Most people have seen colorful skeins of yarn lining the shelves in craft and retail stores, their brilliant colors eye-catching, their textures soft, warm and inviting. Maybe some people reading this ...

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Rue Toland has been spinning yarn for over 20 years. It wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and make homemade yarn. Sign up for the Concord Monitor's ...

It began when Debbie McDermott allowed her daughter Jamie to raise two sheep for a 4-H project. Eventually, her 165-year-old farm was transformed into a successful, family-run, custom fiber processing ...

Her shop at 318 N. Main St. in downtown Bloomington has the gamut of yarn styles and materials, plus knitting and crocheting accessories. Also displayed are sample items of her stringed creations, but ...