Is your craft room overwhelmed with large piles of yarn skeins? Discover an easy way to not only organize them but also make ...

In a country with more sheep than people, a D.I.Y. wool journey — from sheep farms to yarn shops — makes perfect sense. Our ...

You can start this week. You’re not knitting sweaters for the family, so you don’t need skeins and skeins of yarn. Instead, you need just enough to top your homemade rag doll with a shock of ...

The yarn is then reeled into bundles or skeins on a regular silk winder, being drawn from the inside of the cake. The advantage of this method of spinning the soluble cellulose, as compared with ...

Get clever with cables in Tina Barrett's autumn top, knitted in 100% natural fibres ...

Our little village has 760 souls within the city limits. If I’d moved here at 22, I’d have left within two weeks. But with ...

Then things got strange. They both dug into their bags, pulled out knitting needles and skeins of yarn and proceeded to knit. Suddenly I wasn’t in Kansas anymore. Since I was preparing a ...

After the spinning, there is plying, if you want stronger yarn. Then you're washing again, before winding the yard into skeins. As you see, there were numerous upstream and downstream processes.

And everyone will ask about your mama, too. During my daily 3-mile strolls around town, the scents of tea olives and ...

Some call them heaven hounds, as their distinctive squeals fill the skies at dusk. For others, they herald summer taking wing as autumn closes in on the Norfolk coast. Tens of thousands of geese spend ...

Essay: With a bleak salmon return this year in Northwest Alaska, a lifelong fisherman reflects on a season marked by empty nets and big questions.