The phrase "knit from" is correct and usable in written English.
You would use it to denote something being made from a material, as in this example sentence: I made a shawl that I knit from soft, velvet yarn.
Once, long ago, she writes, she herself was "just a plain bad crafter" who did not know knit from purl.
Peacoats looked girlishly original affixed with three-quarter sleeves, one of them finished with sheer knit from elbow to wrist.
Obviously you don't want a heavy cable – go for a fine cotton knit from somewhere like John Smedley.
They even touch a bit on performance, in the form of wall hangings knit from audiotapes of music or events, including the opening of this very exhibition.
He picked up a sheer, sleeveless top knit from silk and cashmere with a burned-out pattern of opaque planks on the front.
For his second New York solo, Mr. DeBellvue offers various underproduced works of Pop Arte Povera and three beautiful sculptures knit from colored pipe cleaners.
The firm has also produced an athletic shoe with an "upper" knitted from a single thread.
To help in that job is a new protective glove knitted from a polyester fiber used for bulletproof vests.
The elaborately decorated items were woven and knitted from hand-spun yarns in the early part of the 20th century.
She went to the grammar school he never did, wearing school jumpers hand-knitted from magazine patterns.
Co-founded with fellow model Katherine Poulton, the company sells sustainable knitwear created by a network of "grannies" knitting from home.
