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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Philadelphia – Ellen Rubin is a scientist. For years, she worked as an immunologist on impressive health-related projects — like analyzing adverse drugs reactions and conducting research on pulmonary ...
Getting a group of a half-dozen women together to learn to knit and crochet has turned into 20 years of camaraderie, friendship, productivity and thousands of handmade items donated to charity. On Jan ...
Meredith Wachter, a published and professional knitter, is currently teaching beginning knitting lessons at Just Between Friends in Fremont. The class is comprised of five hour-long lessons. All skill ...
Now that it finally feels like winter’s here, what better time to learn to make your own, warm and cozy woolens? Stitching Salon, part of the city’s annual Winter Delights initiative, is a two-month ...