knit
v.v. to make clothes like sweaters or scarves by using long needles to loop wool or yarn together. You can do this by hand or with a machine.
v. to interlock loops of yarn or thread with needles to create a fabric. Often used figuratively to describe the joining together of people or things into a close-knit unit.
My grandmother taught me how to knit a warm scarf.
She decided to knit a wool sweater for her brother's birthday during the long winter evenings.
The community center aims to knit the diverse neighborhood together through shared gardening projects and local festivals.
From Middle English knytten, from Old English cnyttan (“to fasten, tie, bind, knit; add, append”), from Proto-West Germanic knuttijan, from Proto-Germanic knutjaną, *knuttijaną (“to make knots, knit”). Cognate with Low German knütten and Old Norse knýta (whence Danish knytte, Norwegian Nynorsk knyta). More at knot.
The verb is both transitive and intransitive; it can take a direct object (knit a sweater) or stand alone (she likes to knit).
She knited a hatShe knitted a hatThe past tense and past participle of 'knit' is 'knitted' (or sometimes 'knit'), requiring a doubled 't' before the suffix.