Just as the economy was put on life support late last year, Lion Brand Yarn, an American company with a 130-year history, decided the time was finally right to open its first retail outlet, a flagship ...

CROMWELL -- Rebecca Bayreuther Donahue, vice president and longtime volunteer at the Cromwell Historical Society, has successfully combined her love of history with her love of knitting. She recently ...

A 1950s swimming costume, sagging with brine; a Scandi noir detective in her workwear; a showbiz gossip column reporting Russell Crowe’s fondness for the needles. The history of knitting is a tangled ...

CLEAR LAKE — Carol Rye will present the “History of Knitting” for a Second Saturday event from 1-2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at the Clear Lake Arts Center. Learn about the earliest forms and uses of ...

The Luzerne Knitting Mills was a major business in the Garden Village for many years beginning in the last part of the nineteenth century and its buildings are still standing at 108 Delaware Avenue.

Recommendations from New Yorker writers and artists for this time of social distancing. Knitting isn’t just a way to pass the time that’s not spent reading news about the apocalypse—it’s an activity ...