Diana Wiley, Handspun Hope

June 27, 2026 1:00am 43 min

With no background in fiber but a calling to help women in need, Diana Wiley built a thriving organization on handspun yarn, needlefelted gorillas, and a holistic community for over 200 women. Stepping into the Handspun ...

Pamela K. Schultz, Spin Off

June 13, 2026 1:00am 42 min

As Spin Off nears 50 years old, editor Pamela K. Schultz sees herself as the host of a wonderful spinning party that welcomes one and all. Taking a day off from the grind of law school, Pamela Schultz visited an art fai...

Reweaving Marguerite Porter Davison’s Handweaver’s Pattern Book

May 30, 2026 1:00am 46 min

Among four-shaft weavers, A Handweaver's Pattern Book is commonly referred to by just the author’s name—Davison—or as “the green book,” a reference to the iconic cover of many of the book’s printings. Since Marguerite Po...

Kate Larson, Farm & Fiber Knits

May 16, 2026 9:00am 39 min

Editor, teacher, and shepherd Kate Larson makes the case that every knitter is already part of the farm-to-fiber story—whether they know it or not. Kate Larson is the editor of Farm & Fiber Knits and a beloved teacher o...

You Need This Book! The Yarn Barn of Kansas Required Reading List

May 10, 2026 9:00am 38 min

Book Club Podcast: Fiber art veterans Susan Bateman and Melissa Parsons compare notes with host Anne Merrow about the books every weaver, spinner, knitter, and crocheter should have on the bookshelf—plus big news about a...

Angela Tong, Multidisciplinary Maker

May 02, 2026 1:00am 51 min

Knitters and crocheters know Angela Tong as a designer with hooks and needles, while weavers recognize her work in rigid-heddle and pin looms. Visitors to galleries and artisan markets know her as a potter. Angela thinks...

Amy Sadler, Knitty

April 18, 2026 1:00am 48 min

Before Ravelry, before knitting podcasts, before the internet fully found its craft obsession, there was Knitty. Amy Sadler shares the inspiration and evolution of the online knitting phenomenon. In the early 2000s, as t...

Coming Soon: The Yarn Barn of Kansas Book Club

April 15, 2026 1:00am 2 min

What new craft books are can't-miss? Which are the classic reference books that every crafter should have on the shelf? In the Yarn Barn of Kansas Book Club, teachers and book lovers talk about the books they wouldn't be...

Curtis Gregory, George Washington Carver National Monument

April 04, 2026 1:00am 22 min

Best known for his work with peanuts, renowned agricultural scientist George Washington Carver had a lifelong passion for needlework. Park Ranger Curtis Gregory shares stories about Carver’s interests in handwork and nat...

Heather Torgenrud, Pick-Up Bandweaving

March 21, 2026 1:00am 47 min

Gudrun Johnston, The Shetland Trader

March 07, 2026 1:00am 1:02

Gudrun Johnston has a deep legacy in Shetland knitting: her father’s family comes from the islands, and her mother founded a knitwear company that blended contemporary silhouettes with Fair Isle motifs, a business she ca...

Christina Garton, Little Looms

February 21, 2026 1:00am 42 min

Christina Garton didn’t get to be the editor of Little Looms by taking weaving too seriously. First introduced to weaving in a class post-college, she joined Handwoven as assistant editor in 2011. She developed her pas...

Chick Colony, Harrisville Designs

February 07, 2026 1:00am 41 min

Small textile towns were once common in New England, with stout brick buildings harnessing the power of the region’s water to mill yarn and cloth. The Colony family had been owners of a mill in Harrisville, New Hampshire...

Jane Cooper, The Lost Flock (classic)

January 24, 2026 1:00am 1:13

The picture of a flock of primitive-breed sheep, the last of their kind, living on an island off the northeast coast of Scotland, has a certain romance to it. Plenty of knitters, spinners, fiber artists, and citizens of ...

Elena Kanagy-Loux, Lacemaker & Historian (classic)

January 10, 2026 1:00am 51 min

When you picture lace, what comes to mind: an old-fashioned once-white piece of Victorian embellishment? The elegant, possibly itchy decoration on a wedding gown? If you are a needleworker, you might picture an array of ...

Laverne Waddington, Backstrap Weaver (classic)

December 27, 2025 1:00am 51 min

Laverne Waddington discovered weaving by accident—bike accident, to be precise. Recuperating from a mountain biking crash in Utah, she discovered a book on Navajo weaving and was immediately intrigued. A local exhibit of...

Masey Kaplan & Jen Simonic, Loose Ends Project (classic)

December 13, 2025 1:00am 59 min

When Jen Simonic and Masey Kaplan’s friend lost her mother, she had the challenge of going through her mother’s things while grieving her loss. Among her posessions was something almost every crafter has at least one of:...

Amy Oxford, Oxford Punch Needle

November 29, 2025 1:00am 53 min

As a college student and weaver, Amy Oxford fell in love with the punch-needle method of rug hooking almost by accident, a surprising benefit from a babysitting gig. She followed her interest from doing piece work on exi...

Jordana Munk Martin, Tatter

November 15, 2025 1:00am 1:01

At an unexpected juncture in her life, artist Jordana Munk Martin turned to the legacy of her grandmother’s trove of textile books. Edith Wyle founded the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles in 1973, curating unconv...

Mary Anne Wise, Multicolores

November 01, 2025 1:00am 54 min

Fiber artist Mary Anne Wise first went to Guatemala hoping to collect local textiles and inspire her own practice. Just one visit wasn’t enough, and she visited several more times, eventually offering a class in rug hook...