Changing Knit to Crochet

[Noahsmom]

How do you change a knitting pattern into a crochet pattern? Is there a tutorial somewhere or a chart that would match stitches or anything??? I don't know why I can't ever do anything the easy way, but I have absolutely positively fallen in love with a knitted shawl and I don't knit. I have looked and looked, searched and searched and have found no pattern, free or for sale, which is even similar in crochet. At this point, I was even thinking of just trying to make one similar out of fabric, I'm that desperate to have this shawl.

Bev

[Angeleyz14]

Bev, I don't know of a tutorial or anything online...but I know at my local AC Moore store they have a book titled From knit to crochet or something like that that shows you a swatch of the knitted stitch and a corresponding crochet that could be used...there is also From Needle to Hook which is the same kind of book, but I think the first is better and has more info and stitches. Hope this helps

[misssmaggie]

Maybe this will help...

http://www.planetshoup.com/easy/tips/convert.shtml

[Noahsmom]

Ohh, thank you both, I'll definitely check out that book and the website with the tips is great!

[kkms]

there is a place online somewhere. i know i have seen it, now i just have to find it!

 

ok here is one but it converts crochet to knit, but i would think you could jut reverse the directions

http://www.ehow.com/how_18631_convert-crochet-pattern.html

 

here is another...scroll down a little

http://www.quiltbug.com/how-to.htm

 

and this is just fyi

http://wheatcarr.com/blog-a-mentary/convert-crochet-to-knit-no-not-really.php

 

hope this helps some.

 

i have a knit pattern of a penguin that someone tried to make for me and could not. so i was going to attemt to convert it but i honestly don't think its worth the time after looking at some of the websites.

 

good luck on your endevour

[Susanne]

I bought the book mentioned above, because I am a knitter and a crocheter and I was curious.

 

I have been very dissappointed: instead of telling me how to get look and the feeling I get with knitted things it is all about exchanging special stitches (that I would never ever use in knitting) with even more complicated crocheted ones... I don't think that this book is as good as the title and the description sounds.

 

Can you post a photo of the desired shawl - or a link?

Maybe I have an idea of the stitches when I saw it.