Three years ago during a trip home to Buffalo for the Thanksgiving holidays, my mother taught me how to knit. Despite a lifetime of pursuing different interests (she was always in the garden, while I ...

When I picked up knitting needles for the first time about two years ago, I couldn’t have imagined how vital the hobby would become to my well-being. Learning to knit was hard for me, but once I ...

WILLMAR - Hanna Herzog was knitting away using a skein of soft, pastel green yarn. She already had a nice rectangle of knitting hanging from her needles Wednesday afternoon. Not bad for her third ...

"Tip it, tip it, tip it," encourages Jackie Awerman, a knitting therapist and creative crochet coach, as she instructs her weekly Knit-Ins at the Books-A-Million store in Venice. Awerman, a master ...

Has a smooth finish; simply knit and purl alternate rows. Creates shape by pulling the piece together. To create a ribbed effect you just knit and purl alternately along the same row. The fewer ...