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.

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." ...

Decorative Stitch in Shelby Township has more than 5,000 bolts of quilting fabric as well as notions, patterns, sewing and embroidery machines, and a wide array of thread. (PHOTO BY SUSAN SMILEY) ...