Knitting may soon move beyond sweaters and scarves. A team of researchers at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon University has built a prototype knitting machine that can create solid, three-dimensional ...

A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction—forward, backward and diagonal—so users can construct a wide variety of shapes and add stiffness ...

I like Faina Goberstein and Simona Merchant-Dest, the authors of "The art of slip-stitch knitting." I have their other book, "The art of seamless knitting," and it's very good. But when Interweave ...

Have you ever wondered why, when told to decrease a stitch at each end of every other row several times, a different type of decrease is used at each end? The reason for this is that most decreases ...

Blogger Schneider’s slim but attractive book encourages knitters to branch out from basic knit and purl stitches with simple yet elegant projects that require the know-how of only one additional ...

Maureen Calvillo has had her hobby for a long time. “My dad, a major in the U.S. Army, taught me to knit at age 9,” she said, drawing some amazed looks from the audience at a recent Brunswick Art ...

After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publishing seven foundational books that sold ...