Pier Shopping Centre marketing manager Ellen Taiapa said children needed variety in their leisure activities, particularly in the digital age. Margaret Delaney helps Charlise Walker(6) free knitting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. I felt the stranger’s gaze from across the small aisle in the surgical ...