I taught myself how to knit recently. It's a process of manipulating yarn to create items.
I love knitted items! Im not so good at it, I tend to mess up and get distracted. But I love when people give me things they knitted!
History of knitting
Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric. The word is derived from "knot", thought to originate from the Dutch verb "knutten", which is similar to the Old English "cnyttan", “to knot”. Its origins lie in the basic human need for clothing for protection against the elements. More recently, hand knitting has become less a necessary skill
score stitches, and I dropped four of them".
Aran production today.
While in the past, the majority of jumpers and other Aran garments were knitted by hand, today the majority of items for sale in Ireland and elsewhere are either machine knit or produced on a hand loom. There are very few people still knitting jumpers by hand on a commercial basis but hand knit jumpers are still available at local craft initiatives.
Machine-knitted jumpers tend to use finer wool, cotton, or synthetic yarn and