Briggs & Little's knitting yarn is a bit scratchy and has a faint whiff of its barnyard origins. But in today's $2.8-billion North American knitting market, both the yarn and the small Canadian ...

The fact that I knit year-round and live in sunny Meanjin/Brisbane often prompts people to look at me sideways. When we think of knitting, we tend to first think of the cosy jumpers, chic balaclavas ...