When our crew visited Jessica Dahlgren, the owner of Lazy Bee Yarns, it was a late February afternoon. Inside her studio, ...

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 ...

Hand knitters salivate over the rich colors and tonal shifts of hand-dyed yarns. “Hand dyes turn even simple stitches into something special,” says Alexandra Parks, founder of Dashing Mouse Designs.

When Diane Ivey brought her hand-dyed yarn to her first national trade show in 2014, she realized she was the only Black vendor in a room of more than 300 other attendees. From that moment, she ...

I had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs this year with my family. We used a bunch of different materials and experimented to see what worked and what failed. The problem is that the eggs were destined ...

Yarn enthusiast Michelle Thymmons has compiled a list of popular Instagram yarn dyers across North America and Europe on her website www.vamicreations.com. They include a multi-generational family at ...

Founded ten years ago by Candace English, The Farmer’s Daughter Fibers (website) began as a leap of faith fueled by a love of ...

Name: Kate Chiocchio Age: 51 Where you live: Kensington, Md. What is the one piece of equipment that you can’t live without?: “An old, ugly, small serving spoon that was part of the stainless set that ...

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 ...

For many fiberholics, knitting is like a gateway craft. The addiction usually starts with an innocent purchase of a pretty ball of yarn and a pair of needles or maybe a freebie starter kit from an ...