You’d be surprised by how much you can learn about life from pushing a bunch of yarn around with two sticks. When I first started knitting, the biggest lesson was that patience is a virtue, and while ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. It’s been nearly 20 years since I plained, purled, unpicked, sulked and finally shoved yet another ...

Knitting uses two needles and many techniques, offering lots of design options but requiring more tools and practice.

Everyone has a story about how they learned to knit. Every January, I think about mine. The needles were green; the yarn was blue. That much I remember. It was November 1981, I was 10 years old, and ...

The other day someone in the office was talking about knitting, which got me to remembering the slippers I used to knit and thinking that I wished I had a few pairs of them now that the frost is on ...

Dori Mefford of Plymouth Township heard from people who’d grown up knitting, “Oh, I forgot how to cast on.” She’s now giving lessons 1-2 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month at the Friendship Station ...

It was last taught in the classroom when throwaway fashion was unimaginable and people had to make do and mend. But knitting, sewing and embroidery are making a comeback in design and technology ...