How To Use Knit In A Sentence
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A little wool, a couple of knitting needles and a bit of time and lives can be changed.
The Sun
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But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
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Both were well known in this close-knit community and deepest sympathy is extended to their families.
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So again if you're unfamiliar with this yarn and needle arrangement, start by knitting stripes in full needle rib.
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He loves me and appreciates my finer points - especially the fact that I don't make him dress like me in a black turtleneck and coordinating cable-knit sweater for a holiday portrait.
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It's an extremely robust plant that knits tightly together.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as knitwear, accessories, bags and jewellery in the womenswear department, the store also offers lingerie and sleepwear to suit all mums.
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After the hospital I was planning on going to Lettuce Knit to buy some needles but decided against it, instead made the short walk from St. Mike's to the Flatiron.
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I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of.
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a close-knit family
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First commercialization application just is knitted make sock and parachute.
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Neither Pislar nor Knittel conceded and the two raced the full 2000 metres with Knittel finally getting the better of Pislar.
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She is inspired by traditional woman's handiwork like crocheting and knitting, she says.
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Did you know that the way that you wrap the yarn around the needle can affect the twist and cause the fabric to bias or that continental style knitting can aggravate carpal tunnel syndrome?
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Friends and work colleagues in the close-knit community of Wentworth have already been a huge comfort, he said.
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A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
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The bones had started to knit long before she'd been brought into the hospital.
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Her newer slouchy silhouette offers sporty satin blouson jackets and drawstring pants to mix with sensual hand crochet knits.
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From these three statements they get the military idea of women, children, and God, and the heart of the knitting woman recoils in horror from the cold brutality of it all.
In Times Like These
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They come with wholesome winter references such as alpine leaf designs or chunky cable knits, and should be worn with jeans and heavy shoes or trainers.
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His mother sewed his clothes while he was young and knitted socks giving him a handmade pair for his birthday for many years.
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She was a character actress who specialized in either cantankerous or kindly older women for three decades, simply by knitting or unknitting her eyebrows.
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Why not go retro and get knitting, so you can turn your downtime into a cardigan?
Times, Sunday Times
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This company specialized processing production T-shirt, knitting movement coverall, association uniform, culture T-shirt, leisure series and so on.
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I have a close-knit team of people around me, at the club here we all support each other.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the April issue, I explored the use of basic slip stitch designs for knitting fabrics.
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Fur hat, fur bag, fur garment, fur material, fur coat, fur knitted, knitwear, fur scarf and shawl, feather, feather product.
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Cotton flannel and knit sheets offer you more softness without crispness, which is just what some people want.
HOME COMFORTS
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Betwixt the gracylament of the foote and the cuppe, it was knitte together with a handle of inestimable workemanship, and in lyke manner the foote and the bowle were of an excellent anaglyphie of foliature, monsters and byformed Scyllules, so exquisitely expressed, as could be imbossed, chased, or ingrauen by proportionate circulation.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
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French language (a thing indispensable to the happiness of married life), piano-playing (a thing wherewith to beguile a husband’s leisure moments), and that particular department of housewifery which is comprised in the knitting of purses and other
Dead Souls
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Tonight I was finishing up a hat I had knitted for my niece.
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But when it gets chilly, the island's a fantastic place to stock up on hand-knit Aran sweaters.
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The organisers would appreciate any donations of knitting wool, patterns, knitting needles, crochet hooks or any old material.
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Everyone works in close-knit teams and as a result information flows within the company.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your strength in personal affairs is your ability to build a well-knit, solid relationship that endures and continues to thrive year after year.
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Or pay homage to your nursery school teacher and attach a ghost made of construction paper and a ping-pong paddle to your woodsy cable-knit sweater.
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I'm not much of a fan of thick chunky knitwear, it just makes you look fat and shapeless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where you usually have a nuclear family living together and nobody else, we will often have not just a nuclear family but cousins, aunts, great-aunts, uncles. The extended family lives together, tightly knit.
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Maybe you had better swatch just a little, to be sure the yarn goes with the jabot fabric once it's in knitted form (light is caught differently), before beginning to knit the actual lace.
Jean's Knitting
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It's like trying to hold a lump of jelly with knitting wool.
Times, Sunday Times
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A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
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Her work includes giant pieces you can crawl into and a knitted installation.
The Sun
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They're tiny knitted creatures, with spindly legs and multicoloured bodies, and snapping at their heels is a gnarly-looking wolf in sheep's clothing.
