When you knit a Christmas gift, it’s also an opportunity to personalise your presents by using colours the recipient likes, or even adding additional details like a name tag addressed to them.

The mechanism for fully automated knitting Currently, if you want to recreate a knitted fabric just by looking at a photo of it, the process is slow and difficult.

A timeless knitwear style, men’s cable knit sweaters use raised, textured stitches that cross over each other to produce thick twists, braids, woven ropes, or cord-like patterns.

In practice, knitting patterns contain a lot of abbreviations like k and p, for knit and purl (the two standard types of stitches), st for stitches, yo for yarn over, or sl1 for “slip one stitch ...

Shetland local Wilma Johnson can't even remember learning the skill. Her great-uncle taught her when she was 3. "I just knit because it's like breathing," she says. "I can't do without it." ...

I like patterns, I said, I like the algebra of lace and colourwork. The first computer programmes were weaving patterns. You knit lace in binary, every increase balanced by a decrease, zeros and ones.