Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...

The Mainely Spinners will be competing in the International Back to Back Wool Challenge on Saturday, Jan. 17 starting at 8 a.

Indiana is home to roughly 2,000 sheep farms and over 50,000 head of sheep, making the state number 28 for sheep production in the U.S. Even with Indiana’s bountiful flocks, however, it’s unlikely you ...

BEAVER VALLEY — It is a crisp February morning and Jennie Watkins is standing in the old barn on her 10-acre farm off Beaver Valley Road. An avid hand spinner and knitter, she is looking over her ...

Imagine running your fingers through long, lustrous locks. It's a sensual experience and it's uniting long wool breeders across the hemispheres. US wool grower and spinner Lisa Westervelt, breeds 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, ...