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 Ashford spinning wheel is a relatively recent addition at Eileen Douglas's Benambra house and its whisper is only occasionally interrupted by the pop of the 100-year-old slow combustion stove in ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- At 94, Wallace Van Eaton can still spin a good yarn. In all senses. Yes, he can tell a great anecdote. Better than that, he can actually spin wool into yarn. Best of all, he makes the ...

Nora Rubinstein loves to spin. She also loves a mystery and a challenge. The experience of taking raw fluffy wool and spinning and twisting it into yarn has been an anchor of her life for more than 35 ...

Drought keeps you watering morning and evening just to keep things alive, dried-out pastures force you to go further afield to feed animals, and mice or grasshoppers or kangaroos eat the plants or ...

If you're turning up to work bleary-eyed from staying up to watch the Tour de France, spare a thought for those hardy souls on the Tour de Fleece. Not only are they putting in the late hours, they ...