Where Your Yarn Grows
Before natural-fiber yarn reaches your needles, yarn shop, and even the mill, it starts on a farm. At Wing & A Prayer Farm, producing beautiful wool is partnership between shepherd, sheep, and land.
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Before natural-fiber yarn reaches your needles, yarn shop, and even the mill, it starts on a farm. At Wing & A Prayer Farm, producing beautiful wool is partnership between shepherd, sheep, and land.
Season 10, Episode 3: Behind the camera or behind the needles, Gale Zucker loves to tell the stories of the fiber world.
Just because a technique is easy doesn’t mean it can’t be spectacular. Behold the versatile eyelet!
Producing wool, cotton, and wheat doesn’t have to deplete the earth and consume groundwater. Sally Fox is using her hard-won organic farming wisdom to produce excellent fiber that enriches the soil.
Your favorite articles and patterns from the first year—plus one you might have missed
Season 10, Episode 2: With a passion for rich, beautiful color and slow fiber, Emily Lymm uses natural dyes to create a more sustainable craft world.
Drawing on her love of Estonian culture and knitting, Nancy Bush designed a pair of geometric socks based on a historic stocking. The new version features expanded sizing and naturally durable yarn.
Whether we’re choosing untreated wool for its texture, sustainability, or other qualities, “non-superwash” yarns are a must-have for many knitters.
A shepherd with a small flock helps other small farms turn their unused fleeces into gorgeous yarns.
Full of questions and seeing a need among her rural neighbors, a local yarn store owner followed her love for fiber to new heights.
The Rustic Colorwork Hat is the perfect project to test your tension.
The annual shopping event presents a golden opportunity to shop for what you really want . . . and skip the rest.