Her hours will expand, however, during the Yarn Discovery Tour, which includes knitting shops throughout Northeast Ohio. The tour runs from Sept. 3-22. During that time, shoppers buy a passport and ...

I ask you, could that tortie color be any more perfect? (Courtesy Caroline Sommerfeld) I'm a big believer in buying local, especially in a town as fiber-friendly as Portland. But every so often you ...

Samantha Myrhe, owner of RavensWood Fibre Co. in Nova Scotia, Canada, began a dozen years ago with a few sheep, and her third generation of lambs was shorn this fall. She sells her yarns online and at ...

Aniqua Wilkerson and Lion Brand Yarn Company created Skein Tones, a palette of 12 acrylic yarns in neutral shades of browns, creams and taupes, in hopes of making the fiber arts more inclusive As a ...

On Dec. 28, 2019, a Twitter user took to social media to query why online retailing giant Amazon.com was selling a crochet kit from an art supplies vendor (Glokers) that included yarn products with ...

WASHINGTON -- Look closely , and you'll notice something special about the greenery at the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts community center on U Street: It's made entirely of yarn. "We wanted to ...

In Bellingham, a burgeoning community of yarn enthusiasts is helping knitters get cozy in style, hand-spinning and hand-dying yarns that stand strands and hues apart from their commercial brethren.