Just about anyone can learn how to knit, including men. Knitting is a life-long hobby that keeps your hands busy, possibly distracting you from eating and smoking. It also provides you with a sense of ...

My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter. Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle. But within two Mondays in ...

Both books scale up skill sets so that users start with small wins, and eventually graduate to more complex projects, like a set of two-tone house slippers. There are lots of options in each book: ...

Knitting machines speed up the knitting process significantly, so they’re great for when you’re pressed for time. They’re also ideal for people who can’t knit by hand for any reason. However, before ...

From ‘extreme’ knitters and Insta-knit groups to knitting circles that are hotbeds of activism, Cassidy George explores how a traditional craft became fashion-forward and radical. Of all of the ...

A great debate has ruffled the feathers of knitters this week: do penguins really need our jumpers? I’m not completely sure, but finishing the project has lifted my spirits I had only just cast off ...