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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Philadelphia – Ellen Rubin is a scientist. For years, she worked as an immunologist on impressive health-related projects — like analyzing adverse drugs reactions and conducting research on pulmonary ...

When Judy Ford was in her 50s, she received a gift certificate for knitting lessons. She thought it would be a good hobby to start, so she went to the classes and learned the basics. But when the ...

Getting a group of a half-dozen women together to learn to knit and crochet has turned into 20 years of camaraderie, friendship, productivity and thousands of handmade items donated to charity. On Jan ...

Half title: Lessons in knitting by Myra. Signatures: [A]⁴ B-E⁸. Contents list (arranged alphabetically) also serves as index. Cardboard cover with rounded edges; front illustrated with silkworms and ...

Now that it finally feels like winter’s here, what better time to learn to make your own, warm and cozy woolens? Stitching Salon, part of the city’s annual Winter Delights initiative, is a two-month ...