Andrea Rainey’s hobby store doesn’t quite fit the usual business mold. There’s the welcoming furniture just inside the entrance, hot tea and coffee for the taking in the back, and a ...

My friend Laurie brought back a clipping from a paper in Kauai (where -- lucky her! -- she'd been on vacation) with a story about Knit Knot Tree, an art project in Yellow Springs, that knit up a ...

I often receive letters requesting creative ways to use yarns left over from knitting and crochet projects. To get an idea of how much you have, which colors and which weights, sort yarns into groups.

A knitting-group discussion among friends about what the perfect yarn shop would look like turned into a business plan that resulted in a new store on the near-northside. The Hook and Needle Nook ...

I once had a stash, and one day I would like to have an entire room for my stash – of yarn, that is. Readers will find similar confessions in this knotty collection of stories written by knitters, for ...

King City's got a new yarn store, and we've got the scoop it. Sue Elder, owner of Loopy Knitters Yarn & Wine Bar, very graciously let me pester her for details on her new venture. Loopy Knitters is in ...

There’s a party going on in Millvale. Beer and conversation flow. Laughter fills the room. But these people aren’t congregating at one of the borough’s many bars. They’re hanging out at McWalker Yarns ...