"knit up" is a correct and common phrase in written English.
It means to create or mend something by knitting, or to bring together or unite different elements. Example: The old lady spent the winter evenings knitting up a warm sweater for her grandson. Another example: We need to knit up our differences and work together towards a common goal.
However much rhyme may be used to reassure or knit up, it is essentially destabilising.
While Beverley is a place to "knit up the ravell'd sleave of care," Whitby, a drive of some 70 miles to the north, is for purposeful holiday-making.
As she puts it in "Housekeeping," there is a law of completion, requiring that everything "must finally be made comprehensible.... What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?" But will this restoration ever be enough?
And as the mid-August Democratic convention approaches, officials said, the Gore camp has been ever more eager to knit up the raveled Bradley relationship and aggressively court the swing voters who are up for grabs in the Midwest battleground states.
Donna Brazile, though, finds the Obama success knit up in his community organizing skills.
It was great because pretty soon, the sitting administration was knit up in the Obama Doctrine.
The snood knits up quickly on 15mm circular needles in a basket-weave type knit.
That kind of play kept Huskies Coach Jim Calhoun comfortable, and it knitted up perfectly to a national championship to warm fans in a hoops-crazy state.
In Rome on Monday, where the vice president was meeting with Italian officials, a senior administration official said, "The emphasis that the United States wants to make going forward is to make certain that we've got everybody knitted up together in terms of developing a common policy that we can all support".
If it's liquid and it comes in a can, maybe you'd be doing everyone (including yourself) a favor by knitting up some Megaman E-tank koozies.
A bad dream, eh? Ah, well, probably just one of those examples of sleep knitting up our raveled sleeve of care by subconsciously processing roughly remembered anxieties in order to purge them.