The graffiti knitting epidemic
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You experience a thriving mix of Maori, forestry, arts and crafts, a champion Maori rugby team, Tolaga Bay knitwear, peerless beaches and matchless surf.
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For one thing, it's not knit in bainin, the oiled Irish yarn that is scarcer than hen's teeth to find.
The Knitting Curmudgeon
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She said the tragedy had brought the tight-knit community even closer together.
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The pensioner presented him with a hand-knitted cardigan and booties for his week-old son.
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You can now put those knitting needles down as we have drawn the campaign to a close.
The Sun
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Dilys emerged in something dark green and knitted, which set off her flame frizz of hair a treat.
TICKLED PINK
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He knit his brows in a tight, frown and smiled wryly to himself.
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If a branch grafted into a stock never grows, it is a plain evidence of its not having knit with the stock.
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The main part of the scarf is knitted as a tube of stocking stitch in one colourway.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The asbestos fibres got stuck in the hand-knitted socks and jumpers.
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He knitted his brows in concentration.
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The group were formerly close-knit but are now a bunch of individuals moving in separate directions and facing different problems.
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She has been offered extra security and has been supported by a close-knit team here.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other definition is sheer luxury-gassed yarns, extremely fine gauge tricot, linen and a width of knits woven in patented Benetton new age fabrics.
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As if to affirm this truth, she rapidly knitted five more rows in one minute flat.
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For most of the non-golfing population the game is a ludicrous one played by middle-aged, middle-class men in questionable knitwear.
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Mother is knitting a sweater.
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I'm not much of a fan of thick chunky knitwear, it just makes you look fat and shapeless.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visitors and holidaymakers who suffer from machine knitting withdrawal symptoms are welcome at the meetings!
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Tailored in a 6.7 oz. ringspun cotton, this shirt has a three-button placket, a rib knit collar, a tail back, banded sleeves, side vents, wood tone buttons, and taped neck and shoulders.
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Stock up on key fabrics like cotton, linen, silk and lightweight knits in the summer months, and wool, cashmere and merino knits in the winter.
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This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland
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Also this week, the United States said it would limit imports from China of knit fabrics, brassieres and dressing gowns because sales had been climbing in the U.S. market.
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Thankfully, you no longer have to be a business to get a hold of their superior goods - just this past year, VOFC branched out into the retail hand-knitting yarn world.
Yearn-Worthy Yarns: O-Wool from Vermont Organic Fiber Co
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The asbestos fibres got stuck in the hand-knitted socks and jumpers.
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Capes, big brass buttons, skinny knits belted over print dresses, together with marvellously subtle colour combinations made for one of the most beautiful collections in Milan.
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A practiced knitter might be able to add to these observations.
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Her whole time was spent in making patchwork quilts with knitting-needles that were an arshin [An ell.] long.
Poor Folk
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I was most overwhelmed and went to bed having nightmares about socked feet walking up and down my naked body shouting knit one purl one faster faster…
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She does all the needlework and knitting, which she says is probably the most enjoyable part.
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She looked up at him, confusion knitting her brows.
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That's a new experience for 25-year apparel industry warrior, president of the $10-million men's loungewear, swimwear, and woven and knit shirt manufacturer.
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Double bed is a tightly knit conceptual unit whose component parts cannot easily be separated.
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The season looks at a more chic look with cool cut tailoring, knee length coats and luxurious knitwear.
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I bought this kit last week at Lettuce Knit and I started making it with 6.5mm circular needles.
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Such experiments were carried considerably further by a loosely knit group of younger painters.
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Buck Abbey, a landscape professor at Louisiana State University, who has studied the effects of hurricane-force winds on plants, notes that the interknit canopy of a grove of trees tend to ride out high winds better than lone specimens -- especially if they're native varieties with wide, spreading branches, low centers of gravity, small leaves and deep root systems.
Trees That Stand Up to Storms
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We are a very close-knit family and support each other through any crises.
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The elaborate knit work on cotton and silk sarees from Dacca takes at least 12 days to complete.
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It's not a difficult pattern to knit, but it's not going as fast as I would had imagined.
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There were also heavier fabrics such as tweed and chunky knits.
Times, Sunday Times
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He tells me that it will be a year or 18 months before the bone knits round the metal pin.
Times, Sunday Times
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It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era.
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The town and the country around is employed in the manufacture of stockings, and which was once famous for making the finest, best, and highest-prize knit stocking in England; but that trade now is much decayed by the increase of the knitting-stocking engine or frame, which has destroyed the hand-knitting trade for fine stockings through the whole kingdom, of which I shall speak more in its place.
