Many of us will be opening packages to find hand-knit socks this Christmas. While they rarely feature in the top lists for most desired gifts, hand-knit socks are among the most traditional Christmas ...

Pair new hand-knit feet with cuffs from worn socks. There’s nothing warmer than a hand-knit wool sock, but a pair can take anywhere from 10 to 40 hours to knit. A trick I use for old, worn-out pairs ...

My oldest sock has survived these many years because it was kissed with love, holds a bit of heart and has room for all of ...

Gucci socks at 190 euro, Alexander McQueen socks for 245 euro – the sock inflation brought us socks for the 1%. Or actually, they're accessoires. I’ve long been a proponent of getting sockaphobics to ...

In 2002, when Bulgarian Dimitar Apostolov went to college in the United States, his grandmother Yanka Dodnikova sent him off with several pairs of hand-knit wool socks to keep him warm during the cold ...

An army runs, literally, on its feet, and more specifically on its socks. Rachel Maines explored the role of this humble footwear in warfare in her paper "Socks at War: Trenchfoot Casualties in the ...

Hand knitters salivate over the rich colors and tonal shifts of hand-dyed yarns. “Hand dyes turn even simple stitches into something special,” says Alexandra Parks, founder of Dashing Mouse Designs.

Harry Potter fan Catherine Mandle is sure glad she’s a knitter: Her knitting needles are helping her pass the time until “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” is released July 21. The Minneapolis ...