MORE CROCHET STITCHES WITH A KNOOK.....THIS ISN'T CROCHETING, I AM SLIDING THE STITCHES ONTO THE RIBBON AFTER EACH ROW.

 I'm calling this one a pillar stitch...not blocked. when blocked you will be able to see the four pillars

I can't get my typing in the right spot. the second two are linked double crochets and the last one is a bauble stitch

Knook Crunch Stitch

Here's my version of a Knooked Crunch Stitch
1. do a base of an even number of stitches
2. I knit about 3 or for rows on this sample prior to doing my stitch.
3. Put hook through the first two stitches of row below, chain 2 in the second stitch, put loop in next two stitches and chain 2 in the second stitch....do all the way across and just keep repeating this row.

Here are the pics:

Knooking: So much MORE than knitting with a crochet hook!

I got bored with basic knooking pretty quickly. Then realized it is could be so much more than just another form of knitting....tried an internet search and search on Ravelry and only found a set of Japanese books with a few stitch ideas. Soooo.....here are some of the stitch patterns I came up with this morning.....

I did not block the finished product and hope blocking will help some of the wonkiness and poor tension...I never was very good at knitting; which may be part of the problem with the uneveness of design...I did the long chain one 3 times and finally got it tightened up a bit. Fellow crocheters, please note you may have to hold the stitches firmly in your left hand (if right handed) and give a bit of a tug to make sure stitches are nice and snug against previous stitch.  Also, I used "kitchen" type cotton for the tail, I found the dragginess of it helped prevent the stitches from sliding down when held on the tail.

Here is my short chain row stitch: I used the size H knook and Loops and Threads Impeccable in Rose color

SHORT CHAIN ROW

Make a base chain of 21
Row 1: pull up loops for 21 loops on the hook
Row 2: Knook knit across the row
Row 3: Chain 3 into each knit stitch of row below.  To do this, insert hook into stitch, yarn over and pull the yarn through just like for the knit stitch. Now do it 2 more times: you just chained 3.
Row 4: Knook knit stitch across
Row 5: repeat row 3
Row 6: repeat row 4
Just keep repeating rows 3 and 4 to desired length and then bind off, I bound off with a single crochet stitch: pull yarn through first stitch of row below and chain one, insert in next stitch pull yarn through and then yarn over and chain one, then yarn over and pull through both loops. Insert in next stitch, pull yarn through, yarn over and chain one, yarn over pull through both stitches on hook, etc.

LONG CHAIN ROW

 Base row chain 16 (you need an even number of stitches for this pattern)

Row 1: pull up loops for 16 loops on hook

Row 2: 6 chain into each loop of row 1 (see previous pattern instructions for chaining into the loop)

Row 3: Insert hook into the 1st two loops of the stitches in previous row and pull through as for a knit stitch. Now Insert the hook into just the second stitch and pull through another loop. Think of it as crocheting or knitting 2 together and then going back and increasing in the same stitch. I know this sounds confusing. Perhaps someone who has experience writing insttructions who can figure out what I did can explain it better.

So just do this all the way across, insert hook into two stitches, yarn over and pull through a loop, then insert hook again into the second of those two stitches and pull up another loop. Do this all the way across and make sure you still have16 stitches before pulling out your tail.

Row 4: Do a Knook Knit stitch row

Row 5: repeat row 2

Row 6: repeat row 3

As above just keep repeating rows 3 and 4 to desired length and then bind off. I used the above SC bind off.

 Here are some Knooked Lace Ideas:
The fabric is a bit too lose, I used size 3 Aunt Lydia's crochet cotton and the size g Knook. I'm pretty sure correct yarn to knook size as well as good blocking would make these look quite nice.

The top one is  double crochet rows keeping the last loop of the double crochet on the hook throughout.

the bottome one is a crocheted (or shoud I say knooked) V stitch going through two stitches of row below and double crocheting into those two stitches twice. To double crochet with the knook you only draw the yarn through once and hold the last loop onthe hook. This is my understanding of one of the diagrams in one of the Japanese books. I then knit 3 rows in between v's.
Not sure I have any readers on this blog.  If ya'll like my work I'll try to come up with more stitch designs to publish here....Please comment and let folks know about the blog and let me know how to make improvements!

My Second attempt at Knooking: a slouchy beannie out of redheart woodsy

 Found out about Knooking an Ravelry last month and found the kit at Walmart. My first attempt was a dish cloth that came out ok but took 3 hours! Yikes!

Looks like the instructions on how to do it vary quite a bit. I finally figured out the purl stitch today and there were two different You Tube versions so I finally just did the knits and purls the way I learned to knit continental style and seemed to work out.

Anaways, here is the slouchy Beanie I Knooked. This took several hours as well. Mainly cuz I didn't know what I was doing and was playing with the stitches. 

Since I didn't understand the instruction book and was doing this in the car on my way to Wisconsin ....13 hours on the trip there, and started getting bored like I tend to do with knitting, I decided to play with it a bit.

I started out like a basic crocheted hat... then knook knit a few rows.  then I took each knit stitch around and slip into it 6 times to make long stitches. DH just borryied my camera so I'll try to describe in words. as you pull the yarn through for the knit stitch... just keep doing in.. crochet a chain of 6 stitches then insert into the next knit stitch on the tail and make a chain of 6 stitches in each knit stitch....then for the next row go back to regular knitting stitches.  I made about 3 or 4 rows of knitting stitches in between rows of chain stitches. Then finished wiht a crochet rib as I couldn't figure out the purl stitch at the time to do a knooked rib.

Sooooo... Whaddyaall think??????

Yesterday I set up my booth at the Ola Belle Reed Music Festival in Lansing NC...Here are some pics....

It rained really hard for about a half hour and I was just setting up again...so it's a bit of a mess.

Here's a bit of the festival: