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Crochenit? Crochet on a roll?

Dear readers, I need your experiences once again.

I have some designs I'd like to work on, but I'm a crocheter and I don't believe many of the stitches I know will be adequate for the job. I'm curious about crochenit and wonder if any of you have tried it. Is the resulting fabric "lumpy" like crochet, or smooth like knit? How dense is it usually, and can you conceivably loosen the material up by changing needle size?

Also, I'm curious about the "crochet on a roll" technique. I can easily see doing this as a way to add embellishments to pieces I crochet and to pieces my mother knits. I can't find too much online about this technique and before I dump money into a book I'd like to know if there is a real difference between this and, say, tatting or regular crochet. I'm not going ot spend money getting set up only to discover that I'm making a glorified in-the-round potholder or something. :)

Advise me! I know I'm hopeless. I count on you to set me straight.

--Threnody

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Threnody
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I think that on the whole crochenit is more "lumpy" in that it's kind of double sided, but you might find some of the Tunisian crochet stitches are smoother, Tunisian knit stitch for instance. If Tunisian crochet is done on the same size needle that you would knit/crochet your yarn with it can be quite stiff and unyielding if you use a larger hook (as in Easy Tunisian) you can produce a nice soft fabric. It's not reversible though. Have a look at some of these websites For Tunisian crochet

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crochet on a roll or bullion stitch (same thing)
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that helps Love Christine

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Christine in Kent, Garden of

Hi Threnody,

Go to

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as they have crochetenit and I think crochet on a roll on their website. I know I've seen the crochetenit in their catalog.

Hugs,

Nora

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norabalcer

Hallo Threnody , welcome . I just crocheted my son a vest in what looks like it is Ribbing , but it isn`t !!! Is it bulky ,, it is a bit , but i think this is due to my using 2 threads together [ and a crochet needle 7mm]. mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

I've never actually completed a crochenit project, but I have enough of one done to tell about it. It's double sided, like in my case, one side is white and one side is pink (you can see both colors on both sides, but one is predominantly one color, etc). It's not lumpy exactly like crochet, but more "flat lumpy". It's not "flat flat" like knit. If you buy a book with crochenit projects in it, it will give you instructions. Basically you chain like normal and then when you go to do sc across, you just pull up loops in each chain, not finishing each stitch. Then you join the contrasting color on to the opposite end (the end away from the free end of the first yarn) and use that color to finish off each stitch. Then you pull up one loop usin gthe second color and repeat. Clear as mud!

~Kristen

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Kristen

I made my husband a scarf in a "crochet rib". It alternated double crochets around the back post and around the front post.

This scarf is a bit bulky also, but I made it a bit narrow to compensate. It's very warm!

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B Vaugha

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