hand knit

plural hand knits

1. alternativeAlternative form of handknit.

   You are not going to send any of your hand knits to the cleaners.

   1987, Gertrude Taylor, American Knitting Book, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 37

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   Patons & Baldwins, inc.: Beehive fashions in wool. etc. 5913–5915. Beehive hand knits for babies and children. 17351.

   1938, Catalog of Copyright Entries, volume 34, part 2, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 1547

   Kit knitting and chain store patterns also produced colourful hand knits.

   1988, Craft Australia, Crafts Council of Australia, page 68

present singular third person hand knits · participle present hand knitting · participle past hand knitted · past hand knitted

1. alternativeAlternative form of handknit.

   For example, my mother hand knits a sweater for my granddad at the beginning of every winter season.

   2023, Amanpreet Kaur, Advanced IELTS-Speaking Cue Cards with Answer, Rana Books India, →ISBN

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   Over the past weeks he had seen her play with toddlers whose moms were busy trying on clothes, wipe dribbly chins whose owners sat in high chairs in the coffee shop, secretly slip tiny sweaters she had hand knit onto the shelves of her secondhand store and give a trembling sigh as she watched them leave the shop worn by wiggly little bundles carried out in their mommies’ arms.

   1998, Lisa Kaye Laurel, The Irresistable Prince (Royal Weddings), Silhouette Books, →ISBN

   When I was a student, my mother hand knitted a sloppy-joe-style sweater for me with a beautiful (and expensive) merino wool.

   2018, Vikki Haffenden, Translating Between Hand and Machine Knitting, Ramsbury, Marlborough: The Crowood Press Ltd, →ISBN