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 ...

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 ...

Cathy Lambrecht, the grandmother of a student at Loveland Community Preschool, visited classes to teach the younger generation about spinning wool on Tuesday. “I think it’s important for kids to know ...

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning – the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn – is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

While knitting and crocheting remain popular past-times on the Island there aren’t too many people who hand spin their own wool into yarn to do it. Philanthropist lawyer Michelle St. Jane is the ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the northwest of Mainland, ...

About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...