During the chilly winter months, many people find comfort with fiber arts. Whether knitting, crocheting or weaving, yarn is a hot commodity this time of year. For some locals, using the yarn isn’t ...

Sheep farmer Annie Hopper had so much wool piling up in her barn that she was using it to insulate her chicken coop. Katie Sullivan had a truck, expertise and an idea. The two met at a pasture ...

Black Sheep Yarn Shop in Timonium is always abuzz with activity. Not only are there classes offered, but people often just drop in to sit at the “knitting table” and work and talk. Owner Donna Wiener ...

UHRICHSVILLE Wool from local sheep is being turned into yarn that is being offered for sale worldwide from a downtown store. Pindrop Shop owner Jessica Zontini and friend Laura Gray have started their ...

The trail launched in 2018 as a way to connect fiber artists with Kentucky-based farms, agritourism, retailers, dyers and events. Over the past five years, the memberships have boomed into an online ...

The Wolcott Mill Fiber Fair on March 30 was an opportunity for people to see the entire process of making wool into yarn. Beginning with the shearing of the sheep, to spinning the yarn and creating ...

Ina Mae was born in North Haven, Maine, of hardy English stock. At the time our lives intersected, she and I were both in early middle age. I was an inveterate knitter. She was a sheep. Though I have ...

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

Polka Dot Sheep Fine Yarns is housed in a new building in the same location, 14 Lupfer Avenue in Whitefish. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Aimee Alexander at Polka Dot Sheep Fine Yarns in Whitefish ...

Welcome to Naked Sheep Yarn Barn! Looking for the best crocheting and knitting accessories around? Look no farther than the Naked Sheep Yarn Barn! We carry specialty yarns in both natural and man-made ...

SHEBOYGAN — The Lost Sheep Yarn Shop, 808 Pennsylvania Ave., will close after about seven years downtown. But a new owner is taking over the business. The yarn shop’s last day open will be Feb. 10, ...