The names of the yarns hand-dyed by Ellyn Cooper have elegant, poetic names: Luna, Moon Beam, Baroque Pearls, Mikado. Their colors are gorgeous and one-of-a-kind. And because hand-dying yarn is labor ...
MANKATO — What is it about making handmade clothes? Is it knowing that thought and care went into its creation rather than simply picking it from a store’s shelf? Or is it the pleasure of knowing that ...
KINGSTON — For Jason Klus, dyeing is a way to get on with his life. Klus has joined an army nationwide of “indie” dyers, independent entrepreneurs who produce hand-dyed yarns for knitters, crocheters ...
When our crew visited Jessica Dahlgren, the owner of Lazy Bee Yarns, it was a late February afternoon. Inside her studio, ...
Silky skeins of merino wool dangle from a drying rack outside the sun-soaked studio. They say turn your passion into your profession. So Albuquerque artist Dagmar Beinenz-Byrd founded ZiaWoolz, a hand ...
When Diane Ivey brought her hand-dyed yarn to her first national trade show in 2014, she realized she was the only Black vendor in a room of more than 300 other attendees. From that moment, she ...