hand knit

English

Noun

hand knit (plural hand knits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verb

hand knit (third-person singular simple present hand knits, present participle hand knitting, simple past and past participle hand knitted or hand knit)

1. Alternative form of handknit.
   • 1998, Lisa Kaye Laurel, The Irresistable Prince (Royal Weddings), Silhouette Books, →ISBN:

     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.

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

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

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

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