Their ability to make knitting seem like cloth and vice versa was underscored this season by the fact that geometric and diamond patterns were added to the offering.
They make knit fabrics, exhaust manifolds, cable anchors and milk coolers for dairy farms, respectively.
Though Shark Tank raised their profile, the Purlettes aren't the only retirement community residents to make knitting sessions a regular part of their routine.
Alternatively, you can make knit or crochet flowers (do an online search for free patterns), and attach them either by sewing them on or sewing them to pin backs and pinning them on your headbands.
A former Olympic athlete, he started designing by making knitted tracksuits for the Olympic Games in 1948.
H&M said it had audited the factory, which specialised in making knitted garments, as recently as October and found no "serious" fire safety problems.
He once made knitted sable pants for Mr. Rucci (the collector Iris Apfel owns them), and he did the camouflage furs for Michael Kors's last show.
Besides turbans, he makes knitted hats, one of which was being slouchily sported by a salesman named Willis, giving him the general mien of a Brown religious studies major back from junior year at a luxury kibbutz.
Mum always had a bit of crochet on the go, especially after her arthritis made knitting difficult.
"The New Old World: Antilles -- Living Beyond the Myth," which includes photographs by Marisol Villanueva depicting these people and traditions like canoe making, knitting and weaving as well as oral histories continues through the spring.
How could a movie adequately capture the particular language of this moment, when a mother notices that her son is "making knitting motions over his chest, the way people did as they were dying"?
