Hello,
I’ve recently been thinking about getting into knitting after trying and failing previously. I have experience crocheting but not that much knowledge in knitting and have been wondering about some useful tips, easy patterns to try, and what some good beginner yarn to start knitting with is? Any help is appreciated!
Hi 
I am on my own learn to knit journey - I learned crochet from a book decades ago but knitting was really mysterious and hard for me until I decided I was going to figure it out.
I watched tons of YouTube videos and tried as many techniques as I possibly could to understand what I was doing.
Now I have a really good grasp of it.
There are many different ways to hold the working yarn - left hand or right hand, wrapping the pinky, not holding the index finger out etc. The names of techniques are usually based on things like that, like English, Western, Continental and Eastern.
And if you wrap the yarn around your needle counterclockwise (like a yarn under in amigurumi) it makes a left leaning stitch with the leading leg in front, whereas if you wrap it clockwise (like a yo in crochet) it makes a right leaning stitch with the leading leg (where you insert the right needle for a regular knit or purl stitch) in the back of the left needle.
Some methods wrap both knits and purls to the left (English, Western) and others to the right (Eastern uncrossed), and some do left leaning knits and right leaning purls (Combination, Russian).
I tried them all 
and it’s been about 8 years since that YouTube summer of conquering knitting. Today, I’m learning Portuguese knitting (also called Turkish, Incan, Morrocan etc) where the yarn is tensioned around my neck, and both knits and purls are wrapped counterclockwise and are left leaning.
My work is looking really neat and even with my knits and purls being the same size, which has been a challenge for me with every other method.
I know that’s a novel 
but maybe it can help you find the way that feels best for you so you can start your knitting journey too! 
I’ve been thinking about continental since I’ve heard it’s easier for crocheters to learn compared to other styles of knitting but I haven’t started the process of figuring out where to start yet.
It is easier to hold the yarn in the left hand if you crochet. Knit stitches are easy to do because of how the yarn is going to the left, but purling takes a little bit of wrangling and it can be harder to keep good tension. If you know what you want to knit, that could help you get going too.
Ok