Why can’t machines crochet?
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Crochet is, at its core, simply pulling loops through loops. A plain, simple crochet probably _could_ be done by machine, but I’m not aware of one that does so. The part of crochet people like though are designs, which is where crochet really has a leg up on knitting, and it can get complicated fast. Having a machine to do every type of base stitch (half, single, half double, double, triple…) would be hard, but having a machine that can do every stitch in the complicated sequences needed to achieve more complex stitches? It’s not impossible, but would be very difficult.
In crochet you also work into the same stitch multiple times a lot, which I imagine a machine could easily mess up, and if you mess it up once and don’t catch it the whole thing could unravel
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