From London to Land's End
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Scraps of cloth were saved up for quilting - any sort of cotton, corduroy, knit or synthetic fabric was free.
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Ladies have you any unfinished knitting or sewing at home?
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Read more of this story » ... addi knitting said on July 30th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Yearn Worthy Yarn: Tahki Jeans
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Towards Christmas, expect to see knits which have taken the fashion craze for extravagance the whole way - and why not?
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All the women at present were busy knitting woollen garments; some were learners and did their work slowly and painstakingly.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Women are known for quilting, crocheting, and knitting.
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So, okay, he must have left sometime after 1100 hours G.M.T. but before 1145 hours G.M.T., at almost exactly which time I returned to the cabin and brushed as well as I could all the particles of snow still clinging to my wool jacket and gloves and knitted ski cap, sea-green, and my blue jeans and rugged, well-worn work boots.
Self-Destruction, Vol. 1
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For evening wear, using a gold or silver thread instead of cotton can add sparkle to your knitting.
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I don't really enjoy sewing with knits, either -- even with a serger.
What Women Are Saying About Clothing Today
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As Anna, the arty portraitist, Julia Roberts starts slowly-she's the living embodiment of a certain style of knit-browed overconcern Hollywood stars fall back on, especially when forced to act with Brits-but she gathers a serious head of steam, and by the credits has delivered a fine performance.
Upmarket, Tastefully Dirty And Deeply Uninvolving
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Surgeons placed a metal band around the knee cap to help it knit back together.
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She receives wonderfully sympathetic support from a tight-knit cast of sidemen, and adds her own fiddle, organ and calabash textures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Try this trick by adding a contrasting polo neck under a chunky knit.
The Sun
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We're usually knitting with a card that was designed as single-colour tuck or slip.
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The Fords are a close-knit, loving family, but the counselors who saw Greg said he was exhibiting classic signs of sex abuse, which naturally put the parents under suspicion.
Unholy Communion
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Every well-dressed man should have some stylish knitwear in his wardrobe.
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That seems to be part of the fun of knitting… it can be a real crapshoot when it comes to the finished project.
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Shy, plump, wearing a hand-knitted blue angora bolero, slaved over by my mother unpicked more than once to get it just right for the big occasion.
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Her interests were sewing, knitting, cooking, gardening, carding wool for quilts and making feather pillows.
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They wore their school hats, and badges with the brown, white, and blue ribbons, and the regulation "exeat" uniform, brown Harris tweed skirts and knitted heather-mixture sports coats.
A Patriotic Schoolgirl
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Trouser suits and jersey knit tops are key items in what she calls her seasonal capsule wardrobe of significant items.
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Katie, a very talented woman, sold dried flowers and some beautiful handknits.
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The current Fall/Winter collection features shimmery evening satin looks, super soft organic cotton t-shirts, and cozy, hand-knit items to warm the body on the chilliest of days.
Kate Andrews | Inhabitat
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This is also the only knitting machine that will produce a fabric like the old and familiar style of striped mitten… yet so simple that a child of six to ten years of age can operate it easily and readily.
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Traditional hand-knit wool sweaters start at around $200.
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Hosiery constitutes 22% of import (mostly from China), slipovers, jackets, and sweaters - 17%, and knitwear polo shirts, tee-shirts, and underwaists - 16%.
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When it comes to knitwear, bigger is now better.
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It is this: it is much easier and quicker to knit two stitches together, by whatever means, if the two stitches themselves were knit or purled in the preceding row.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Neighbours say the tight-knit village has been shocked to hear of the death of the self-employed stonemason and walling contractor.
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Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards.
Sunstroked
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‘I knit, crochet, embroider and bead,’ she explains.
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His eyebrows were knitted together in what looked like a hint of frustration.
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It features a two-button placket, full-fashioned rib-knit collar with contrast tipping, set-in sleeve, rib-knit cuffs with contrast tipping and extended back length with vent hem.
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It was just an experiment piece - where I tried to remember how to knit, purl, cast off, increase and decrease etc.
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Above the navy skirt, she wore a white collared, long-sleeved blouse and matching blue knit sweater vest.
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The first sign she had that the house was beginning to unknit was a spatter of cold rain on her head.
SACRAMENT
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Suddenly he found there were other skills he had to teach his girls - knitting was just one of them, but the self-taught silversmith soon picked up the knit one, purl one skills as well!
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We are a very close-knit family and support each other through any crises.
