Reply To: Mildly annoyed: what people call things

I have some relatives who do them both. Crocheting is very different from knitting, but they are both called knitting because they produce clothing directly from yarn instead of weaving, cutting and sewing. It is acceptable to call crochet knitting because it is really a method of making things out of yarn because it’s easier to spell and pronounce and most men can’t tell the difference with a finished product.