knitting vs knitwear

knitting

noun
  • Material that has been, or is being knitted. 

  • overhead electrification wires, OHLE 

  • The action of the verb to knit; the process of producing knitted material. 

knitwear

noun
  • knitted garments 

How often have the words knitting and knitwear occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )