BEGINNING knitters, seize the moment: Runways from New York to Paris have been filled with scarves made of yarn as thick as your thumb, chunky cardigans and wraps, fat cables woven into jackets. The ...

Looking around the room at her first-ever Dragon Knits gathering, Litchfield resident Anne Ross was delighted. “Look around,” she whispered sprightly. “Different people are helping different people.

With declining temperatures, a local volunteer group in Grand Junction is stitching together warmth and community support—one ...

When Ilse Hylton was a child in Germany during World War II, spinning was a necessity, and knitting was a chore. Her grandmother taught her how to spin wool from the family's sheep and stitch her own ...

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