MANKATO — What is it about making handmade clothes? Is it knowing that thought and care went into its creation rather than simply picking it from a store’s shelf? Or is it the pleasure of knowing that ...

I had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs this year with my family. We used a bunch of different materials and experimented to see what worked and what failed. The problem is that the eggs were destined ...

When Diane Ivey brought her hand-dyed yarn to her first national trade show in 2014, she realized she was the only Black vendor in a room of more than 300 other attendees. From that moment, she ...

Silky skeins of merino wool dangle from a drying rack outside the sun-soaked studio. They say turn your passion into your profession. So Albuquerque artist Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd founded ZiaWoolz, a hand ...

For many fiberholics, knitting is like a gateway craft. The addiction usually starts with an innocent purchase of a pretty ball of yarn and a pair of needles or maybe a freebie starter kit from an ...

Amanda Moore of Charlottetown had taken up knitting a few years ago at the suggestion of a counsellor, after an accident caused back problems so severe she couldn't work. She had become depressed and ...

Roxanne Yeun doesn’t know precisely when she first thought to interweave art and yarn. More than a decade ago, she visited the Dalí Museum in Florida with her husband, Neville, and became curious ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - A table is set up in the corner of the room and holds several steam pans. Another is adjacent holding plastic containers of fiber reactive dye. Although the space is not huge, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jul. 14—Silky skeins of merino wool dangle from a drying rack outside the sun-soaked studio. They say turn your passion into your ...