Difference Between Crochet & Knitting (1) - Experiments

My mom taught me how to crochet when I was 13. Instead of making a pot holder, I made a triangle. But I pressed on, and have been crocheting ever since.

I never really had any desire to learn how to knit, until I found a pattern for Fair Isle slippers which require two strand knitting. Crochet is wonderful, but changing colours is a pain. I finally was taught how to knit when I had some good one on one time with my mother during my recovery in the hospital this past winter.

I have been knitting up a storm for the past few months, and am in love with knitting...although it will never replace crochet in my heart.

EXPERIMENTATION:

Because I have had lots of time on my hands, I have been experimenting. After making a crochet unicorn for my niece, I decided to use that same pattern but convert it to knitting by replacing the 'sc' with 'k1', etc. 

This is what happened

As you can see, the knitted unicorn is almost half the size. I also noticed that the crocheted unicorn holds its shape better. The knitted body parts bulged when stuffed and became more rounded.

Also, I had to crochet chains for the knitted unicorn's hair, because the only option for knitted hair I could find was using the i-cord, which is ridiculously time consuming and stiff compared to a simple crocheted chain.

More talk about the differences between Crochet & Knitting to come :)