The Mainely Spinners transform a live sheep's fleece into a sweater in one day, raising funds for cancer patients while ...

The act of knitting a sweater from wool yarn isn't that uncommon, but a team of fiber artists in Milford have taken it to the ...

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, ...

Each team is made up of one sheep and five people: one shearer, three spinners, and a weaver. The team has three hours to shear the sheep, card the wool, spin the wool into yarn, and then weave that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sheep are losing their winter wool at Chester County Parks and Preservation’s annual Sheep & Wool Day, held at Springton Manor Farm in Glenmoore on Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The ...