Swatching around
I’ve been playing with an idea. This isn’t it exactly, but it’s a sneak peek of something related.
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I'm a knitting designer. I have three basic categories of things that I do.
I publish stitch patterns on the blog. Most of them are what I call secret code patterns: I encode the letters of words as numbers, chart the numbers on grids in various ways, and turn the results into lace knitting, mosaic knitting, other kinds of knitting, and needlework charts. I also publish a variety of other random stitch stitch patterns as they occur to me.
I also have patterns for sale on Payhip. These are mostly patterns for knitted accessories; there is also one crochet/knitting hat pattern
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I have been knitting a top down sweater for a baby, and wonder if (when the sleeve stitches are placed onto waste yarn) where I then have 86 stitches, could i put those stitches onto an
Afghan crochet hook and continue doing the tunisian simple stitch to create a woven look, and could I use the same size hook as knitting needle. I am using a 4mm knitting needle. Just an idea that has been swirling around, and wonder if it would work.
You can, but you will almost certainly need a different size hook. When I’ve combined knitting and Tunisian crochet, I’ve usually needed a larger hook and needed to make swatches to figure out which one.
Something to consider – the crochet fabric will be heavier and thicker than the knitting. I have combined the two in a sweater before, but I used the crochet for the yoke of the sweater (for stability) and knit the sleeves and body. It worked quite well, but I’m not sure that a knit yoke with crochet sleeves would be so successful. On the other hand, a baby sweater shouldn’t be affected as much, so it’s probably worth a try!