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This instinct caused animals to form close-knit, evenly spaced groups, as seen in real mammal herds and fish schools.
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His was a tall, slender, well-knit figure, and Grief, studying him, estimated his character from his face.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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My grandmother knitted me some socks.
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The carriage will then slide across those you do not wish to knit.
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The classes will include crochet, knitting, needlework or any craft that there is a demand for.
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Using a knitting needle as a ramrod he pushed it as far up as it would go.
THE ONLY GAME
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Ushi ... yeah I love to knead;), knit, embroider, sew. .my chum the great handcrafter mentioned in this post.
Weekend Projects
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The largest is the drawer machine which has 4 feeds and knits from four bobbins.
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At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans.
Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
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I've just been home, desultorily knitting and walking the dog, and I haven't accomplished nearly what you did while making a transatlantic trip AND attending a lovely 3 day party/family reunion!
Jean's Knitting
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On their heads, they wore white knitted skullcaps, silken headscarves or baseball caps.
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Nito-onna: Japanese for a woman so dedicated to her career that she has no time to iron blouses and so resorts to dressing only in knitted tops.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Toujours Tingo - words that don’t exist in English
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The reporter was a young girl in denim dungarees and a bright red knitted coat.
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Manufacturing sales: clothing shoes and hats, silk knitwear, leather leather clothing.
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But some of the Tompkins Square Park "crusties" - a loose-knit group of mainly young heroin users and drinkers with whom Pupshaw used to hang out - say Pupshaw's head was badly injured in the attack and that police aren't investigating as thoroughly as if the victim had been a
Undefined
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She knitted her brow, then took another look at the stitches.
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The introduction talks at length about the origin of the word knitting and its historical meaning.
A Passion for Knitting
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The close-knit dramas of family life thus necessarily give way to an episodic tale that lurches from one eccentric encounter to another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lydie and Emily sat knitting new socks, scarves, and mittens for the children, for winter was only a few months away.
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A broad panorama of the triumphs and follies of humanity, an exploration of the quirks of the mind, of the nobility but more often the meanness and sheer malevolence of human nature, the collection was knit together by a web of self-consistent thinking, a skein of ideas woven from a lifetime of close reasoning on life, art, and literature.
William hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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In the UK, a jumper is a knitted garment (also a pullover, or even ‘pully’) and mathematics has always been abbreviated as maths over here.
FODDER • by Paul Graham
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After frogging the scarf I had been knitting, I was truly inspired to get the new version done as quickly as possible.
Creative Every Day, Part 9 « Looking for Roots
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Life Without Lawyers is knit together with the kinds of stories that make law-school graduates want to laugh right along with that joke about what you call a busload of lawyers at the bottom of the ocean.
Slate Magazine
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By her forties she was spectacled, stout and keen on knitting.
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In 2002, she changed careers to follow her passion and open a hand-knitting boutique, “String,” in New York City.
We Remember - Esther Jones, 1915 - 1994
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During my working life at Atkins I was responsible for knitting many items of fully fashioned goods… men's half-hose (Col. Clive would never wear circular knit half hose), stockings in worsted, cotton, artificial and pure silk, ladies briefs and outerwear.
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Then the River Wharfe at the top of the lane bursts its banks, bringing flood water, mud and misery to the close - knit community.
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Mom taught me the basic knit stitches when I was a kid.
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I can't afford to pay anything, but you'll have my eternal gratitude and maybe I could knit you something.
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I finished the bedsocks, and am knitting Repeat No. Six (I think) of the top edging of the Princess.
Archive 2009-05-01
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If you get skipped stitches with a universal needle, change to a ball-point needle for heavier fabrics or a stretch needle for finer knits.
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Avoid wrinkles by choosing lightweight knits and woven polyesters such as georgette or similarly textured fabrics that have wash-and-wear, wrinkle-free qualities.
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Mom knit me a pair of socks.
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The fabrics are understated, using simple knits, jersey cotton and moleskins.
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A wide variety was on show with items such as long colourful floaty dresses and tops, tailored coats, funky knitwear and distressed jackets - all of which I have no doubt will be best sellers.
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In old photos of my homeland in Bohemia I see our shepherd, with his broad-brimmed hat and his loden coat, leaning against a tree, knitting a woolen sock.
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David Chen at Mega Cap says knit caps, aka: beanies or skull caps, actually hit a couple years back as well.
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Downing said British ticket touts were an "unwanted export" and were prevalent at sporting and music events around the world, with a close-knit network running sophisticated operations.
