About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...

When Donna Putnam began raising border collies and training them to herd sheep, she would often come home with wool scraps. Putnam decided to take a spinning class to learn how to use the scraps to ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

Raising sheep for wool is a fun and satisfying experience. The market for wool and wool-products continues to grow as people are eager to learn skills such as felting, spinning, rug-making, weaving, ...

Susan Withnell is an artist living in Westminster. Withnell could not draw or paint, so she thought she was not artistic. She started quilting in her 30s and realized that she had a good eye for color ...

Much of Montana’s wool still leaves the state before it is ever turned into yarn, fabric, or finished products.

When the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival happens in May, it typically shuts down Interstate 70 as the cars stack up, waiting to get off at the Howard County Fairgrounds. But Maryland wool, and the ...

PUTNEY — In 1980, Claire Wilson, a soft-spoken Quaker now in her 90s and still living in Putney, met in a study group of 12 or so folks at the home of Paul and Dorothea Stockwell in West Brattleboro.

When we visit Joseph Njoroge in Nyandarua, he is busy assessing things at his father’s expansive 80-acre farm. Here, 200 flock of the corriedale sheep roam freely. Corriedale sheep are a dual-purpose ...

GLENMOORE — The sheep are losing their winter wool, and you’re invited to the shearing! Chester County Parks + Preservation’s annual Sheep & Wool Day will be held on Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m.