My mother had taught me to knit at 15, and I knitted in class throughout college and for a few years thereafter. Then decades passed without my touching a knitting needle. But within two Mondays in ...

Krishma Singal operates the knitting machine she used to create fabric samples for the study. Singal, the first author of the study, recently graduated from Georgia Tech with her Ph.D. Credit: Allison ...

Welcome to Group Project, a series on the many ways young people are building and engaging with community. From queer resistance to finding new hobbies to forging alternate paths, working together is ...

In the basement of the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tenn., on a recent Saturday, you could hear alternating murmurs of excitement and exasperation over the soft clicking of needles. A small ...

Angela Turnage When you wrap a strand of yarn around your finger, when you twist it around a needle and start creating, something happens. It happens in front of your very eyes. It happens to your ...

Once thought to be your grandmother's favorite pasttime, knitting is fast becoming a popular activity among people of all ages, including children. Some as young as 7 are learning to knit at the hands ...

I was having lunch with my good friend Myra the other day. All we could talk about was the upcoming birth of her first grandchild. We were both so thrilled, but the conversation came to a dead halt ...

Here’s a reason embrace your inner guitar hero or secret poetry writing habit: It may be making you better at your day job.Employees who did something creative after work – like knitting, drawing or ...