If all this talk about crochet has inspired you to want to learn more about how to add a bit of crochet to a knitting design, check out Interweave Presents The Harmony Guides Crochet Edging & Trims, edited by Kate Haxell. This book contains 150 different crocheted edgings, from basic picots to waves, bobbles, loops, flowers and much more.

These designs might all be simple to attach right to the edge of your knitting, but they're sure to give you plenty of ideas about how you can go about adding crochet to a knitting project -- or fancying up a crochet project if you're already a person who likes to crochet.

If you're not a fan of crochet, looking at a book like this might just inspire you to give it a try, even though some of the designs certainly aren't for beginning crocheters. And if you've already got a mind that likes to play with combining crafts, looking at these edgings might just help you dream up a design you'd never thought of before.

I know I'm not the only knitter out there who has struggled to learn how to crochet. I think that when I finally learned Continental knitting it was easier for me to crochet because I was used to holding the yarn in my left hand.

Other than that, I think it's like learning any skill: it requires patience and working at it and an understanding that with time you'll get better at it. I'm still not great at it, but I'm much more willing to crochet things than I've ever been in my life, which is a start.

All you knitters who also crochet are welcome to share your tips and the ways you incorporate crochet into knitting projects with other readers. I can't wait to see what wise advice you have to offer!

There's a lot of knitting news this week having to do with really big knitting gestures. Some of them are obviously useful, like the 4,000 hats knit in Switzerland, Germany and Austria that are going to help keep children warm in Guatemala.

Less obviously useful is the 6-foot by 6-foot house being knit by a group in Hilmarton, England, but that work of art is to be the highlight of a festival this summer that will benefit a local church. The brink house will feature a garden fence, chicken and eggs and window boxes on the house.

Then there's the pure whimsy -- and mystery -- of the knit trees and sign posts in West Cape May, New Jersey, which have set the shore town abuzz and have authorities asking the "culprits" to reveal themselves, though there's no word that knit graffiti is a crime.

And the Welsh knitter who's whipped up a blanket for a mountain. Ann Jordan of Killay says she's spent 1,500 hours and 12 miles of yarn knitting a 20 foot blanket that will cover a mountain in the Brecon Beacons National Park on Mother's Day (that's this weekend in the UK). The blanket will be carried to Black Mountain along an old coffin route, and Jordan says the project represents the cycle of birth, death and rebirth as well as the artist's relationship with the landscape.

Finally, there's the story of Pat the Super Knitter and Bob, the man who puts up with all her yarn and has learned not to bother her when she's counting. He recently wrote a piece in the Arizona Daily Star about living with the stash, witnessing speedy knitting and the perils of buying more on eBay than you're able to sell. If all our partners could be so tolerant of our habits, the world would be a better place!

One of the easiest ways to add crochet to a knitting project is adding it as a border, as is done on this Seed Stitch Washcloth with Crochet Trim.

This is a cute little project that's super fast. The Seed Stitch cloth is really easy to knit, and it sort of reminiscent of crochet. A contrast-colored crocheted border is added, using single crochet and double crochet stitches. Believe me, if can do it, you can, too.