We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. It’s been nearly 20 years since I plained, purled, unpicked, sulked and finally shoved yet another ...

Everyone has a story about how they learned to knit. Every January, I think about mine. The needles were green; the yarn was blue. That much I remember. It was November 1981, I was 10 years old, and ...

You’d be surprised by how much you can learn about life from pushing a bunch of yarn around with two sticks. When I first started knitting, the biggest lesson was that patience is a virtue, and while ...

Knitting lessons could end in Shetland's schools after summer if councillors back a plan this week to save £130,000. Fourteen part-time teachers would lose their jobs if the cut is agreed by the ...