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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Men-only knitting classes are being launched in Oxford Street to meet unprecedented demand. The pursuit, generally perceived as being for grannies, has become “manly” following an endorsement from ...