Iceland's hand-knit "lopi" sweaters are adored by tourists and worn with pride by locals. But now some local manufacturers have successfully outsourced the labor to China. That has local knitters, who ...

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This is a fun way to try out different techniques in your knitting. The puppet starts with a 1-inch bottom body worked in a single all-over pattern. The legs are worked as for mitten thumbs. The head ...

Wool long has been a critical element of military apparel. Wool is relatively plentiful. It keeps a body warm. If it catches fire, it burns slowly. April Gammache and her daughter, Gwendolynn Phillips ...

Knitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre stage on ...

Australian farmers produce some the world's finest Merino wool, but almost all of it leaves the country soon after it's been shorn off the sheep's back. There's a been huge contraction in wool ...

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 ...