First, for anybody unfamiliar with it, the basic idea is to create knitted fabric with a crochet hook, thus knit-hooking, or knooking. Anybody familiar with both knitting and crochet will know one of the major differences is that knitting keeps a whole bunch of live stitches open the whole time, while crochet keeps just one. Where crochet stitches are dependent on just the stitches at their sides, knit stitches are also dependent on the stitches above and below them. To achieve knitting via crochet, the basic steps are: