Just in time for summer, two publishers have released books of lace shawls. Today, I'm reviewing “Mystic Shawls” by Anna Dalvi, which came to me as an ebook from Cooperative Press. The print version ...

The original shawl is designed to be worked in six colors of fingering weight yarn, with a solid black background, although I recently saw a shawl knit in a worsted weight and was no less impressed.

WATERLOO REGION - When Maryanne Themistocleous was a young teen, her mother told her she’d never learn how to knit. She sure proved her wrong. Themistocleous taught herself how to knit and crochet at ...