For those with two left thumbs, fiber arts might seem like an impossible craft. Crocheting, knitting, sewing, embroidering, weaving and quilting all require a certain degree of hand-eye coordination.
Affordable and readily available, Red Heart is the yarn brand that many knitters, including me, used the first time we picked up a pair of needles. I was surprised to see a pitch from them land in my ...
MANKATO — What is it about making handmade clothes? Is it knowing that thought and care went into its creation rather than simply picking it from a store’s shelf? Or is it the pleasure of knowing that ...
Barb Day’s grandmother taught her to knit when she was 8 years old. But knitting didn’t become a hobby until she had a major life event. “I didn’t really start knitting consistently until I had twin ...
Parkour Kitties Fibers claims to be one of the first hand-dyed yarn businesses in Singapore Mentioning “parkour” to anyone generally evokes a mental image of a particularly athletic individual, ...
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 ...