#learning those stitches can be difficult and your first project will probably be exceedingly wonky

[aethersea]

it's knitting. when you crochet a stitch, the first step is finding where, in the fabric you've made so far, you're supposed to stick your hook. when you knit a stitch, the right-hand needle goes into the first loop on the left-hand needle. you will never have to hunt for the next stitch.

I've been doing both crafts somewhat regularly for the past 15 years. I could knit a whole scarf blindfolded; I can't crochet more than a handful of stitches without looking before I make a mistake, and I'm already proud of that handful.

that said, once you acquire enough skill, you can do anything. the little old ladies at my mom's yarn store could crochet a mile a minute and hardly ever glance down. plus once you get a sense for how crocheted fabric feels under your fingers, you could definitely learn how to find the next stitch by feel. might be annoyingly slow at the corners, but if you enjoyed crochet enough then it might be worth the time.

in both cases, doing complex patterns and fixing mistakes would be more difficult without vision, but again I think knitting would win out, simply because the needle is holding all your previous stitches in place for you. maintains the topography, you know? but at this point I'm speculating.

Question for yarn hobbyists, especially visually impaired ones: between knitting and crochet, which is easier to do by touch? Like, not in the “watching tv rather than looking down at my craftwork” sense, but the “I don’t realistically expect to have vision all my life and want to start an inevitable craft now” sense.