch combinations. For example, to do a double, you yarn over then go through the stitch, you will have 3 loops on the hook. Yarnover pull through 2, yarn over pull through 2.

All of them are based on the basic chain.

Go out to You Tube and watch some of the crochet folks. Creative Grandma is really good for a beginner because she does not go too fast and repeats her verbal descriptions of the things she does.

Another one I like a lot is Bag O Day crochet with Crystal. She is a good instructor too.

and that made me smile - but I didn't know FL Michelle had taken up knitting. 👍

After 2x previous failed attempts at knitting over 2 decades+ I was reinspired to try after meeting some yarnsters that sold skeins, kits, some finished items from the sheep farm they managed at my then nearby Green market.
At around 48 found one of the 4 books I borrowed from the library worked perfectly between text, and drawings. 👍

Crochet seemed to scare/intimidate me so the grid-ness of beginning knitting appealed to me. Then The Crochet Reef Project; an eventually international endevor originating in Australia not that far from The Great Barrier Reef - to highlight their fragility & climate change was so fascinatng - I learned to crochet from on line photos, and text! This was when I was 54.

Drawing, and unique wire jewelry are my 1st and 2nd creative outlets, the yarnwork is my third. 🧶👍