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 ...

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 ...

If wool sweaters shrink in the wash, why don’t sheep shrink in the rain? Mary Scott of Suffolk knows the answer to that, and to a lot more questions about sheep, yarn, spinning, weaving and dyeing, ...

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 ...

More than 400 people attended the 32nd annual Sheep to Shawl festival Sunday in the Town of Huntington, getting a firsthand glimpse at Colonial-style shearing, women spinning wool into yarn and a ...