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 ...
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - When our crew visited Jessica Dahlgren, the owner of Lazy Bee Yarns, it was a late February afternoon. There had been an unusual reprieve from the brutality of a Nebraska winter ...
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 ...
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 ...
When I buy yarn from a yarn shop, I generally prewash the skeins. Yarns coming from unknown sources can be treated with softeners or finishing agents–these substances can have color-altering ...
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 ...
Two other unique and community-minded businesses in Chrisman include KickStand Grill at Routes 1 and 36, and a yarn shop, ...
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 ...