When the Knitting Circle at the Ed Brown Center for Active Adults started knitting and crocheting scarves and hats for the homeless, the members had no idea how many they would actually make. After ...

Ann Hood is a prolific and popular writer -- or was -- before the sudden death of her daughter at the age of 5. Then words eluded her entirely, month after month after month. Hood could not write. She ...

On a recent December night, a group of two dozen 20-somethings gathered at a coffee shop in Bushwick for their knitting and crochet circle. “I’m probably doing a bookmark for my dad for Christmas,” ...

The soft click-clack of knitting needles is barely audible over the chatter that fills the library of Margaret Overcash’s McLean home. She and three of her oldest friends have gathered for their ...

It was a quiet Tuesday morning a few months back when 88-­year­-old Lil Don, a longtime Oakland resident, walked into Piedmont Yarn & Apparel, sat down and started knitting. She wasn’t joining a ...