How to Use knitting in a Sentence

knitting

noun
  • She keeps her knitting in the closet.
  • Daley then goes into 15 knitting projects: sweaters, cardigans, socks, blankets, dog hats and so on.
    Erin Lassner, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2024
  • One Mandarin teacher is currently charging $60 per hour and a knitting instructor is charging $50 per hour.
    Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Put down the knitting, the book and the broom as cabaret has come back, too.
    New York Times, 17 June 2021
  • These shows are as safe as a knitting show or a coin show.
    Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2018
  • As the knitting takes shape, layers of stones are added and tamped down.
    The Economist, 8 May 2021
  • The shelves are filled mostly with books on sewing and knitting.
    Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The store sells tools needed for knitting, like yarn, and hosts events to learn how to knit.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Smith was on her way home, where the knitting was waiting.
    Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2020
  • Stick to your knitting, and let others do the hand-wringing.
    Alan Rusbridger, Quartz at Work, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Perhaps a monument to the fox will one day join the knitting mouse.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2017
  • With each Games, both the sweater and its knitting pattern are available for sale to the public.
    Richard Martyn-Hemphill, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2018
  • This is what they were made for: Ceremonies, births, and knitting to pass the time in between.
    refinery29.com, 20 June 2018
  • Tomas in his tight midnight-black sweater, skin peeking through the knitting.
    Vulture, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Classes were held in the back; a wide array of yarn was for sale, as were tools for knitting and crochet.
    Rachel Felder, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2020
  • About 15 years ago, I was invited to join a knitting group.
    Jane E. Brody, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Not only is the brand a great for resource knitting projects of all levels (sweaters!
    Talia Abbas, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The promise: Space-age knitting that would make grandma’s jaw drop.
    Outside Online, 9 Mar. 2022
  • For now, that means quiet days at home, knitting and reading.
    Adam Galler, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Knits and purls, inverse stitches of one another, are the 0’s and 1’s of knitting.
    Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Through the process of 3D knitting, the brand is able to create their products with little-to-no waste, the company claims.
    NBC News, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Koskinin estimates that out of 102 Finnish athletes at the Games, half are knitting.
    Laken Litman, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There’s jazz dance, sewing, book folding, scarf knitting.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 22 July 2019
  • Guests are welcome to bring their knitting or crochet projects.
    courant.com, 24 Feb. 2022
  • Creating a pair of pants with a 3D knitting machine takes about two hours.
    Alden Wicker, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024
  • For one, the retailer has had to adopt a new design process for garments made via 3-D knitting.
    Sarah Halzack, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • Small things like baking bread and knitting became a source of comfort.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The airport or café is also an office and a movie theater, a knitting club, and a classroom.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • While some take up baking or even knitting, these two took up boxing.
    azcentral, 26 Mar. 2018
  • This group brings in their own projects, such as knitting or crochet, and assists people who are stuck with their projects.
    courant.com, 2 July 2021

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