The traditional and ubiquitous granny square ... yarns,” says Eckman. Crocheters and knitters have long argued about which medium is superior. Eckman, who does both, sees each craft’s charms.

A facade for the Craft and Folk Art ... A granny square is a staple of the knitter’s art -- a small textile patch, often made from leftover yarn, that requires only modest skill to execute.

If you spent any time in Pioneer Square’s Occidental Park last summer ... The trend—known as “yarn bombing”—is happening nationally, with avant-garde crafters knitting thousands of rows with which to ...

Here are nine more good causes that are recruiting yarn crafters, suggested by our readers. In 1995, Karen Loucks read about a three-year-old who went through chemotherapy with the help of her ...

FOND DU LAC - The drop-in Yarn Crafters group will meet at 6 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 8 and 22, at the Fond du Lac Public Library, 32 Sheboygan St. Started by needle arts enthusiast Jan Stoegbauer ...

Yarn crafters are a generous group: in 2000, images of penguins wearing sweaters to help them recover from an oil spill prompted knitters all over the world to donate handmade penguin sweaters to ...