A friend in my needlework group shared techniques for sock making recently. I couldn't wait to begin. We shopped for wooden sock needles because I really enjoy knitting with bamboo or wood. We ...

For an hour every week, sixth-graders at Burleigh Manor Middle School set aside reading, writing and arithmetic and take up homemade knitting needles and skeins of yarn. The 11- and 12-year-olds at ...