Jacquie Grant has been collecting circular sock machines for about 30 years. She owns about 200 and a factory that makes them. "It's just the technology that interests me," Grant said.

In a workshop that’s a refuge from the world, Dorothea Campbell uses her hands. Her right hand turns a crank, or manipulates dozens of needles arranged in a circle. With her left, she holds tightly to ...

RACINE — Forty-five people from seven states gathered last week at First United Methodist Church to knit as part of the first Antique Circular Sock Machine Conference in Southeast Wisconsin. The crank ...

I do a bit of knitting from time to time, and I've been wanting to knit some socks for a while, but I didn't want to actually knit the socks, if that makes sense. My hands aren't always great at doing ...

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Emma Willis was, if you'll excuse the pun, cut out for a career in shirts. After art school and a stint as a singer-songwriter, she spent the late 1980s selling shirts desk to desk in London, before ...

A Springfield man pleads guilty to killing a woman and her unborn child — but authorities say he didn’t mean to shoot her, reports the Springfield News-Leader. Plus, a circular sock machine is now on ...