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attend to one's knitting

attend to one's knitting is the alternative form of stick to one's knitting.

Meaning of stick to one's knitting

Verb

stick to one's knitting (third-person singular simple present sticks to one's knitting, present participle sticking to one's knitting, simple past and past participle stuck to one's knitting)

  1. (idiomatic) To concentrate on one's own tasks, affairs, area of expertise, etc., especially in order to avoid distraction, embarrassment, or other needless problems.
    • [A]s sportsmen I think that we should stick to our knitting and not allow economic or social conditions to interfere with the Olympic Games.1935 October 27, “Helene Mayer to be in Olympics: Woman Fencing Champion Accepts Invitation”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Oct 2013

Forms of attend to one's knitting

third-person singular presentattends to one's knitting
present participleattending to one's knitting
past participleattended to one's knitting
pastattended to one's knitting

Questions about attend to one's knitting

What is attend to one's knitting the alternative form of?
Attend to one's knitting is the alternative form of stick to one's knitting.

Words near attend to one's knitting in the dictionary

  1. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna
  2. Attenborough's pitcher plant
  3. Attenborough's pitcher plants
  4. attend
  5. attend to
  6. attend to one's knitting
  7. attend to one's own knitting
  8. attendable
  9. attendance
  10. attendance allowance
  11. attendance allowances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: attend to one's knitting (page history and authors); stick to one's knitting (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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