Although knitting may have had a reputation as hobby one does alone, it is becoming more and more of a social activity.

Although knitting may be done with ribbons, metal wire or more exotic filaments, most yarns are made by spinning fibers.

Although traditional lace has always been a village staple for industry, it wasn't until lace makers turned their knitting needles to crafting g-strings, thongs and other lingerie items that the village had its products become more and more popular.

Although he is a trusted friend and confidante of Fletcher's, he seldom becomes directly involved in his schemes, preferring instead to spend his association time observing the latest goings-on whilst busying himself with his latest knitting projects.

Although nålebinding is slower and more laborious than knitting, it is easier on the shoulders, back and hands, and the fabric it produces can be more dense and durable than knitted fabric.

To work with a second color, a second needle is used. Although needle tatting looks similar to shuttle tatting, it differs in structure and is slightly thicker and looser because both the needle and the thread must pass through the stitches.

Although the seeds can germinate in moist needle humus in the spring, these seedlings will die as the duff dries in the summer.

Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies from complications from AIDS in 1986 at the age of 26.

Although the word's origin is Javanese, its etymology may be either from the Javanese amba (' to write ') and titik (' dot ' or ' point '), or constructed from a hypothetical Proto-Austronesian root * beCík, meaning ' to tattoo ' from the use of a needle in the process.

Although severe complications are extremely rare, it is important to know that infection, bleeding, numbness, tingling, headache, and paralysis may ensue due to misplacement of the needle or cement.

Although there are Kakeya needle sets of arbitrarily small positive measure and Besicovich sets of measure 0, there are no Kakeya needle sets of measure 0.

Although the ability to reverse the playback of recorded sounds had been known since the early days of gramophone records and can be achieved by simply placing the needle on the record and spinning it counter-clockwise, reverse effects were regarded largely as a curiosity and were little used until the 1950s.

Although the 14th-century European compass-card in box frame and dry pivot needle was adopted in China after its use was taken by Japanese pirates in the 16th century ( who had in turn learned of it from Europeans ), the Chinese design of the suspended dry compass persisted in use well into the 18th century.

Although needle phobia is defined simply as an extreme fear of medically related shots / injections, it appears in several varieties.

Although most specific phobias stem from the individuals themselves, the most common type of needle phobia, affecting 50 % of those afflicted, is an inherited vasovagal reflex reaction.

Although most phobias are dangerous to some degree, needle phobia is one of the few that actually kills.

Although a wide variety of graphite tube designs have been used over the years, the dimensions nowadays are typically 20 – 25 mm in length and 5 – 6 mm inner diameter.

Although the diameter of hail is varied, in the United States, the average observation of damaging hail is between 2. 5 cm ( 1 in ) and golf ball-sized ( 1. 75 in ).

Although there are many varieties of daikon, the most common in Japan, the aokubi-daikon, has the shape of a giant carrot, approximately long and in diameter.

Although some of these circles were huge ( many were in excess of 100 meters or 300 feet in diameter ), they weren't large enough for high-speed merging.

Although the reactance at the feedpoint can be cancelled using such an element length, the feed-point impedance is very high, and is highly dependent on the diameter of the conductor ( which makes only a small difference at the actual resonant frequency ).

Although reflecting telescopes produce other types of optical aberrations, it is a design that allows for very large diameter objectives.

Although pheochromocytomas may grow to large size (> 3 kg ), most weigh < 100 g and are < 10 cm in diameter.

Although the rate of healing depends upon the patient ’ s wound-healing capacity, nasal wounds measuring up to 10 mm in diameter usually heal in at 4-weeks post-operative.

Although not obvious from sea floor topography, it is a roughly circular area about 30 km in diameter where older rocks have been uplifted as much as 4 km towards the surface.

Although the magazine can be shortened, with a corresponding loss in magazine capacity, such a modification tends to be much more technically complex, often involving large diameter square threading, and welding or silver soldering, at a bare minimum.

Although damaged by a road that runs through it, the pass is the site of a stone circle measuring 72 m ( 236 ft ) in diameter.

Although capable of attaining a bell diameter of, these jellyfish can vary greatly in size, those found in lower latitudes are much smaller than their far northern counterparts with bells about in diameter.

Although once produced in a wide range of sizes ( from less than 7 to more than 16 inches in diameter ) and sometimes with glass core discs, the examples most commonly encountered today are 10 or 12 inches in diameter and consist of an aluminum core disc coated with black nitrocellulose lacquer.

Although eroded, the original rim diameter is estimated at and the age is estimated to be less than 320 million years ( Mississippian or younger ).

Although their reproduction is poorly studied, Australian salmon are all known to be " pelagic spawners "; that is, they spawn in open water during the austral spring, releasing a large number of tiny ( 1 mm in diameter ), smooth spherical eggs made buoyant by lipid droplets.

Although this drilling method has largely been supplanted in recent years by other, faster drilling techniques, it is still the most practicable drilling method for large diameter, deep bedrock wells, and in widespread use for small rural water supply wells.

Although the telescope as a whole has a focal ratio ( focal length divided by diameter ) of f / 0. 71, the individual segments, being one third that diameter, have a focal ratio of f / 2. 14.

Although the overall loop is very long, at around 4, 000 km circumference, the rotor itself would be thin, around 5 cm diameter and the sheath is not much bigger.

Although it is considered the most important pipe in the country, it has been damaged by overwork and corrosion of its diameter walls.

Although the size of the thalli is variable and species-dependent, in some species the thalli can grow quite large, up to 30 cm in diameter.

Although the barge had been moored in over of water, the test left a crater in diameter and deep in the bottom of the lagoon.

Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

Although open to the general public it is not overcrowded ; ;

Although we have no measures of its strength or intensity, the heritage of the doctrine of inalienable rights is retained.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

Although much of the Industrial Division's promotional effort is devoted to securing new locations and expansions by major industries, small business is also afforded considerable attention.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.