The pattern calls for knit, purl, and slip stitches along with yarn overs, knit 2 togethers, and stitches passed over. It is ...

I am just not sure I like the variegated pattern for lace. I knit a scarf in variegated yarn years ago and didn't like it because it was hard to see the lace work. I have always done lace in one ...

The yarn in my fingers connected me to the past, beyond this strange and terrible year, and to the family members far away. By Perri Klass, M.D. If you Google the two words “knitting” and ...

OBERLIN, Ohio — Lisa Whitfield knew her yarn shop would have yarn and needles and pattern books. But more importantly, it would have respect for everyone, regardless of race or sexual orientation.

Hansen's artisanal, DIY sourcing of yarns and dyes delivers a palette that looks, oddly, like a craft store catalog of exuberant synthetics: hot pink, acid yellow, cherry red, variegated purple ...

Yarn on its own isn’t very elastic. But when knitted, the yarn gives rise to fabric that can stretch by more than twice its length while the yarn itself barely stretches.

The women of the Knit and Chat group that meets weekly can turn a ball of yarn into just about anything – a hat, a scarf, a blanket, slippers, a bed jacket – but they don’t keep any of it.

She studied knitting books and taught herself complicated methods like Fair Isle, a technique originating from a small island north of Scotland that uses two different colors in the same row to create ...