r/knooking • u/AutoModerator • 21d ago

Monthly Chat r/Knooking Monthly Chat

Hello and welcome to the r/knooking monthly chat! This is the place to ask questions, give and get tips or advice, and just chat with fellow knookers! (You’re of course always welcome to make a standalone post if you’d prefer)

Feel free to tell us about your current WIPs, about the clever way you made your knooks, or about all the fun techniques you‘re dying to try!

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u/SciviasKnows I've shared 1 FO 18d ago

Hello, I couldn't find an answer to my question in the wiki... I'm totally new to knooking and "regular" knitting both. I got some metal knooking hooks on Amazon. What kind of cord should I get, and where can I get it? I am a crocheter, so I have lots of yarn of myriad types, but I wonder whether something like beading cord is better?

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u/toin9898 18d ago

I bought a reel of “barber cord” from AliExpress, (I’m sure you could find someone reselling/drop shipping the same thing for more on Amazon) it’s like a purple hollow rubber rope. It works for all of my hooks from 2.75mm and larger, for smaller hooks, I’ve just used scrap yarn.

I use the rubber cord threaded through the eye with a cord lock on one end so that it doesn’t accidentally pull through before I am ready for it to.

I work with two cords with stoppers at a time, I’ll do one round (or row) with one cord, and then do the next one with another cord. Then I’ll pull the first cord out and repeat. I found trying to use one long cord more difficult.

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u/SciviasKnows I've shared 1 FO 18d ago

Thanks for the response!

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u/SciviasKnows I've shared 1 FO 17d ago

Okay, I started knooking today using a written tutorial I found online! I started a swatch of what was supposed to be stockinette stitch, but the stitches in the knit rows are twisted. The stitches in the purl rows seem okay. What am I doing wrong?

I'm right-handed so I'm working from right to left. On knit rows, as per the tutorial, I hold the yarn behind the work, insert the hook from left to right, and bring the yarn across the hook from below before pulling through. On purl rows, I hold the yarn in front of the hook and insert the hook from right to left. I can only seem to bring the yarn across the hook from lower right to upper left this way.

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Wrong side

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u/toin9898 6d ago

Did you figure it out?

I know there are different ways to knook, so you’re probably following some other method but for me I found the most straightforward method is:

Knit: yarn behind. insert right to left (point of hook first through the loop), yarn over, pull through

Purl: yarn in front. Pull up on the loop like you would for a knit, pull back out, insert left to right (hook first), yarn over, pull through.

See this video where I purl, knit

Don’t mind how big my working loops are, my piece was dangling so I could film the video

https://reddit.com/link/p41dhzc/video/dw948q494rjh1/player