Knitting is a way of creating clothing by looping together long thin pieces of material such as cotton or wool.
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The grass was making needle-like pricks through the thinmaterial of her maroon scrubs, and she sat up, smoothing her matching V-neck over her chest and belly, feeling the familiar stab of self-consciousness as her hand rode over the unfashionable lumps.