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two sticks, one string, and the smug power to make a sweater from nothing
means The craft of making fabric or garments by interlocking loops of yarn with two or more needles.
from From the Old English verb cnyttan, 'to tie in a knot,' which is exactly the family knitting belongs to — it's a close cousin of 'knot' itself. The sense slid over time from 'fastening things together' to the specific art of looping yarn into cloth; you can still feel the original meaning in phrases like a 'closely knit' family, where people are bound rather than fabricated.
- war effort
- WWII knitters hid coded messages in stitch patterns
- brain boost
- Lowers heart rate and rivals meditation for calm
- male origin
- Earliest knitting guilds were strictly men-only
- speed record
- Fastest knitter hit 118 stitches in three minutes
- impossible math
- Knitters can craft shapes geometry calls non-Euclidean
fair isle sweater — traditional scottish knitwear from fair isle with intricate geometric patterns, dating back to the 1920s
aran sweater — irish cable-knit sweater from aran islands with distinctive braided patterns, each family had unique designs