Her book, How to Knit a Bathroom, tells in carefully researched detail how a simple idea rooted in the late 1960s age of miniskirts, knee high boots and crochet waistcoats inspired a knitwear business ...

I ordered each sweater in my usual size, a women’s medium. When they arrived, I felt the fabrics between my fingers and against my (more sensitive) cheek. I wore the sweaters on their own and ...