'tend to one's knitting

'tend to one's knitting (third-person singular simple present 'tends to one's knitting, present participle 'tending to one's knitting, simple past and past participle 'tended to one's knitting)

1. Alternative form of stick to one's knitting
   • 1915, The Spectator: An American Weekly Review of Insurance‎, volume 94:

     Say! if you want to be happy, loved and admired by all, keep your place—’tend to your knitting—mind your own business, and mind it well.

   • 1929, Reginald Charles Barker, The Hair-Trigger Brand‎, page 66:

     “Better go home and ’tend to your knitting, you men,” said one, urging his horse forward […]

   • 1938, Hugh Pentecost [Judson Philips], The Death Syndicate‎, page 166:

     “You want me to forget all those things, go home, and ’tend to my knitting. Is that it, Perdue?”