Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...

BEAVER VALLEY — It is a crisp February morning and Jennie Watkins is standing in the old barn on her 10-acre farm off Beaver Valley Road. An avid hand spinner and knitter, she is looking over her ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The Ulster County Handspinners Guild will demonstrate the art of hand spinning at the historic Matthewis Persen House at 74 John St. Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gina ...

MILFORD, Maine (WABI) - On Saturday freshly sheared wool was spun into a sweater in Milford, all for charity. The Back-to-Back Wool Challenge is an international competition involving an eight-person ...

About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...

Imagine running your fingers through long, lustrous locks. It's a sensual experience and it's uniting long wool breeders across the hemispheres. US wool grower and spinner Lisa Westervelt, breeds the ...