Olympic Games organisers and police launch crackdown on ticket touts
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She takes her knitting with her everywhere.
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I think I will find sympathy here if I say that my solution was to retrofit simple 3x3 cables along the front by picking which 8 stitches I wanted to use outlining in purls, of course, throwing a rescue line, and bravely dropping those 8 stitches down all 20+ rows of finished knitting, and reknitting them cabled, in place.
Making Light: Open thread 135
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The routine for knitting double jacquard is to start with the carriages at the right and threaded with the background colour.
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It became even more individualistic and displayed few signs of the closely knit and hierarchically organized structure of the previous era.
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Erris is renowned for many things including its outstanding tradition in exquisite hand crafts like lace making, crochet, needlework and knitting.
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The usual fare: sweaters, cardigans, tanks… but it is still a fun book that any knitter will enjoy.
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Care for hologram stretch knits by turning garments inside out and laundering them by hand; air dry.
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A door behind the knitting machines opened and I met these two women, Atalanta (left) and Holly, the creatives behind the label Atalanta Weller.
Stil in Berlin
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Purl one, knit one, purl one, purl one - wait, that was a knit, wasn't it?
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Last year Teresa spent time in Ethiopia where she set up a knitting project, teaching children and young women how to knit and read patterns.
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The scowl of the opposing parties, the blanched cheeks, the knit brows, and the grinding teeth, not pretermitting the deadly gleams that shoot from their kindled eyes, are ornaments which a plain battle between factions cannot boast, but which, notwithstanding, are very suitable to the fierce and gloomy silence of that premeditated vengeance which burns with such intensity in the heart, and scorches up the vitals into such a thirst for blood.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
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Dress down these deckchair stripes with a simple knit in grey or taupe.
Times, Sunday Times
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So buy a few lightweight cashmere or wool knits in these colours now and you will be happily wearing them through to spring and summer.
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Add to the list a dual-purpose dress that you can wear to the office with a sexy knit (also an essential) slung over it, but which will also make you the belle of the cocktail party when you take your jumper off.
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If I feel peckish while knitting I decide to knit two more rows and if I'm still hungry then I'll go and get something to eat.
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The Lunch Group is to try out a local hostelry at the end of the month and our usual groups for Scrabble, knit-and-natter and the play reading will take place this month.
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A large, disapproving looking woman of mature years accompanied by a lugubrious Schnauzer - both clad in sleeveless knitted jerkins - had materialised on the lawn.
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The term double knitting DK came to the United States from Britain and refers to a weight of yarn that is between a worsted and a sportweight.
A Passion for Knitting
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She did a lot of knitting and sewing, volunteered in her church, and sang in the choir.
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J., supplier of flannel sheets, knowing that the firm manufactured knitted jersey crib sheets.
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With size 10 needles, cast on 8 stitches, knit in stockinette stitch for however long you want your lei to be.
May 2004
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Her father put his paper down and her mother laid her knitting in her lap.
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It might be easier to add pockets if you make the pockets out of a non-knit material and topstitch the edges where the knit and non-knit fabrics meet.
The next frontier - A Dress A Day
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Try a crisp white shirt to offset your jazzy trousers, or a frilly blouse and neat knit.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can now put those knitting needles down as we have drawn the campaign to a close.
The Sun
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The first pattern row is plain knit – Advance to Go – and I’ve done that.
Jean's Knitting
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All jumpers, cardigans and socks were knitted by hand.
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'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows.
Robert Elsmere
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Finally, set both carriages to knit and using tension 2, knit the rib.
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O Henry's usage of parallelism featured well - knit plot and clear rhythm.
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Lightweight knits (i.e., tricot, sheers, fluid lamé or synthetic interlocks) will slip around when pinning and cutting.
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None of these appearances refers to any of the others, and there is no sustained plot to knit them together.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The initial step in any piece of knitting is to make the first stitch on one needle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barnes & Noble in MD is carrying British knitting magazines lately; I bought one issue of Knitting, mainly for an article on felting.
Jean's Knitting
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal The Sarong Skirt: Pair a pareu with a chunky knit top The Sarong Skirt Layer an acid-color pareu under a chunky knit top with opaque tights and a funky sandal.
Endless Summer
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She comments that lightning "attacks the 'pointed spire '[{lines} 64] of the church … throws aristocratic' stately towers '[{lines} 66] to the ground … [and] rends' in twain the iron-knit stone '[{lines} 65] of the church" (134).
'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)
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If you thought knitting was limited to jumpers and scarves, then think again.
