Wool is such a beautiful and cozy fiber even after accidents with the washing machine. Shrunken wool sweaters can be upcycled into functional items like these color block mittens. It’s also a great ...

1. Take your old sweater and cut off the sleeves following the hem line. 2. Separate the sleeves and lay them flat. Place your hand on the sleeve so that your wrist hits the cuff, then use tailor’s ...

This Feb. 4, 2020 photo taken in Hopkinton, N.H., shows three pairs of handmade mittens, each constructed from sweaters using slightly different techniques. If winter is lasting longer than the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. When Marilyn Robertson first started her business making mittens out of ...

This is the time of year when kids and adults like me lose one or more of their mittens. Our pairs simply don’t match up in February the way they did in November. If you’re in that same predicament, ...

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 ...

This might be the winter that breaks me. All the cold air, snow shoveling and repeated post-plow mailbox repairs have me wishing I could turn up the sun. To survive the winter blast of 2014, I’m ...

A non-profit group in Elkhart has come up with a new use for your old sweaters. The Soup of Success program at Church Community Services is involved in a new venture to benefit the non-profit ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A certain groundhog's prediction notwithstanding, there's plenty of winter left where I live in New Hampshire. That means it's time to restock my supply of mittens, an alarming number ...

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