Yarn crafting is a favorite pastime enjoyed by a substantial number of individuals. Nonetheless, winding yarn by hand can be tedious and cause irritation. In these instances, a yarn ball winder proves ...

If you love knitting, you're bound to have lots of half balls of yarn in your craft stash. We've got the perfect solution: make them into yarn cakes. What are yarn cakes? They're tightly wound balls ...

Spinning and weaving is a popular hobby right now. Some people are even trying to use old methods and old tools to design their modern creations. Natural dyes can be made from onion skins (orange), ...

Q: What’s the value of my standing yarn winder which I think is around 200 years old? A: In olden days, after yarn was spun on spinning wheels, it needed to be wound for easy use. As a result, ...

The Leffingwell House Museum recently received the gift of a spinners weasel or a clock reel. A Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with ...

I bet you pictured a monkey and a weasel chasing each other as you read this well-known ditty, but you’ll be surprised to learn this rhyme is not about animals at all. It was recited by children as ...

What's a weasel? It's an animal, of course, but in some parts of Montana you might put weasels on your ice cream - because some Montanans call M&Ms "weasels." And in the 1700s, when the nursery rhyme ...