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There’s nothing warmer than a hand-knit wool sock, but a pair can take anywhere from 10 to 40 hours to knit. A trick I use for old, worn-out pairs saves a lot of time and half the yarn.
To help combat this, Netflix has developed a pair of knitted socks you can make yourself that automatically pause your show when they detect you’ve nodded off.
Several companies made sock-knitting devices more than a century ago like the one Pee Wee saw. One of the most popular was the Gearhart Knitting Machine, which was made from the late 1880s until ...
Apple is examining how to produce iPhone cases from knitted fabric instead of molded silicone, similar to not just the braided Apple Watch band, but also potentially like the long-gone iPod Socks.
Hand-knit socks and knitting in general are trendy. Everybody knits. Knitting has become so popular that people are talking about the knitting boom of the 2000s. Anna Rauhala explains what’s happening ...
The Knitting and Crochet Guild collection is housed in a warehouse in Yorkshire. Most people wouldn't even know it was there, but to the die hard this is a mecca of inspiration and history, and I ...
Mary knitted the socks for Thomas to wear on their wedding day. They married on Nov. 13, 1813, in North Carolina, a week before their 20th birthday. Mary and Thomas were born on the same day in 1793.