Audubon Community Nature Center is asking for donations of gently used wool and wool-blend sweaters that volunteer Ann Thorpe will transform into mittens to be sold in Audubon’s Blue Heron Gift Shop.

If you love the extra-soft and fluffy feel of freshly tumbled laundry, but you’re hesitant to use chemical-laden dryer sheets, wrinkle sprays, or liquid fabric softeners, felted wool dryer balls are ...

HORACE, N.D.--Three years ago, Renee Clasen and Carolyn Keller inherited seven bags of sweaters and fabric from a woman going out of business. They decided to turn the sweaters into mittens to give ...

Envisioning a new project that uses existing scraps will be easier when you know what you're working with. To organize your scrap stash, sort fabrics by size—so you can easily see which pieces are big ...

SIOUX CITY | There’s a narrow path cut between two heaps of old felted wool. Mary Steinhoff picks her way through the deconstructed coats and sweaters to reach her sewing machine in the middle of the ...

Jennifer Mikula (left) and Jan Wallace started making mittens out of thrift shop sweaters when they were raising funds to take part in a charity bike ride. (CBC) An unlikely business partnership ...

Tara Pearce tried using cloth nappies with her first two children. But disposables won the day. When her third child, Fergus, was about three months old she went to a workshop run by a fellow mum on ...

Designer Anuj Bhutani, 28, is busy at work at his Hauz Khas studio in New Delhi, fine-tuning designs on the drawing board. The mood board is ready, and so is the colour palette — beige, grey and black ...