Sentence examples for knitting from inspiring English sources

In market stalls beside them, women huddle together whispering to each other and knitting alpaca woollen hats and socks to sell to tourists.

The WI, which this year turns 100 and will see the Queen attend its centenary annual meeting on Thursday, typically conjures the image of older women knitting in village halls, rather than 20-somethings doing self-defence classes and meeting in bars to get tips from financial advisers.

Many women are forced to resort to cheap and unsafe means of abortion such as self-inflicted torture, self-poisoning and inserting sharp objects, like knitting needles, into the vagina.

The app would then function as both journey planner and universal payment platform, knitting everything from driverless cars and nimble little buses to shared bikes and ferries into a single, supple mesh of mobility.

I think people are returning to knitting partly because of the trend setters, and also because of the economy and the environment.

Now it is amazing to see a young generation who want to go back to knitting things themselves.

Kerry Mason, from Letterbox Library (who administer the award) added, "From boys who take up knitting to peace loving forest birds to fighting fascism, this year's shortlist entertained, tickled, provoked and rallied- but in the end, for all of our judges, Scarlet Ibis stood out for wrapping up very 'live', pressing, social concerns within skilled, gripping, storytelling".

Online has been key, because we started with our knitting kits – that was really the DNA of the business.

"Jam, knitting and no brain!" scoffs Carole Holland, a longtime WI member from Sheepscombe, in Gloucestershire, when asked how the organisation is viewed by outsiders.

For women there is more to do with things like knitting groups, but for gentlemen there is nowhere to go".

In the book, Mssrs Acemoglu and Robinson tell the story of a sad gentleman named William Lee. Lee was an English priest who invented a knitting machine in 1589 that promised to make the production of knitted garments dramatically faster and easier.