4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

Children quietly sat and watched as Karen Fricke spun yarn from animal fiber using a drop spindle at Double D Farm Alpacas in Isabella County Saturday afternoon. Fricke, of Perrinton, explained that ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Sheep and knowledge are the gifts that keep on giving for spinners who turn wool into yarn at the Dutchess County Fair, where a craft that arrived in the community hundreds of years ...

Since its founding in the mid-1980s, the Berkshire Hills & Dales Spinners Guild has been meeting once a week to play with fiber. Some card, some spin, and some knit. Enjoying the chance to socialize ...

A hobby farm near Frazee, Minn., came first, followed by a flock of sheep. Then Audrey Kloubec wanted to do something with the animals she and her husband, Richard, a former North Dakota legislator, ...

Kentwool has been spinning wool into luxury yarn for five generations — 179 years. For almost seven decades, the yarn has been manufactured in Pickens. Yet many people don’t realize that Kentwool is ...

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Jessica Wolfe carefully untangled, smoothed out and fluffed up a small clump of light brown, tan and black wool as she prepared it to be spun into yarn. Jessica, a fifth grader at ...

Elk Mountain Equine Sanctuary presented a spinning wheel demonstration Friday for the senior clients at Telespond Senior Services in Scranton. The sanctuary brought three lambs to the center to show ...

Heidi Fortsch has a naturally sunny personality, but get her started on yarn or wool, and she positively glows. "I love wool" she gushes. "It’s... Apr 26, 2019 — Heidi Fortsch has a naturally sunny ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Deb McDermott blames her daughter for ruining a perfectly ...