"I just get a bee in my bonnet sometimes and just go for it," 80-year-old Shirley Ellicott said of the knitting challenge Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, ...

Standard & Strange co-founder Jeremy Smith, whose business stocks crewneck sweaters and cardigans hand-knit in Peru for the label Indi + Ash, explains that commercially available hand-knit sweaters ...

NEW YORK — Cydney Alvarez, a fabric developer in Brooklyn, was packing to visit her family in Dallas for Christmas last year when she realized she had knitted her stepmother two left-handed mittens.

In a little cottage at Redwood Terrace Retirement Home, Pat Anderson’s creativity pours out of her. After a long career as a textile designer, she still enjoys making yarn by hand on her homemade ...