I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

Ann: Happy birthday! This is for you. I made it.
Betty: You programmed the replicator?
Ann: No, I made it. With my hands. And tools. And yarn. I replicated the yarn.
Betty: But why make it when you can replicate it?
Ann: You can't.
Betty: It's made out of some sort of exotic matter? I thought you replicated the yarn?
Ann: You can replicate the yarn, but you can't replicate the scarf. It's unique. Because I made it.
Betty: You... made it.
Ann: It's an ancient craft called "knitting". You use these tools called "knitting needles". And scissors and a "sewing needle". And of course the yarn.
Betty: But it must have taken you an hour to make!
Ann: Try a hundred hours.
Betty: But... why? Why spend all that time?
Ann: Because I made something unique. Never before in the history of the universe, has this exact scarf existed. Of course, if you scan it and share the data, it won't be unique any more. But at least, right now, it's unique. And I made it. With my own hands.
Betty: ...
Ann: Plus I enjoy the process. It's soothing. Kind of like meditating. Only you actually have something at the end.
Betty: Oh, it's for your mental health?
Ann: Not exactly...

Does anyone know why "knitting" starts with a silent 'k'? (goes and looks up knitting) Ah, it is related to "knot". Middle English. Doesn't explain why the 'k' became silent, though. Oh well.

So, I have decided to forget the needles and explore knitting with two hooks. This is different from "knooking", which uses one hook and a long trailing string or ribbon. Instead, you use two (Tunisian crochet) hooks and position them like knitting needles, only they have hooks on the end. This is apparently quite common in Portuguese/Turkish/Egyptian/Peruvian knitting, though they also have specific techniques which involve looping the working yarn around the back of one's neck, which I don't really feel like trying at this point. Maybe at some other point.

The advantages of two-hook knitting:
1. It is much easier to pull the yarn through the loops with hooks than with needles.
2. One is less likely to drop a stitch, because you don't remove the stitch from one hook until you have the new stitch on the other hook, and also because it is less easy for a stitch to slip off a crochet hook than a knitting needle, because the hook itself tends to get in the way.
3. It is much closer to needle-knitting than one-hook knitting is, which means I should be able to follow directions meant for needle-knitting.

The disadvantages of two-hook knitting:
1. It is harder to put the hook into the required loop than a needle. This is the trade-off. One thing that happens is that instead of the hook going into the loop that I want it to, it also catches the loop below, which can be messy, confusing, and cause an unintended stitch-increase. This may get easier with practice. It may also be easier with pointier hooks, I'm not sure.
2. I haven't yet found any videos on YouTube that show this method of knitting.

So far, it's promising. Done a garter stitch swatch, and have switched over my current one-hook-knitting project to two-hook-knitting. Slow going, but practice should hopefully make somewhat perfect.