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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...