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 used to think of knitting as something our grandparents did to pass the time in between Bargain Hunt and Countdown, but times are changing... Since social distancing laws were put in place by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Frankly, I'm an utter failure at traditional DIY. I'm so clumsy that my wife is the only person allowed to use a hammer or a drill in our flat. Ours is an unconventional marriage - she wields the ...

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 ...