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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

International Knit in Public Day was June 14, and to mark the occasion a group of Lethbridge fibre artists staged an event called YQL Fibre Fun on the opening day of the Lethbridge Farmers Market. 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 ...

First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. I felt the stranger’s gaze from across the small aisle in the surgical ...

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 ...

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 ...