MANKATO — What is it about making handmade clothes? Is it knowing that thought and care went into its creation rather than simply picking it from a store’s shelf? Or is it the pleasure of knowing that ...

When Diane Ivey brought her hand-dyed yarn to her first national trade show in 2014, she realized she was the only Black vendor in a room of more than 300 other attendees. From that moment, she ...

Kate Chiocchio started dyeing yarn after falling down the slippery slope of crafting – scrapbooking led to sewing, then quilting and knitting. When the Kensington, Maryland, woman realized she was in ...

I had a lot of fun dyeing Easter eggs this year with my family. We used a bunch of different materials and experimented to see what worked and what failed. The problem is that the eggs were destined ...

Silky skeins of merino wool dangle from a drying rack outside the sun-soaked studio. They say turn your passion into your profession. So Albuquerque artist Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd founded ZiaWoolz, a hand ...

It's easy to add color to needlework projects without complicated patterning if you use one yarn dyed with many colors. There are differences in commercial variegated yarns and those that are ...

KINGSTON — For Jason Klus, dyeing is a way to get on with his life. Klus has joined an army nationwide of “indie” dyers, independent entrepreneurs who produce hand-dyed yarns for knitters, crocheters ...

Roxanne Yeun doesn’t know precisely when she first thought to interweave art and yarn. More than a decade ago, she visited the Dalí Museum in Florida with her husband, Neville, and became curious ...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - A table is set up in the corner of the room and holds several steam pans. Another is adjacent holding plastic containers of fiber reactive dye. Although the space is not huge, ...

Capturing the raw beauty of the Pacific Northwest is no small challenge. Many artists have tried over the decades and when successful – when their art speaks to that little piece of our soul forever ...

Name: Kate Chiocchio Age: 51 Where you live: Kensington, Md. What is the one piece of equipment that you can’t live without?: “An old, ugly, small serving spoon that was part of the stainless set that ...