1867, w, In and About Lower Thames Street, If you go down the bridge-steps, you seem to have dropped as through a trap from tumult into stagnation. You meet one person heavily dragging his feet up the steps; on a landing a ragged, cowering tramp is dozing; at the bottom of the steps the street seller of fruit and ginger-beer plies her knitting-needles as self-absorbedly as if she were sitting at a cottage-door with lime trees rustling, instead of London traffic rumbling, overhead.
Fuller Bertram Cope|page=131|passage=He was knitting. The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.
30 September 2019, Doug Johnson, Upcoming events: A look at senior-friendly events happening in October, Check out this ancient craft-making technique that uses a single knitting-needle to create hats, gloves and mittens out of wool.
