After brushing the billowy, thick white fur of her Angora rabbit Mollie, Karen Lamb feeds strands of fur into a spinning wheel, pinching every few seconds to create an even mound of yarn on a cylinder ...
Over Halloween weekend, the front display window of Vera’s Treasures in Honokaa could have been called Knitters Delight. There were vibrantly colored yarns made from sheep wool, a spinning wheel, and ...
Looks like it's the wooly season. I recently wrote about Edith Fisher, who has alpacas on her Wooly Works Farm and sells alpaca fiber and products at her Wooly Works Knit Shop in downtown Colorado ...
On a recent afternoon, passerby could have looked into Holly Zimmerman’s backyard in Prior Lake and seen her gently brushing what looked suspiciously like a large white feather duster. If he or she ...
T Squared Rabbitry's Tarah Nyberg gave a one-hour class Thursday morning on the how-to's of harvesting and spinning of Angora rabbit wool. The Angora rabbit is one of the oldest domestic rabbits. They ...
Karen Lamb, of Dallas, has been spinning angora rabbit fur at the Willamette Heritage Center's Sheep to Shawl event for roughly 20 years. She learned about fiber spinning 25 years ago and taught ...