Yarn crafting is a favorite pastime enjoyed by a substantial number of individuals. Nonetheless, winding yarn by hand can be tedious and cause irritation. In these instances, a yarn ball winder proves ...

What’s a weasel? It’s an animal, of course, but in some parts of Montana you might put weasels on your ice cream, because some Montanans call M&Ms “weasels.” And in the 1700s, when the nursery rhyme ...

Question: My mother bought this unusual wooden object when an Ocean City storage company went out of business some years ago. Sold as a "skein winder," she believed it was used by knitters but never ...

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 ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. If you’ve ever knitted, weaved, crocheted, or done needlepoint, you know not all yarns are created ...

I bet you pictured a monkey and a weasel chasing each other as you read this well-known ditty, but you’ll be surprised to learn this rhyme is not about animals at all. It was recited by children as ...

STROMSBURG, Neb. (KOLN) - The owner of a Stromsburg business is offering important services to small producers with Nebraska’s only custom wool mill. 10/11 met with Kelsey Quandt, who is the owner The ...

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Blue Hen Blankets & Yarn, established in 2009, are made from wool shorn from the University of Delaware’s flock of Dorset sheep at the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Wool is a natural, ...