If you've ever worn a wintry Fair Isle knit, it's easy to understand their appeal: The bold patterns, the rich colors, and it feels even cozier in a warm wool blend. This style of knitting originated ...

The Mitten Handbook (Abrams Books, 2017) acts as an instructional manual for knitting custom mittens. Author Mary Scott Huff encourages knitters to create their own unique mittens by combining ...

Knitters and crafters had been anticipating Channel 4’s new craft show Game of Wool for some time. Knitting, so long the poor relation of the textile crafts, was finally to take centre stage on ...

A DESIGNER who is keeping the ancient Fair Isle knitting tradition alive on the UK’s remotest inhabited island has been awarded more than £40,000 to expand her business. Marie Bruhat was inspired to ...

Fair Isle is famous for its knitting, but is it a dying tradition? Moira Hickey travels there to find out how important it is to island life. Show more Moira Hickey visits Fair Isle, famous around the ...

To knit or not to knit? Malachy Tallack wrestles with his desire to knit, a practice synonymous with his Fair Isle home. By Malachy Tallack A strange and unnatural urge has come over me this week . . ...