knitting-needle

It's not everyday that a fashion designer will admit to putting motherhood above her work, or site a Keds-wearing, knitting-needle packing granny as an inspiration.

Meredith Barnett: Shoe-Obsessed Loeffler Randall Designer Gets Her Ideas From Dolls' Feet 2010

A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example.

The Purloined Letter 2006

On seeing me she scratched her head under her cap with a knitting-needle, and suddenly asked me, could I copy a petition for her.

First Love 2006

Only after demands from military leaders for more penetration did we adopt highly stabilized rounds that produce the ineffective “knitting-needle” trauma so unlikely to result in one- or two- or three- shot stops against suicidal aggressors.

Our Guns and Theirs.. 2005

There are three common knitting-needle categories: straight, circular, and double-pointed.

A Passion for Knitting Nancy J. Thomas 2002

And while the savage with the spear bobbed his head at me with a frightful grin, this chap left off mauling my shoulder, and reaching over towards the body of my fallen pursuer, pulled the knitting-needle thing from his neck.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Wherever a knitting-needle can pass, the parent moth can enter.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

Knit 15 rounds, then divide the stitches as follows: Slip 24 stitches on one knitting-needle for top of hand starting from the 3d cast-on stitch at beginning of thumb, and the remaining 24 stitches for palm of hand on another needle.

Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous

* Pass worsted-needle through 1st stitch of front knitting-needle as if knitting, and slip stitch off -- pass through 2d stitch as if purling -- leave stitch on, pass thread through 1st stitch of back needle as if purling, slip stitch off, pass thread through 2d stitch of back needle as if knitting, leave stitch on.

Handbook of Wool Knitting and Crochet Anonymous

A letter may be compressed into a thin spiral roll, not differing much in shape or bulk from a large knitting-needle, and in this form it might be inserted into the rung of a chair, for example.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill