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  • She buys vintage afghans from thrift shops, uses automated, circular knit looms to create solid or striped pieces and outsources hand-knitting or crocheting to a team of talented yarn-workers around Austin, Texas, where she lives.

    Turning Knitting Into Art That Pops Rachel Emma Silverman 2011

  • There is simply no way that hand-knitting can produce a living wage, or even very much by way of pin money.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Jean 2009

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2008

  • 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.

    Archive for » 2008 » January : Crafting a Green World 2008

  • And a special thank you tonight to Shirley Lanford (ph) in Macon, Georgia, for hand-knitting these two soft little blankets for the twins.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2007 2007

  • When I commented on the many other errors in my knitting, she said, Well, hand-knitting will never be perfect.

    Post-Turkey Miscellany Susan Palwick 2007

  • When I commented on the many other errors in my knitting, she said, Well, hand-knitting will never be perfect.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • 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 2003

  • 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 2003

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